Wednesday, July 26, 2006

GrameenPhone Launches Online Marketplace

Reuters reports that ,

"DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's top mobile phone operator GrameenPhone Ltd., majority-owned by Norway's Telenor, and USA-based CellBazaar have introduced a service connecting buyers and sellers in an electronic marketplace over the mobile phone.

This is the first time such a service is being launched anywhere in the world, Kamal Quadir, CEO of CellBazaar told a news conference on Tuesday.

The service will enable sellers to list details of their products, produce or even services in a database while buyers can look for any of this information through SMS.

The concept was developed at the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."


Interesting indeed ... especially that MIT's media lab chose to implement its idea via GrameenPhone! Let's see how it turns out in the real world ...

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks ragib bhai for the info..

Anonymous said...

Its a good thing they did - now i have more reasons to blame them for their lack of success :P

কিংবদন্তি said...

I am also confused.. how effectively it would go...

Anonymous said...

I have developed a similar mobile platform for buying and selling... check it out.. http://www.zindabazar.mobi

And in mine there is no need to send your adver via sms