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. Not to be confused with Get Some Mates The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Grameen Bank Building, Dhaka The Grameen Bank is a microcredit organization that started in Bangladesh, which makes small loans to the impoverished without requiring collateral. ...
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. 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Recently, it has initiated EDGE connectivity service for its subscribers.
Thursdays you'll often find me at the Walker Art Center, cell phone at my ear, wandering from exhibit to exhibit and occasionally punching in digits as I stare at the works of art.
Was at the Sony Style store the other day and saw the T-series VAIO -- they had it sitting atop a stack of books and, whoah, it looked like just another book.
And Stowe Boyd at Corante actually did post a screenshot.) But it appears to be a location-based social networking thingie that guesses where you are based on WiFi signals and tries to find other folks around you who match your profile.
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