Grameenphone Kazi Islam

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An interview published by MobiAD News with Kazi Islam, CEO of Grameenphone IT, explores how Grameenphone — now Bangladesh’s largest mobile operator with over 26 million subscribers — is using mobile technology to address health and education needs in emerging markets. The piece revisits the origins of Grameenphone’s well-known Village Phone Program, born from Dr Muhammad Yunus’s realisation that villagers didn’t need to own a phone outright: a trusted community member, often a woman, could rent out a single shared phone by the minute, generating income while connecting the whole village to the wider country.