Rule card · Bangladesh
Keep your Robi number active while abroad
Keep a Robi prepaid number active abroad: unused 11 months (330 unused days) then 30 or 90 days' notice. That recycle page is not Grameenphone's 60-day suspend.
Checked against official pages on September 29, 2026. Rules move; when this one does, it goes on the changelog.
Rule at a glance
prepaid accounts only- If you do nothing
- Recycle page. Unused 11 months will be recycled. FAQ prints 11th Months (330 unused days) then 30 Days or 90 Days' notice as applicable
- Cheapest way to hold it
- unverified as a published Robi validity table. The page we opened is a recycle search
- Roaming needed to receive codes abroad
- Unverified (The recycle page is an unused-number rule. Whether inbound texts while abroad reset that unused count is unverified)
- Twelve months away, roughly
- unverified as a published annual retention charge
Keep a Robi prepaid number active abroad on the recycle page's 11 months. That page also prints 330 unused days and a 30 or 90 day notice. It is a recycle search, not a validity table.
11th Months, 330 unused days, then notice
Robi's recycled-numbers page, WebFetch on 29 September 2026, states: "As per BTRC’s policy, Robi numbers unused for 11 months will be recycled." That is the keep-abroad clock this card draws. It is not Grameenphone recharge validity of 30, 60 or 365 days.
The FAQ on that page states: "As per Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission’s Directive, any robi number that is unused for 11th Months (330 unused days) continuously, can be recycled and used for re-selling with 30 Days or 90 Days’ notice period (as applicable)." Robi prepaid unused 330 days is printed with 11th Months. Day 330 on this card is that printed figure. It is not a conversion we did from 11 months.
The next sentence on that FAQ is the reclaim: "However, existing customer, if wished, can reclaim his/her number back within 30 days or 90 days (as applicable) of notice period." This card does not invent which of those two notice lengths applies to a given line.
Daily Star's 11 months is not Grameenphone's matrix
The Daily Star of 18 December 2024, WebFetch on 29 September 2026, states: "Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has shortened the recycling period for inactive SIM cards from 18 months to 12 months in a bid to address a shortage of mobile numbers available in the country." The same article states: "The new directive mandates 11 months of inactivity, followed by a 30-day notice period before operators can recycle the unused numbers." That is the unused-SIM recycle of 11 months then a 30-day notice, as that article printed it. Shahed Alam, chief corporate and regulatory officer of Robi Axiata, is quoted there: "We welcome the decision to reduce the retention period for unused SIMs from 540 days to 360 days." Those 540 and 360 stay on that newspaper.
Grameenphone's recharge matrix sells 30, 60 or 365 days of main-account validity, then a 60-day incoming-only suspend. That 60 is not this unused-11-months file. The Bangladesh country page keeps the recycle floor and the recharge table as two documents.
A WebFetch of btrc.gov.bd on 29 September 2026 returned news and meeting notes, not a prepaid inactivity day count. A BTRC-hosted PDF of the 17 November 2024 guideline was not opened on btrc.gov.bd that day.
Before you fly
- Count unused 11 months on the recycle page, printed there also as 330 unused days.
- Notice after that is 30 Days or 90 Days as applicable. The next FAQ sentence says an existing customer can reclaim inside that notice.
- Daily Star of 18 December 2024 prints 11 months then a 30-day notice as the BTRC story.
- Grameenphone's 60-day matrix suspend is not this file.
- Whether inbound texts while abroad reset the unused count is unverified.