Investigation of the replicability of a microfinance approach to extending telecommunications access to marginal customers, version 3.1

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dc.contributor.authorKnight-John, Malathy
dc.contributor.authorZainudeen, Ayesha
dc.contributor.authorKhan, Abu Saeed
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-26T19:21:39Z
dc.date.available2010-02-26T19:21:39Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.descriptionCopublished with LIRNEasiaen
dc.description.abstractThis study is an attempt to examine and document particular sets of solutions that have emerged for the extension of telecommunications access to marginal customers in Bangladesh, under the Grameen Village Phone (VP) program. The VP program has been successful in providing access to telecommunications to over 45 percent of the villages in Bangladesh through providing microfinance to villagers to purchase a mobile phone and a GrameenPhone connection, which is then operated as a payphone, providing access to fellow villagers for a charge. This is particularly impressive in a country that had 3.44 telecom (fixed plus mobile) subscribers per one hundred inhabitants in 2004. The VP program has been hailed as a unique case in the development of rural telecom infrastructure...en
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dc.format.extent1 digital file (44 p. : ill.)en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/41884
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWorld Dialogue on Regulation for Network Economies (WDR), Lyngby, DKen
dc.relation.ispartofWDR dialogue theme 3rd cycle discussion paper WRD0506en
dc.subjectFINANCIAL SERVICESen
dc.subjectTELECOMMUNICATIONSen
dc.subjectINFORMATION TECHNOLOGYen
dc.subjectPOVERTY ALLEVIATIONen
dc.subjectRURAL AREASen
dc.subjectBANGLADESHen
dc.titleInvestigation of the replicability of a microfinance approach to extending telecommunications access to marginal customers, version 3.1en
dc.typeWorking Paperen
idrc.dspace.accessIDRC Onlyen
idrc.project.componentnumber102450007
idrc.project.number102450
idrc.project.titleICT Governance for Poverty Reductionen
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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