{"id":844336,"date":"2024-08-14T09:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=844336"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:07:55","slug":"muhammad-yunus-may-bring-reforms-to-bangladesh-telecoms-mobile-operator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/14\/muhammad-yunus-may-bring-reforms-to-bangladesh-telecoms-mobile-operator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Yunus may bring reforms to Bangladesh telecoms, mobile operator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Muhammad Yunus in charge, Bangladesh may see much-needed reforms and investment in its telecoms sector given the caretaker government leader&#8217;s knowledge of the industry, according to one of the country&#8217;s leading mobile operators.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus, who took over last Thursday, founded the Grameen Bank that won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the microcredit movement. He is also a stakeholder in Grameenphone, Bangladesh&#8217;s leading telecom operator, jointly owned by Yunus&#8217; non-profit Grameen Telecom and Norway&#8217;s Telenor, which holds 55% of Grameenphone&#8217;s shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Muhammad Yunus in charge, Bangladesh may see much-needed reforms and investment in its telecoms sector given the caretaker government leader&#8217;s knowledge of the industry, according to one of the country&#8217;s leading mobile operators. Yunus, who took over last Thursday, founded the Grameen Bank that won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the microcredit movement. He is also a stakeholder in Grameenphone, Bangladesh&#8217;s leading telecom operator, jointly owned by Yunus&#8217; non-profit Grameen Telecom and Norway&#8217;s Telenor, which holds 55% of Grameenphone&#8217;s shares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}