GrameenPhone
Grameen Phone is a GSM-based mobile phone company in Bangladesh. It started operations there on March 26, 1997. It is partly owned by Norway Telecom and Grameen Bank.
Literally 'Village Phone', the scheme provides a mobile phone to villages without access to fixed land lines. This mobile phone is then cared for by a woman in the village, who charges for the use of the phone and pays a proportion back to Grameen Phone. According to the company, women have been chosen because they have turned out to be more reliable than the men.
Primarily the phone is used for obtaining crop prices and communicating with other villages.
As of 2005, Grameen Phone is the largest mobile phone company in Bangladesh, with close to 4 million subscribers.
Recently, it has initiated EDGE connectivity service for its subscribers.
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