Rule card · Bangladesh
Keep your Robi number active while abroad
Keep a Robi prepaid number active abroad. Unused 11 months, also written as 330 days, then a notice of 30 or 90 days. This is not Grameenphone's 60-day suspend.
Checked against official pages on October 9, 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, the number will be recycled. The FAQ also writes 11th Months (330 unused days), then a notice of 30 or 90 days as applicable
- Cheapest way to hold it
- unverified as a published Robi validity table. The recycle page is a number search, not a recharge table
- 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. A number unused for 11 months will be recycled. That page also writes the stretch as 330 unused days, then a notice of 30 or 90 days. It is a recycle search, not Grameenphone's recharge table.
11th Months, 330 unused days, then notice
Robi's recycled-numbers page says numbers unused for 11 months will be recycled. That is the clock for keeping the number. 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)." The 330 days are that sentence. They are not a conversion from 11 months done on this card.
The next sentence on that FAQ says an existing customer can reclaim the number within the notice, 30 days or 90 days as applicable. The page names both lengths.
Daily Star's 11 months is not Grameenphone's matrix
The Daily Star of 18 December 2024 states: "The new directive mandates 11 months of inactivity, followed by a 30-day notice period before operators can recycle the unused numbers." The same article says the commission shortened inactive-SIM recycling from 18 months to 12 months. Shahed Alam, chief corporate and regulatory officer of Robi Axiata, is quoted there welcoming a cut from 540 days to 360 days. Those pairs are that newspaper's account.
Grameenphone's recharge matrix sells 30, 60 or 365 days of main-account validity, then may suspend for 60 days with incoming calls and SMS only. That 60 is not this unused-11-months file. The Bangladesh country page keeps the recycle and the recharge table as two documents.
We could not open the BTRC site on 9 October 2026. Use this Robi page and the Daily Star article for the day count.
Before you fly
- Count unused 11 months on the recycle page. The FAQ also writes that as 330 unused days.
- Notice after that is 30 days or 90 days as applicable. An existing customer can reclaim inside that notice.
- The Daily Star of 18 December 2024 states 11 months and then a 30-day notice.
- Grameenphone's 60-day matrix suspend is not this file.
- Whether inbound texts while abroad reset the unused count is unverified.