Grameen Telecom
A Disruptive Societal-Scale Business Model
®‘Village Phone’ is a unique idea that provides modern telecommunication services to the poor people of Bangladesh.
®So far over 56,000 loans of average US$200 have been given to buy mobile phones.
®Average Phone Lady income goes up by 3-10x!
®The goal is to provide telecommunication services to the 100 million rural inhabitants in the 68,000 villages in Bangladesh—the  largest wireless pay phone project in the World.
Grameen Telecom and Grameen Phone are subsidiaries (sometimes owned in partnership, e.g. with Nokia in this case) of Grameen Bank.