What are the mobile phone and Internet access charges?
Phone calls cost the standard call charge plus an additional .018 US cents per minute. In other words, the mobile phone charges cost a total of Taka 6 per minute, which is the standard charge of .109 US cents plus the additional .018 US cents. It’s very cheap considering the consumer surplus that is generated by our objective of fighting poverty with telecommunications. For Internet access, the users are paying Taka 1.50 per minute or .0272 US cents. Q: How many people are using the Internet kiosks? A: In two of the existing kiosks the regular number of combined users is 200 (one hundred in each of them) on an average. The number is increasing slowly as more and more people are getting to know of the technology and its benefits. Q: Who maintains the kiosk centers? A: The PCs are being maintained by the Grameen Communications’ staff who are posted in the centers. For more complicated or serious problems our maintenance people from the head office in Dhaka visit the centers. At the momen
