Grameenphone

Overview

Grameenphone Limited

traded as	dse: GP CSE: GP
native name	গ্রামীণফোন লিমিটেড
native name lang	bn
type	Public
industry	Mobile telecommunication services
foundation	March 26, 1997 in Dhaka, Bangladesh‡R1R‡
founder	Iqbal Quadir Muhammad Yunus
hq location	GP House, Bashundhara Residential Area
hq location city	Dhaka
hq location country	Bangladesh
area served	Nationwide
key people	Joergen C. Arentz Rostrup (Chairperson) Yasir Azman (CEO) Jens Becker (CFO)
products	* Mobile Telephony * LTE * LTE+ * VoLTE * VoWiFi * FDD * eSIM * 5G
brands	Skitto GPay Bioscope+ alo gpfi
services	Mobile telephony Mobile internet Digital services
revenue	▲ (FY 2022)
operating income	▲ (FY 2022)
profit	▲ (FY 2022)
assets	▲ (FY 2022)
num employees	1,475‡R2R‡‡R3R‡
num employees year	2021
parent	Telenor (Norway Govt Owned) (55.80%) Grameen Telecom (34.20%)
website	grameenphone.com

Grameenphone Limited, widely abbreviated as (d/b/a) GP, is a telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh. As of 2026, its subscribers span over 84.33 million, making it Bangladesh's largest telecommunications conglomerate by both revenue and users[4][5] It is a joint venture between Norwegian government-owned Telenor and Bangladeshi Grameen Telecom. Telenor owns 55.8% of Grameenphone, Grameen Telecom owns 34.2%, and the remaining 10% is publicly held.[6] As of 2026, Grameenphone is Bangladesh's most valuable company with a market cap of more than ৳339.1 billion BDT or $2.77 billion USD (approximately).[7]

History

Other activities

Village phone

With the help of Grameenphone, Grameen Telecom operates the national Village Phone program, alongside its own parent Grameen Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), acting as the sole provider of telecommunications services to a number of rural areas. Most Village Phone participants are women living in remote areas. Village Phone works as an owner-operated GSM payphone whereby a borrower takes a BDT 12,000 (US$200) loan from Grameen Bank to subscribe to Grameenphone and is then trained on how to operate it and how to charge others to use it at a profit. As of September 2006, there are more than 255,000 Village Phones in operation in 55,000 villages around Bangladesh. This program has been replicated also in some other countries including Uganda and Rwanda in Africa.[29]

Grameenphone Corporate Headquarter (GP House)

Grameenphone Corporate Headquarter (popularly known as "GP House"). Located at Bashundhara R/A, Dhaka, was formally inaugurated on 23 November 2010.[30] GP House is considered one of the successful office buildings in Bangladesh.[30] It has been designed by Architect Mohammad Foyez Ullah, Mustapha Khalid Palash and their team.[31][32]

Community Information Centers

Community Information Center (CIC) or GPCIC was an initiative aimed at providing internet access and other communications services to rural areas. In February 2006, 26 CICs were established across the country as a pilot project. In this project, Grameenphone provided GSM/EDGE/GPRS infrastructure and technical support and other partners Grameen Telecom Corporation and Society for Economic and Basic Advancement (SEBA), were involved in selecting and training entrepreneurs to run the village centers. These CICs were used for a wide variety of business and personal purposes, from accessing health and agricultural information to using government services to video conferencing with relatives overseas. Grameenphone also trained entrepreneurs so that they could demonstrate to people how to set up an e-mail account and best make use of the Internet. Currently, none of the CICs are being operated by GP.

Grameenphone Centres

A Grameenphone Centre (GPC) serves as a "one-stop solution" for customers, with all telecommunications products and services, under a single roof. A Grameenphone Centre also sells phones from vendors like Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi and more. EDGE/GPRS modems and accessories such chargers and headphones are also sold at GPCs.

As of February 2013, there are 85[33] GPCs and they are strategically located at all major locations of the country operated by Grameenphone. There are two GP Lounges for customer experience of GP Digital Services. There are also 376,285 unique recharge outlets and 6,836 GP Express Stores all across Bangladesh.

Grameenphone

History

Changing logo

Numbering scheme

Customers

Network

Spectrums

Products and services

Bioscope

Bioscope+

Ekhanei.com

Other services

Other activities

Village phone

Grameenphone Corporate Headquarter (GP House)

Community Information Centers

Grameenphone Centres

External links

References