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Grameen Phone "Village Phone" project

By _Alex Bloom
Created Nov 28 2005 - 12:17
Managing Organization: Grameen Phone

Managing Organization URL:
grameenphone.com [0]



Grameen Phone "Village Phone" project

Contact Email: insta.service@grameenphone.com

Contact Phone: corporate sales: +880-2-9882990; fax: 9882948, 9882949, 9882950 & 9882951

Contact Address: Customer Communication, Customer Relations Division, GrameenPhone Ltd., Celebration Point, Road # 113/A, Plot # 3&5, Gulshan-2, Dhaka-1212


Activity URL:
grameenphone.com [0]


Affiliated Organizations: Grameen Bank Grameen Phone Grameen Telecom


Related URLs:
grameentelecom.net grameenbank.com http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/1200 [1] http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/1196 [2] You can read a case study for this project here: http://www.nextbillion.net/node/1429 [3] News update on this activity: http://www.csrwire.com/article.cgi/4721.html [4]


Activity Description: The GrameenPhone Village Phone project provides door-to-door telecommunication services to the rural poor in Bangladesh. Each Village Phone remains under the custody of a village pay phone operator, who is responsible for extending the services to the customers; the operator’s income is derived from air time charges paid by the customers and a flat service charge.

The program has now spread in more than 35,000 villages in 61 out of 64 districts of the country, and has distributed over 150,000 Village Phones across Bangladesh. Similar programs have been replicated in India and Africa by local organizations in partnership with Grameen Phone.


Source URL:
http://www.nextbillion.net//Grameen-village-phone-bangladesh