Mobile phone company Sheba Telecom plans to double the number of its subscribers from existing nearly 35,000 through its ongoing World Cup special package.

Jefri Ahmed Tambi, managing director of the company, disclosed this at a briefing session in the city yesterday organised for Dealers and Agents Shop Decoration contest.

The objective of the decoration contest is to make the Sheba deal-

ers and agents outlets festive and attractive to woo customers during the World Cup package period, officials said.

Jefri Ahmed Tambi urged the dealers and agents to work hard to achieve the target of the company through the contest, duration of which will be three starting from this month.

The contest will surely help increase the subscriber-base of the company, said Shakil Wahed, managing director of Lipro

Communication, distributor of Sheba Telecom.

The World Cup special package of Sheba Telecom offers a cell phone at Tk 12,250.

In the decoration contest, the first prize will comprise cash money of TK 25,000 and three Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka air tickets while the second prize will be cash money of TK 20,000 and two Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur-Dhaka air tickets. The third prize will be cash money of TK 15,000 and one Dhaka-Kuala

Lumpur-Dhaka air ticket.

Sheba introduced short message service (SMS) on Saturday. Every outgoing SMS will cost TK two.

At present, the cell phone company covers Dhaka, Narayanganj, and Gazipur districts. It will cover Chittagong and Sylhet by August and Khulna, Barisal, Manikganj, Tangail and Bogra by October this year.