By:
Paul Leishman: January 27th, 2010
Recently I caught up with Azad Delwar Hossain, Head of Financial Services for Grameenphone in Bangladesh. Grameenphone launched a service called ‘BillPay’ in 2006, which allows customers to pay utility bills over the counter, or through an e-wallet. In this interview, Azad provides insights into all aspects of their model, but key three insights emerge that all operators deploying payment offerings should consider:
1. Ensuring right commission spread and loyalty of channel partner
2. How market conditions impact business models
3. The importance of trust
By:
Seema Desai: November 18th, 2009
The Mobile Money for the Unbanked Programme has awarded grants to AKTEL in Bangladesh, Dialog Telekom PLC in Sri Lanka, Grameenphone Ltd in Bangladesh, MTN Cameroon, MTN Uganda and Vodacom Tanzania. This is in addition to the grants that were already announced in October, to SMART, AXIS, Roshan and Oi. The funding from MMU will serve to accelerate these deployments, and the learnings will be shared by the Programme with the wider industry in order to accelerate other deployments around the world. Funding is still available for operators to apply for - if you are interested in finding out more about the Fund, please contact Seema Desai, sdesai@gsm.org.
More information on each grantee after the jump.
