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Grameenphone (Bengali: গ্রামীণফোন Graminfon) is a GSM-based cellular operator in Bangladesh and market leader[5] with more than 50% of the Bangladeshi market share. Grameenphone started operations on March 26, 1997. It is partly owned by Telenor (62%) and Grameen Telecom (38%). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bengali: ḌhÄkÄ; IPA: ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District. ...
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Grameenphone is the largest mobile phone company in Bangladesh with more than 10 million customers as of December 2006.[6] It is also the fastest growing cellular telephone network in Bangladesh. At the end of 2005, it had about 3500 base stations around the country with plans to add about 500 in the following six months. Grameenphone's stated goal is to provide cost-effective and quality cellular services in Bangladesh. Look up December in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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On the 16th of November 2006 GP formally changed its logo to match its parent company Telenor's logo. According to GP the new logo symbolizes trust, reliability, quality and constant progress. The name Grameenphone will be kept as part of the new identity. The name Grameenphone carries with it all of the heritage, success and values of our past, added the Grameenphone CEO Erik Aas. Telenor (OSE: TEL, NASDAQ: TELN) is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. ...
History The idea of providing wider mobile phone access to rural areas was originally conceived by Iqbal Quadir, who is currently the founding director of the Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship at MIT.[7] He was inspired by the Grameen Bank microcredit model and envisioned a business model where a cell phone can serve as a source of income. After leaving his job as an investment banker in the United States, Quadir travelled back to Bangladesh, after meeting and succefully raising money from New York based investor and philantropist Joshua Mailman, and worked for three years gaining support from various organizations including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus of Grameen Bank and the Norwegian telephone company, Telenor.[8] He was finally successful in forming a consortium with Telenor and GrameenBank to establish Grameenphone. Quadir remained a shareholder of Grameenphone until 2004. Iqbal Z. Quadir (born August 13, 1958 in Jessore, Bangladesh), founder of Gonofone and GrameenPhone, is currently the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Program in Development Entrepreneurship, Senior Research Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s...
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Grameenphone received a license for cellular phone operation in Bangladesh from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on November 28, 1996. Grameenphone started operations on March 26, 1997, the Independence Day in Bangladesh. To licence or grant licence is to give permission. ...
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Grameenphone originally offered a mobile-to-mobile connectivity (widely known as GP-GP connection), which created a lot of enthusiasm among the users. It became the first operator to reach the million subscriber milestone as well as ten million subscriber milestone in Bangladesh. A Spanish kilometre stone A milestone on the Boston Post Road in Harvard Square, Massachusetts, USA Slate milestone near Bangor, Wales A milestone or kilometre sign is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in...
Numbering Scheme Grameenphone uses the following numbering scheme for its subscribers
+88 017 N1N2N3N4N5N6N7N8
where the first 880 is the International Subscriber Dialling Code for Bangladesh and is needed only in case of dialling from outside Bangladesh. International Subscriber Dialling (ISD) is the term used in India to describe an outgoing international telephone call. ...
17 is the prefix for Grameenphone as allocated by the government of Bangladesh. Omitting +880 will require to use 0 in place of it instead to represent local call, hence 017 is the general prefix.
The number N1 to N8 is the subscriber number.
Products Offered
 A Grameenphone SIM as delivered
The SIM to as installed into a phone Grameenphone offers subscription in two categories, Prepaid Subscription and Postpaid Subscription. Image File history File links GP_SIM_FULL.jpg‎ A card with GrameenPhone SIM. Image taken with Nokia6020 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): GrameenPhone ...
Image File history File links GP_SIM_FULL.jpg‎ A card with GrameenPhone SIM. Image taken with Nokia6020 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): GrameenPhone ...
Image File history File links GP_SIM.jpg‎ A Typical GrameenPhone SIM. Image taken with Nokia6020. ...
Image File history File links GP_SIM.jpg‎ A Typical GrameenPhone SIM. Image taken with Nokia6020. ...
Prepaid subscriptions are sub-divided into three plans:
- smile (mobile to mobile connectivity within Bangladesh),
- smile PSTN (nationwide and international mobile and land line connectivity)
- djuice (a youth based mobile to mobile connectivity within Bangladesh).
Postpaid subscription are sub-divided into two plans: djuice (short of digital juice) is a youth based mobile phone plan from Telenor. ...
- xplore Package 1 (nationwide and international mobile and landline connectivity)
- xplore Package 2 (nationwide and international mobile and landline connectivity)
Grameenphone also offers different value-added services including SMS, MMS, Welcome Tunes (Ringback Tones), Voice SMS, SMS Push-Pull Service, Voice Mail Service (VMS), and Fax and Data among others. Grameenphone was the first mobile operator in Bangladesh to offer EDGE services to its subscribers. SMS may refer to: Short message service, a form of text messaging on cell phones Sega Master System – an 8-bit video game console from the 1980s Seiner Majestät Schiff, His Majestys Ship in the German Kaiserliche Marine and the Austro-Hungarian Navy SMS (comics), a British comic...
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Other Activities
Village Phone With the help of Grameenphone, Grameen Telecom operates the national Village Phone programme, alongside its own parent Grameen Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), acting as the sole provider of telecommunications services to a number of rural areas. Most Village Phone participants are women living in remote areas. Village Phone works as an owner-operated GSM payphone whereby a borrower takes a BDT 12,000 (USD 200) loan from Grameen Bank to subscribe to GP (Grameenphone) and is then trained on how to operate it and how to charge others to use it at a profit. As in September 2006, there are more than 255,000 Village Phones in operation in 55,000 villages around Bangladesh. This program has been replicated also in some other countries including in Uganda and Rwanda in Africa.[9] The Village Phone (Bengali: Polli Fon) programme is a unique initiative of Grameen Telecom, one of the largest telecommunication service providers in Bangladesh. ...
The Grameen Bank (Bangla: গà§à¦°à¦¾à¦®à§€à¦£ বà§à¦¯à¦¾à¦‚ক) is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit) to the impoverished without requiring collateral. ...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries as a way to reduce poverty and improve peoples lives. ...
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Community Information Centre Community Information Centre (CIC) or GPCIC is aimed at providing internet access and other communications services to rural areas. Since February 2006 26 CICs have been established across the country as a pilot project.[10] In this project, Grameenphone provides GSM/EDGE/GPRS infrastructure and technical support and other partners Grameen Telecom Corporation and Society for Economic and Basic Advancement (SEBA), are involved in selecting and training entrepreneurs to run the village centers. The computers in these centers in the pilot project are used by an average of 30 people a day, who pay a small fee to access email or Web pages.[11] These CICs are used for a wide variety of business and personal purposes, from accessing health and agricultural information to using government services to video conferencing with relatives overseas. Grameenphone also trains the entrepreneurs so that they can give people advice on how to set up an e-mail account and best make use of the Internet. Communication is a process that allows beings - in particular humans - to exchange information by several methods. ...
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ...
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CIC project is giving up to 20 million people the chance to use the Internet and e-mail for the first time. Following a successful pilot project, Grameenphone is going to set up approximately 500 centres in communities throughout Bangladesh by the end of 2006. The centres will be located in each Upazila (sub-district) of Bangladesh. As a result, up to 15 villages containing up to 40,000 people will be within reach of each CIC. In this information center, there will be personal computers connected to Grameenphone's existing GSM mobile network, which has been upgraded with EDGE technology to offer data transfer speeds of up to 16 kilobytes per second.[12] This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Upazila also known as Sub-District. ...
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ...
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) or Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), is a digital mobile phone technology that allows it to increase data transmission rate and improve data transmission reliability. ...
Grameenphone Center Grameenphone centers serve as a "one stop solution" for customers, with all telecommunications products and services, under a single roof. GP Centers also sell phones from vendors like Nokia, Samsung and Benq. EDGE/GPRS modems and accessories such chargers and headphones are also sold at GPC's. As of May, 2007 there are 56[13] GPC's and they are strategically located at all major locations of the country. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 309 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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Dhanmondi is a major thana and neighbourhood of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. ...
Dhaka (previously Dacca; Bengali: ḌhÄkÄ; IPA: ) is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka District. ...
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Criticism Although Grameenphone is the leading Mobile Company in Bangladesh, it has established a monopoly market in the country. General customers allege that GP is not reducing its call rate, rather it is trying to grip the market in the name of different promotions. Every promotion of GP aims at either attracting new customers or retaliating promotions offered by other companies. Reduced rate facilities are often followed by different conditions, which does not always serve the interest of the majority customers. While the customer service of Grameenphone is good, but the call rate of helpline is higher than the normal call rate, whwreas customer service is toll free in many other countries. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Now a days Grameenphone is focusing only on prepaid packages as the call rate of postpaid is higher than prepaid (in some cases), though postpaid users have to pay a considerable amount of money as line rent.
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