Robi has launched its premium e-ticketing platform bdtickets.com. This customer-centric platform provides the customers the convenience of purchasing bus ticket without having to brave the notorious city traffic around the country. bdtickets.com starts with offering bus tickets for the moment. It will soon be incorporating many other ticketing solutions.
bdtickets.com- the online ticketing solution, offers the user with option to buy bus tickets from 
The portal offers a list of available buses once a user selects a route. The user then selects the date of travelling, the departure and destination point & the bus they want to travel on and then proceeds to make payment using their debit/ credit card/ bKash account. In just a few clicks, one can purchase bus tickets from anywhere with utmost convenience. An SMS is sent to the user once the purchase is confirmed. This SMS has the reference number along with other ticket related information. One can just board the bus showing this SMS.
In case one wants to cancel the purchased ticket, all he/ she needs to do is to click on the cancellation link provided on the portal. Following an easy registration process, one needs to enter one’s ticket number and the PIN number that was provided at the time of purchasing the ticket and then click on cancel ticket.
Robi’s Chief Corporate and People Officer Matiul Islam Nowshad; Head of Robi’s Digital Services Mohammad Manzur Rahman; Navankur Sood, Head of Carrier Business of Spice Digital; Rezwanul Haque Jami, Country Manager, Spice Digital along with the representatives of the partnering bus companies were present at the launching ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion Robi’s MD & CEO Supun Weerasinghe said that: “We are very happy to be adding the online ticket purchasing platform into our rich portfolio of innovative digital services. Robi is very confident that our valued subscribers will find bdticket.com to be solving an age-old problem of buying bus tickets especially before the Eid festivals when the entire country goes back to its roots using mostly buses. A hassle-free online bus ticket purchasing solution is Robi’s special gift to its valued subscribers for the upcoming Eid. I would like to thank the partnering bus companies for being part of this great initiative.”
About Robi Axiata Ltd:
Robi Axiata Limited is a joint venture between Axiata Group Berhad, of Malaysia and NTT DoCoMo Inc., of Japan. Robi is the second largest mobile phone operator in Bangladesh in terms of revenue, with over 26 million subscribers, as of March 2015. Robi network provides nationwide coverage to nearly 99% of the population with more than 11,700 BTS and over 2,400 3.5G sites. Robi proudly claims to have the widest international roaming service in the market, connecting 600 operators across more than 200 countries. It is also the first operator to introduce GPRS and 3.5G services in Bangladesh. The Company has introduced many first of its kind digital services in the country and has invested heavily in taking mobile financial services to the underserved communities in the rural and semi-urban areas.