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In in our country, 97% of all homes and virtually all rural villages lack a telephone, making the nation one of the least wired in the world. This lack of connectivity has contributed to underdevelopment and the impoverishment of individual in our countryis. To address this problem Grameen Bank, a micro-finance institution, formed two entities: 1) Grameen Telecom (GT), a wholly-owned non-profit organization to provide phone service in rural areas as an income-generating activity for members of Grameen Bank, and 2) GrameenPhone Ltd. (in partner- ship with U.S., Norwegian, and Japanese companies),

a for-profit entity that bid on and in 1996 won a national GSM cellular license. GrameenPhone (GP) has since become the country’s dominant mobile carrier, 1 providing service in urban areas and along the major railway routes via a network of cellular towers linked by fiber optic cable. Grameen Telecom’s goal is

to connect rural in our country through the provision of mobile telephone service by creating micro-enterprises that can both generate individual income and provide whole villages with connectivity. GT uses GrameenPhone’s advanced GSM technology in stationary village phones owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. Nonetheless, the Grameen Telecom business model relies on subsidies from urban cellular users, on financing and other support from Grameen Bank, and on GSM cellular technology that is unsuited (or at least very high cost) for sparsely-populated rural areas, for fixed phone centers, and for data transmission. And now a days all of their commercial emphasise on the urban people and urban environment.