Internship Report Topic Customer Services of GrameenPhone

Executive Summary:

‘GrameenPhone Ltd.’ is Bangladesh’s pioneering mobile communications company and the GSM network operator in the country. GrameenPhone Ltd. aims to understand peoples’ needs best and develop appropriate communication services to improve peoples’ life and make it simple. All our work is aimed towards meeting our vision. All members of the Grameenphone family are highly passionate individuals, fully committed to achieving the vision that we have set ourselves. Our customers’ needs matter most to us- making their life simple and improving it is all we want. To ensure our vision is achieved, we have set ourselves a few values,

‘GrameenPhone Ltd.’ is a customer-driven organization whose mission is to deliver the latest in advanced telecommunication services to Bangladesh. The company offers a full array of fixed and mobile services for consumers and businesses that are focused on the unique needs of the Bangladeshi community. ‘

GrameenPhone Ltd.’s growth strategy is to integrate superior customer service, highest standard technology and choice of packages at affordable rates.

The company operates a 24-hour call centre with over 180 well trained operators to respond to customer queries. ‘Grameenphone’s customer services are open 7 days a week to ensure customers can access ‘Grameenphone’ at any convenient time. ‘Grameenphone’ is focused on innovation and creating new ways for customers to stay in touch and to do business. ‘Grameenphone’ s is offering a wide range of competitive prepaid and postpaid mobile packages as well as Value Added Services such as SMS and information based services.

GrameenPhone Ltd. is looking forward in introducing GSM technology in 1996 to provide innovative multimedia features, including Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and many more data based mobile features currently not available in Bangladesh. Today’s customers are much more conscious than previous. Now they have lots of option. They can choose their product from among many competitors. So it’s getting tough for the companies to retain customer. Companies should remember one thing maximizing profit in the short run doesn’t provide the best return on investment. Organizations that focus on building their reputation are going to provide the best long term.

Origin of the report:

The internship program is a prerequisite for the completion of the Master of Business Administration Program of ASA University Bangladesh. Each student has to work on a research project over the period of Internship Program.

All the students of the MBA Program after successfully completing their 5^th semester are placed at different organizations as interns The Internship Program is considered as the 6^th semester and is given the equivalent weight as the other semesters. One semester MBA internship program is an attempt to provide business graduates an orientation to a real life business situation in which they can observe and evaluate the use and applicability of the theoretical concepts which were taught in the classrooms. I was placed in Grameenphone Ltd. by the Internship Placement Committee of the Department of Business Administration, ASA UniversityBangladesh, and Dhaka.

The Internship Report is the organized presentation of the three months long Internship Program. As a mandatory part of this program I have to prepare a report on my internship work responsibility and experience.

The Project “Customer Services of Grameenphone- A total over view” has been assigned by the faculty supervisor and approved by the organization’s supervisor. It has been completed during the organizational attachment period in Grameenphone from during this period I was under the supervision of Mr. Moshiur Rahman, Coordinator of people and Process Development. I have prepared this internship report with the mentioned topic, which was suggested and supervised by my academic supervisor, Professor Dr. Rashadul Hasan, Department of Business Administration, ASA UniversityBangladesh.

Objectives:

General Objectives:

To relate theoretical learning acquired through classroom study with that of the real life business situation faced by the internee during his/her Internship period.
To fulfill requirement of the internship program.
To discuss about telecommunication business in Bangladesh.

Specific Objectives:

To provide an overview of the host organization – know about the management & Customer services system of Grameenphone, its objectives and its function.
To discuss about the importance of Customer service Division.

Scope:

The scope of the study is limited within telecommunication business in Bangladesh. It is also limited within the organization of Grameenphone Ltd. and especially within Customer Service Division of the company. Here I discuss mostly with the topics related to the Customer Services Division of Grameenphone Ltd.

Limitations:

Confidentiality of data was the main constraint that was faced during the study. As a part of the policy of Grameenphone, some data that could not be used to enhance the parameter of the analysis. Because, maintaining the secrecy of such data is important to the organization’s interest.
It is too much difficult to comment and suggest based on only Customer service reports and information supplied by the organization
Office personnel and officials are very busy with their occupational activities. Therefore, it will be a little bit difficult for them to help within their right schedule.
Beside all the above restraint, the lack of experience on the part of the researcher in this field may have become yet another limiting factor.

Organization of the Report:

This report is broadly organized into four parts. The first is the introductory part. Second part contains a short overview of telecom industry of Bangladesh. The third part is on the overview of the organization itself. The last part concentrates on the project part. This part also contains the recommendations and conclusion.

METHODOLOGY:

Classification of Data:

The data collected can be classified as primary versus secondary data. Primary data is gathered and assembled specifically for the project part at hand. Secondary data has already been collected for purposes other than the problem at hand.

In this study, both primary and secondary data is used. The secondary data about customer services process has been collected from external sources, such as web sites and Books. In order to get basic knowledge about the study objects, external data was collected from the Internet. Moreover, the basic data related to the customer service was collected from its Reports, booklets and other available data sources.

Data Collection Method:

The following methods were used to collect the required information for the research:

Documentation: Documentary information for the study includes written reports from events and administrative documents (annual reports, proposals, progress reports, and internal documents).

Interviews: The primary data was collected through informal interviews. The interviews were performed in a conversational manner and the respondent can answer in his/her own words. I have interviewed and taken some suggestions orally from the personnel of Grameenphone Ltd. Besides this, regular conversations with many GP employees have helped me a lot.

Direct Observation: Information was collected by the observation of the office works and different activities of the officials during my internship period.

Telecom Industry Overview:

The definition of telecommunication is changing day by day. Before, telecommunications meant telephone systems. But today many other things have crept into modern telecommunication. Now, we have to deal with a wide spectrum of communications equipment and technology. In the broadest sense, telecommunication means any system that handles voice, data, video or any handling of information in motion, whenever it is found, in whatever form. Telecommunication is the main backbone of any country. No country can sustain development without a strong telecom infrastructure. One of the first priorities of any government is to be able to communicate smoothly around the country.

Despite the slow development of telecom services in the past, improved commitment, guaranteed funding and entering of new and powerful organizations both in and outside of the country gives the hope that the ongoing telecommunications projects will be successful and the overall telephone infrastructure of Bangladesh will grow stronger. The growth in the cellular industry is contributing very positively in the local economy. Lots of job opportunities have been created for the country where thousands of people are jobless. Moreover, cellular network all over the country has built a basic communication infrastructure for the country, which will definitely attract FDI in the country. Finally it can be said that mobile phone now a days has become a necessary rather than a luxury.

The mobile phone customers in Bangladesh have been happier than before at present because they have more choices regarding service providers at present. There are six telephone operators in Bangladesh now. Among them, one is Government owned telephone operator: Bangladesh Telephone Company Limited (BTCL) and the other four are privately owned companies namely Grameenphone Ltd. Aktel, Banglalink and City Cell and Warid Telecom.

Telecommunication Industry in Bangladesh:

The telecommunication sector in Bangladesh is poised for rapid growth in the coming years. The concept of mobile telephony has become largely familiar and phenomenal in Bangladesh from the early 90s. The sector, particularly which of mobile phones, is one of the fastest growing areas of the economy. The growth potentials will continue to remain robust for the near future.

There are five telephone operators in Bangladesh now. Among them, one is Government owned telephone operator: Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) and the other four are privately owned companies namely Grameenphone Ltd. Aktel, Banglalink and City Cell.

Introduction of mobile telecommunications system:

City Cell was the first mobile service provider of Bangladesh. Initially it had a monopoly on the mobile service but only until 1996. In 1996 two new operators entered the market- GP and Sheba. Sheba’s service was limited to Dhaka but GP spread its network rapidly. GP has two kinds of services- GP national and GP regular. GP national provides connection with BTTB and all other mobiles throughout the country wherever GP has its network. GP regular only connects to GP mobiles throughout the country according to its coverage. Grameen’s cell phones have reached a massive number of villages. GP, funded by the Grameen Bank (10%) and Nortel (90%), has used the optical fiber network owned by Bangladesh Railway. The fiber optic cables were originally laid by the Bangladesh Rural Transport Authority (BRTA) but never used. Therefore Grameen Phone’s network has been easily connected to any mobile users who are adjacent to Bangladesh railway tracks. The GP’s village program was started in 1997 and is providing service to people in the remote rural areas of BD. According to statistics of October 2003, there are more than 39,000 village phones in operation. These village phones are operating in 58 districts and in approximately 28,000 villages, providing telecom facilities to more than 50 million people in remote areas. Besides GP, CityCell and Sheba there was a fourth cell phone operator called Aktel. Aktel joined Bangladesh’s fast cell phone operation in 1999. Although mainly based in Dhaka, like Banglalink, Aktel has been able to attract customers and maintain control of quality.

Grameenphone Ltd.:

Grameenphone Ltd. is a joint venture of two different companies of two different countries. Grameenphone is the largest cellular phone operator in the industry in Bangladesh. The company holds the majority market share and largest subscriber base in the industry. The details of the company are discussed in the later parts.

Network System Frequency (MHz):

Network	System	Frequency (MHz)
Grameenphone	GSM	1800 & 900
Banglalink	GSM	1800
Aktel Telecom	GSM	900
Warid	GSM	1800
Citycell	CDMA	800

Market Share of the Mobile Phone Operator:

Huge demands, a combination of competitive markets, private ownership and foreign investment have crated an environment for rapid growth in the cellular industry in Bangladesh. The growth in the cellular industry is contributing very positively in the local economy. Lots of job opportunities have been created for the country where thousands of people are jobless. Moreover, cellular network all over the country has built a basic communication infrastructure for the country, which will definitely attract FDI in the country. Finally it can be said that mobile phone now a days has become a necessary rather than a luxury.

At June 2006 the cellular telecom market in Bangladesh was comprised of 13.26 M (Appx) phone connections that are provided by the four mobile operators. The market share of the mobile phone operators in Bangladesh up to June -2006 was as follows:

Service Provider	Market Share
GrameenPhone Ltd.	63.84%
Aktel	18.66%
CityCell	3.92%
*Banglalink*	12.1%
*Teletalk*	1.47%
Total	100%

Table: 1 Market Share of different Cell phone companies (by customer)

Grameenphone at a Glance:

The full name: Grameenphone Ltd.

Head Office : Clebration Point

Plot # 3&5

Rode # 113/A

Gulshan -2

Dhaka -1212

Bangladesh

Date of incorporation: November 28, 1996

Service Launched: March 26, 1997

Product & Services: More than 50 products, services, promotions and features,

customer centers in 6 Divisional cities, 600 Grameenphone

Service Desk all over the country

Employees: The Company presently has 4465 employees. Another 70000 people

are directly dependent on Grameenphone for the livelihood, working

for the GP dealers, retailers, scratch card retail outlets, suppliers,

vendors, contractors and others.

No of divisions: 11

No of Subscribers: 10 millions

Shareholders: Telenor (62%), Grameeen telecom (38%)

Vision: We’re here to help (This vision crystallizes customer focus as the

Cornerstone of everything they do: helping customers get the full

benefit of communications in their daily life.

Values: Make it Easy, Keep Promises, Be Inspiring, Be Respectful

About Grameenphone Limited:

GrameenPhone Ltd is the leading mobile phones company in Bangladesh with more than50% of market share and after twelve years of operations the largest no. of customers to serve with. The company has a customer base of 21 million and the number is further growing. Last year more than 16.5 million people made GrameenPhone their preferred service provider and in this year the numbers of customers have reached to 10 million. Grameenphone’s customer base has grown by 100% per year, making it the fastest growing mobile telephone company in southern Asia. The company now serves almost all parts of the country, providing a large network all over Bangladesh. Grameenphone is the pioneer to bring in modern telecommunication technology and introducing state of the art product and services in the telecom industry in the country. GP is the first operator who introduces the pre-paid service in September 1999. It established the first 24-hour CallCenter, introduced value-added services such as VMS, SMS, fax and data transmission services, international roaming service, WAP, SMS-based push-pull services, EDGE, personal ring back tone and many other products and services.

Telecommunication sector is a service-oriented sector. Grameenphone offers various types of new and innovative telephone services to both the urban and rural people of Bangladesh during the last ten years. Different types of post-paid services, the EASY and EASY Gold pre-paid service, and the village phone program are among its largest innovations. Besides these largest ones, Grameenphone also introduced a number of value added services like the news update service, international roaming facility, Voice Mail Service, Text Mail Service, fax and data transmission services, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) service etc.

The company is the pioneer in most of its services. Handsets or the phone-set and the SIM Cards, Scratch Cards are the only physical products provided by the company. By spreading nationwide cellular phone coverage and making it affordable to the low-income people of remote rural areas, Grameenphone has eventually connected these remote areas to the furthest corner of the globe.

There are so many departments in grameenphone like Finance Division, Customer Service Division, Human resource management (HRM), Technology Department, and Marketing Division. Grameenphone Customer Services Department is designed for the support of customers and is usually come into action after a product or service has been sold. It is a tribute to close relationships and the care it entails. It is a celebration of the magic of the closeness that Grameenphone facilitates through its superior service. Customer is their valued subscriber, are a member of the family they care for everyday. Grameenphone Customer managers are people just like customers near and dear ones. They are caring brothers, caring mothers, caring sisters, caring fathers in their own families.

Objective:

Grameenphone Ltd. has a dual objective to receive an economic return on its investments and to contribute to the economic development of Bangladesh through telecommunication. This is why Grameenphone, in collaboration with Grameen Bank and Grameen Telecom, is aiming to place one phone in each village (Village Phone) to contribute significantly to the economic benefit of the poor. It is on the way to bring a total revolution in the telecommunication field. By attaining the success factors, Grameenphone would like to be recognized as a reliable, honest and committed company to its valued subscribers and stakeholders.

Strategy:

The basic strategy of Grameenphone Ltd. is for the overall coverage of both urban and rural areas. It builds continues coverage, cell after cell, with an intention to bring the whole country under its network. Though the priority of the intensity of coverage varies from area to area, the basic strategy of cell-to-cell coverage is applied through the whole country. Presently, it has network coverage in 61 districts around the country including all six divisional headquarters, with 1400 base stations in operation.

Existing Share Holder of Grameenphone:

The Shareholders of Grameenphone Ltd. contribute their unique, in-depth experience in both telecommunications and development the concerns of the globe. International shareholders bring technological and business expertise while the local shareholder provides a presence throughout Bangladesh and a deep understanding of Bangladeshi economy. All the four (at present two shareholders) shareholders are dedicated to Bangladesh and its struggle for economic progress. They have a deep commitment to Grameenphone Ltd. and its mission to provide affordable telephony to the entire population of Bangladesh.

Now Grameenphone has only two shareholders: Telenor (62%) and Grameen telecom (38%).

Achievements:

The growth trend of the number of subscribers of Grameenphone Ltd. is a unique example in the telecommunication field in Bangladesh. The total number of GP subscribers at March -2009 reached 21 million. This is really a fabulous achievement in such a short period of business history.

By bringing electronic connectivity to rural Bangladesh, Grameenphone is brining the digital revolution to the doorsteps of the poor and unconnected. Grameen bank borrowers are engaged in a business by providing valuable phone service to their fellow villagers. For them, mobile phone is a weapon against poverty.

Products and Services of GrameenPhone Ltd.:

The products of Grameenphone are categorized in four different segments four different kinds of users. They are:

General Users/ consumer
Business Users
Youth Segment
Rural Users

SWOT Analysis:

Strengths and weaknesses are the micro environmental factors influencing a business which are within the organization. Opportunities and threats are the micro environmental factors that influence all the firms in the industry. They are present in the whole industry.

The following figure shows the strengths and opportunities that GrameenPhone Ltd. enjoys as well as weaknesses and threats that the company faces.

SWOT Analysis

Government Benefits from Grameenphone Ltd.:

The services of Grameenphone have been serving the country over the last ten years since its inception on March 26, 1997. Along with the there other cellular operations in the country, Grameenphone has established the concept that the mobile phone is not just a status symbol in the hands of the well to do. It is rather a tool in the hands of the general people to achieve economic growth for the nation. Grameenphone as a service provider also enriches the National Treasury in many different ways. Since its inception up to December 2004, Grameenphone has contributed BDT 30,500 million to the Government Exchequer in direct and indirect taxes.

This monetary value does not include the economic growth that Grameenphone has achieved due to its enormous number of subscribers and the largest market share. The impact of this achievement on the country’s economy could be even larger.

GP with new logo:

After nearly 12 years of successful operations, Grameenphone is entering a new phase. Grameenphone is moving on to serve its customers even better. Today GP launches the most visible sign of that ambition – a new visual identity.

The old logo was designed more that 10 years ago and even includes an outdated handset – for that reason, based on design alone and need for a relevant and timely look and feel, the old logo needed reviewing.

Over the last 12 years, GP’s industry and customers needs have changed, and so has GP. Importantly, as introduce a refreshed visual identity, they are maintaining the name Grameenphone as part of the new logo.

The new logo and fresh, dynamic visuals with the Grameenphone name express the values Grameenphone is known for: a local company, trust – reliability – quality, constant progress, customer-focused, and an agent for social change in moving Bangladesh forward. However, it also represents the Grameenphone of the future. GP is evolving its business to continue to meet the changing needs of its customers and need a visual identity that reflects its future view and Grameenphone as the ‘brand of the future’ for its customers. While move away from red and green, it take a step forward as a truly Bangladeshi company that will work harder to meet the needs of all our customers across the country and focus on corporate social responsibility.

GP’s brand is much more than just a logo – it is a set of ideas, a way of doing things and a measure of behaviour. To ensure future success, and guide in adapting to the changes GP see in its industry and its customers’ needs, GP is introducing a renewed vision for the company as well as a new set of values.

Upcoming preparation:

Grameenphone is at a crucial point in its evolution as a company. For 12 years it has lead the way in making mobile communications accessible across Bangladesh. During this first Grameenphone era, it succeeded in becoming ‘number 1’ – the ‘local hero’ that revolutionized the way people communicate. GP is now a proud market leader with the best network, leading technology and best customer care. GP is proud of its pioneer tradition of breaking new ground in mobile communications. In addition, it is proud of having shown the world how to use mobile technology to drive socio-economic development.

Grameenphone will continue to lead the way in communications in Bangladesh:

By being a driving force in the industry (and by looking modern and fresh)
By keeping pace with change and their customers needs
By being the most customer centric organization with committed customer care
By continuing to provide a quality network with the widest coverage in the country
By providing innovative, relevant and useful services and solutions
By making communications more accessible
By providing value for money

– Delivering quality at every touch point

– By being affordable

By being a preferred employer which has the best pool of competent and skilled resources, which takes care of and develops its employees
By drawing on the best of their partnerships (It aims further strengthen its local competitiveness through its partnerships: 1. Exchange of competence across companies in the Telenor group and 2. Leveraging on the local market knowledge, expertise and reach of its local shareholder)

Corporate Social Responsibility:

Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing Commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large. CSR is about capacity building for sustainable livelihoods. It respects cultural differences and finds the business opportunities in building the skills of employees, the community and the government. Also CSR is about business giving back to society.

Companies make profits, unhindered except by fulfilling their duty to pay taxes. Then they donate a certain share of the profits to charitable causes. It seen as tainting the act for the company to receive any benefit from the giving.

Being a social Responsible company, Grameenphone has clearly demonstrated its commitment towards the betterment of society. Along with serving the communication needs of more than 16.5 million subscribers. Grameenphone through its CSR program concentrated on health, education, and empowerment project for the underprivileged segment of the society.

Gp core strategy in this area is to be Bangladeshs partner in developing country, particularly in its promise, as a United Nations millennium declaration signatory, to meet the eight targets known as the millennium development goals by 2015. Grameenphone have consolidated our social investment initiatives in four core areas related to the millennium development goals namely: (1)Poverty alleviation

(2)Health care

(3) Empowerment

(4)Education

Village phone:

Village phone programe- Administered by Grameen Telecom in cooperation with grameen bank, It enables rural people who normally cannot afford to own a telephone to avail the service while providing the village phone operators, mostly poor village women, an opportunity to earn a living.

Rehabilitation of acid victims:

Acid throwing is ahorrible for every person. In Bangladesh both sexes are affected by this violence, majority of victins are women and girls. They through acid not only to destroy the victim’s faces but also break their hopes. Grameenphone is lending support to the Acid survivors’ foundation (ASF) in the rehabilitation and reintegration of these victims into the society.Grameenphone has recruited six individuals who have been supported by the Acid survivors’ foundation. These individuals have been provided with the training by Grameenphone to help them develop the necessary kills to take on their new responsibilities at Grameenphone.

Information Boat:

To main objective to this project, in partnership with CARE Bangladesh is to provide necessary livelihood information to the riverrine communities of Bangladesh. A typical information boat will be equipped with computer, internet, and email facilities, photocopies, Fax machines, printers, web cams, andVideo machines, Schnners and much more, depending on the needs of a specific community. These boats will also be equipped with digital contents , such as livelihood and agricultural information, suited the specific areas served by the designated boats. At the same time, skilled trainees from CARE Bangladesh will provide training to the local community as different livelihood options.

Scholarship for under privileged Students:

Scholarship for under privileged Students

In collaboration with Grameen shikha, an organization of the Grameen bank Family. Grameenphone aims to provide financial assistant to 100 bright but under privileged students through a scholarship fund at different academic levels annually. Of this scholarship, 60% is reserved for female student.

Community information centre:

Grameenphone initiated the CIC project in 2006. CICs are the internet kiosks, set up through independent entrepreneurs across rural Bangladesh. CICs are providing access to the internet and email service for the first time.

Health line service:

Grameenphone, in its continuous endeavor to provide its customers with innovative and convenient services, has launched ‘Health line service’ for its customers. Through this service, Grameenphone subscribers will now be able to get Health counseling services through third party call center Grameenphone customers can just dial 789 and they will be put through to a call center agent of Healthline. These agents are all MBBS professionals and specially trained to provide health issue related consultancy over phone.

The services that will be offered are as follows:

Professional medical consultancy
Health care information
Beauty tips

It also maintain a large country wide database doctors, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres and refers patients nearest to their location. In country where there is only one doctor for every 4000 people , this service has helped expand primary health care service and information to the entire subscriber base of grameenphone.

Free Eye Camps:

In partnership with Sight savers International, eye camps are organized in rural areas to provide free eye-care services to the economically disadvantaged population. Around 12,000 patients were provided free eye-care support, of them, more than 1,350 Intra Ocular lens or cataract surgeries have been performed through eight eye-camps organized till May 2008.

Free Cancer Treatment:

Grameenphone has sponsored the complete development and upkeep of five wards and an Operation. Theater at the under-construction Dhaka Ahsania Mission Cancer and GeneralHospital. One-third of the beds sponsored by Grameenphone will be reserved for more economically disadvantaged patients who will receive free admission and full treatment. The rest of the disadvantaged patients screened will also receive treatment, which will be significantly subsidized by Grameenphone.

National Immunization Day Awareness:

Bangladesh could not yet achieve the target of Universal Child Immunization of 80%, due to lack of awareness about immunization and its importance. The main objective of this unique campaign, in cooperation with the Government and the WHO, is to raise awareness about child immunization. The campaign created awareness through SMS alert to subscribers, newspaper announcements, and public service announcement in radio in April, June and October 2007.

Empowering the Intellectually Challenged:

In partnership with Special Olympics Bangladesh, the project aims to empower the intellectually Challenged athletes to nurture their sporting capabilities. Being the sole sponsor, Grameenphone provided necessary support and training for the athletes to participate in the Special Olympic Games2007. The team went on to win 71 medals (32 Gold, 15 Silver and 24 Bronze) at the Special OlympicGames held in Shanghai, China in October 2007.

Safe Motherhood and Infant Care Program:

In partnership with Pathfinder International and USAID, Grameenphone supports the national “Safe Motherhood and Infant Care” program, aiming to meet the Millennium Development Goals for reducing maternal and infant mortality rates in the country. Under the program, free comprehensive primary healthcare services are provided to 800,000 economically disadvantaged pregnant mothers and infants annually through the 320 Smiling Sun clinics located in 61 districts around the country. Between August 2007 and January 2008 alone, 558,143 economically disadvantaged mothers and infants received this free healthcare service under the project. In addition, Grameenphone also provided five motorized vans to facilitate better patients’ referral and two clinic-on-wheels to increasethe accessibility of the services in the hard-to-reach areas.

A live experience:

Grameenphone selects financially poor families based on social discussions in different areas. The Grameenphone safe motherhood and infant care project is mainly designed to provide medical services from the first day of pregnancy till the newborn is a year old. Anowara Begum plnged into anxiety. Her fears mounted as her doctor prescribed a surgery for complexities in the third trimester of her pregnancy.

Anowara lives in a slum-like-house on the banks of the PoshurRiver in the kumarkhali village of Mongla, close to the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. The village has no medical facilities to handle complicated deliveries. Anwara’s husband, who ferries people to and from the river, could do nothing to help. Just as she was ready to embrace the worst possible scenario, a skilled birth attendant from the nearest smiling sun clinic assured her, “You heed not worry”. Grameenphone would take care of all the expensws under the Grameenphone Safe Motherhood and Infant Care Project (SMICP). For Anwara, it was like waking up from a nightmare and she gave birth to a healthy baby boy in July 2008.

Maya enters her tiny abode, carrying her eight-month baby. Maya says shr has a mobile with which she can communicate with the dedicated health attendant, at any time of the day. The 32-year-old woman is waiting the birth of her secomd child and she says she feels relaxed and secure under Grameenphone’s SMICP. The attendant schedules an appointment to observe her condition every week. “I remember my last pregnancy well, when I could not take care of my self due to financial constraints. But this time, I do not have to go to the clinic to avail any medical advice or medicine. The attendant comes to my home and gives them to me.”

Every inspiration counts – True Liberation War Stories:

The Liberation War is the central component of Bangladesh’s history. It symbolizes the glorious sacrifice of our heroes for the independence of our country. Thus, Grameenphone, in partnership with Centre for Bangladesh Liberation War Studies, sponsors the publication and free distribution of a series of illustrated books on Liberation War. The stories in these publications are based on true events of the heroics of our freedom fighters, essentially during frontal battles fought in the battle-fields of Bangladesh.

How it Works:

The series consists of a total of six books. The targeted beneficiaries are school children, from class IV to class VIII, who will be provided with copies free of cost. The aim of these books is to familiarize children with the country’s Liberation War of 1971, and, in the process, create a sense of love and pride in them for their motherland. The books will be distributed in all six divisions of the country.

Project Milestone:

→ ‘Tagra’, the first book of the series, published which will be distributed among the students of Dhaka division only.
→ Distribution process initiated of a total number of 20,000 copies.

–Now Grameenphone published ““Ekatturer Chithi” in 2009

Emergency fund:

In 2007, Grameenphone also made a significant contribution towards the emergency relief efforts at the time of natural calamities. In August 2007, Grameenphone employees worked jointly with relevant Government agencies and partner NGOs to mitigate the suffering of the flood-affected people. Along with the one-day salary contribution of the employees, Grameenphone and Telenor donated BDT 43.1 million to the Chief Advisor’s Relief Fund. In addition, nearly 22,000 family packs containing food and other essential items were distributed at 39 locations nationwide. Nine medical camps (7 static and 2 floating) were also organized serving some 55,000 patients in the affected areas. Additionally, gruel kitchens were organized to serve cooked food to over 36,000 families in Dhaka Division. Grameenphone provided in-kind assistance worth of BDT 2.4 million in the Government relief effort, as an emergency support, towards the affected people of a landslide in Chittagong city. Immediately after the SIDR cyclone, Grameenphone again came forward with emergency relief support. In November, immediately after the cyclone struck, a contribution worth of BDT 10 million was made to the Chief Adviser’s Relief Fund. In addition, Telenor, the majority shareholder of Grameenphone, donated another BDT 23 million towards Grameenphone’s ongoing relief activities. Grameenphone employees contributed their one-day’s salary and Telenor affiliates in Pakistan and Denmark also made contributions towards the relief effort. In all, a total of 14,000 family packs were distributed from 16 distribution points in the eight worst-affected districts. Sixteen medical camps, including 3 floating ones, were set up in the affected areas and more than 15,000 patients were given medical assistance with free prescription and medication. Grameenphone also came out with an innovative way to help the affected people when 400 families in Barguna districts were provided with 400 temporary tents, made from old Grameenphone billboard vinyl. Finally, donation boxes were also set up in 50 Grameenphone Centers to collect donations from subscribers to contribute in the Chief Advisor’s relief fund. Almost 200 employees voluntarily participated during the relief effort.

A rehabilitation plan for the SIDR affected areas is currently underway. Four (4) primary school scum- cyclone shelters will be built at Barisal and Khulna region.

Customer Service Division:

Customer services:

Well come to Customer Service Division:

A significant measure if success for any company is how satisfied the customers are with the service. The Grameenphone customer service Department Under commercial Division is committed to go the extra mile to meet the needs of its valued customer.

The customer service Department took up many customer- focused actives in 2005.Focusing on customer relations and over all enhancement of after sales service quality. The Division was re- organized and re- aligned with other divisions to further enhance cross-functional cooperation, in order to be able to provide a positive experience through proper and on-time delivery of customer service. The CSD achieved greater efficiency, in terms if on-time service delivery, through its trained customer manager and the effectiveness of technology.

“CSD on the move” was introducing last year with the intention of reaching customers thought the country. Branded “Grameenphone Grahak kathe” the concept was developed to give custom’s platform to voice their opinions and expectations of Grameenphone. Customer feedback is taken in order to use the insights to further improve service quality.

The customer service division strives to give after-sales service to the customer rather than expect the customer to come to them for service. After all, positive customer experience is the key differentiator to being the industry leader.

Main Objective:

Within the direction for the Chief Executive Officer of the company, the Director of Customer Services Division shall ensure that the customer services and related functions within the company at all times are aligned with and supports the realization of the company’s business objectives. The Director of Customer Services shall direct the company’s overall Customer Services activities; facilitate state of art customer experiences through Quality Services in order to meet company targets for growth and profitability.

Main Responsibilities:

Develop, maintain and implement strategies, policies and procedures in order to establish organizational capabilities to meet current and emerging business needs for the functional area which includes:

 Call Centers

 Resource Management

 Complaint Management

 Online Customer Service

 Support & Development

Making sure of over all customer services activities by facilitating state of art customer experiences through quality services in order to support the company’s present prime target that 2 out of 3 customers shall have Grameenphone as their preferred provider of mobile telecom and mobile data services.
Monitor and control the strategical/ tactical initiatives and activities within Customer Services functions.
Provide support and consulting to all local Customer Services functions within scope, in order to ensure coordination, business alignment and adaptation of best-practices.
Develop and maintain descriptions of departments reporting to this function defining their responsibilities and how work is organized between these departments.
Ensure awareness of, and ability to comply with, legal requirements applicable for the company and its governance documents, including SOA-required internal controls and Codes of Conduct.

Ensure necessary capabilities company wide to ensure that the organization is able to meet its current and future business objectives.

Contact Centre:

The contact centre is the first point of contact for council enquiries. A contact centre is a central point in an enterprise from which all customer contacts are managed. The contact centre typically includes one or more online call centre’s but may include other types of customer contact as well including email, newsletter, postal mail, website inquiries and chats, and the collection of information from customer. A contact center is generally part of an enterprises overall customer relationship management.

In a fast changing world, the role of the mobile phone is increasing day by day; so are the demands of our subscribers. We understand that customer demands are no longer confined to making or receiving voice calls only; rather with new value added services being introduced, subscribers are trying something new everyday. We are here to help. Trained customer service agents are within easy reach; ready with personalized support related to all our products and services.

Best customer service: One number for all 121:

In a first changing world the role of the mobile phone is increasing day by day; so are the demands of our subscribers. We understand that customer demands are no longer confined to making or receiving voice calls only; rather with new value added services being introduced, subscribers are trying something new everyday. We are here to help. Trained customer service agents are within easy reach; ready with personalized support related to all our products and services.

In effort to become more user friendly, a single Grameenphone Hotline number 121 for all customers was introduced. The Hotline number has a language option for English, Bangla, a six other local dialects: Barisal, Sylhet, Rajshshi, Chittagong, Noakhali, and Khulna. Grameenphone subscriber can dial the 24-hour Hotline number 121 from their Grameenphone mobile phones 365 days a year. The call centre capacity has become considerably enhance, thus reducing the waiting period to enter the Hotline.

With you all the time: Our trained call center professionals are available round the clock, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

We are here to help: By simply dialing 121/ 121 15 (to talk directly with our Customer Service Agent) you can find the answers to any query in the cheapest way. Our customer managers are always at hand to listen to any kind of complaints regarding our products and services – we promise you proper feedback. We provide information related to the different products and services we offer, to help you make the purchase decision that is most suitable to your communication needs.

Best customer service

operations in 6^th to 10^th floor. Every floor has a one team leader. Twenty four customer Manager working per roster under a Group leader. Customer Manager receives call from customer. Here is one thing Customer Manager try to receive subscriber call within Three second. Because Grameenphone always try to achieve customers satisfaction. Sometimes customer has been waiting for few minutes and they feel irritating. So Customer Service Division say that customer Manager must try to receive a call within three second.

Customers not only contact through voice call but also they contact with Online and email. Customer Service agent is making call GPs existing customer. They help the subscriber to solving their problems and also try to know their opinion. Grameenphones key account managers and Customer Service agent perform outbound call to customer.

Prioritized Hotline 121:

Grameenphone believe in the importance of human touch in the business world. As we step into our third year of providing innovative communication solutions, Business Solutions aims to provide you with enhanced priority services as we value your time in business. Grameenphone make every effort to take care of your all telecommunications needs. Our dedicated Key Account Managers and Customer Service Managers are assigned to provide prioritized service to Business Solutions subscriber’s right from the beginning of the relationship. Enjoy prioritized customer service by simply dialing 121. Dedicated customers care managers are available round-the-clock, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week only to serve you better. Business Solutions postpaid subscribers can call 121 absolutely free of cost. To find out more about our solutions call (9am-8pm) 01711880011-14.

Experience of Hotline 121:

An inbound call from a subscriber, she wanted to know about his FnF number and the rate of FnF. Then she disputes the rate of friends and family. She told me that Grameenphone Extra charged for that call. Then customer Manager checks her call list but here is no existing f n f number. Then the caller know that his fault.

Experience of Hotline 121:

A customer calls in 121. He said that he had another Grameenphone Sim. Sometimes he used this sim. One day he was trying to use this sim but he can’t. He knows that this sim is invalid. Then he called the Hotline and wanted to know what the problem is.

Telesales:

Scope of work:

Develop strategies for the Telesales department to establish Customer Service as a major sales channel
Planning, facilitating and follow up the telesales in Inbound & OutboundContactCenter

Telemarketing or Telesales is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits to prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled during the call. Telemarketing can also include recorded sales pitches programmed to be played over the phone via automatic dialing. Telemarketing has come under fire in recent years, being viewed as an annoyance by many.

Out of one hundred phone calls, 99% People will say ‘NO’ and one person buy. Yet phone sales or telesales from a telemarketing call centre is every effective for selling lower to medium ticket priced items with just one phone call. It also be effective for selling high ticket items, but this offer takes more than one telemarketing call and is a process or series of calls before the final sale is made. Telesales or phone sales in highly effective for certain types of products or services. A one call close is the goal of this type of sales. It is generally and item which projects already known something about and can make an immediate decision about whether they need or what that right now.

Main Responsibility of the Telesales:

(a) Making live calls to potential customer and explaining them about the product that Grameenphone offer and to any query they might have, convincing them to work with company was actual reason and target,

(b) Achieving individual targets on daily, weekly and monthly basis,

Complaint Management:

Scope of work:

Professionalize complaint management in the whole company;
Handling complaints as a 2nd line to all GP customer contact points;
Handling written queries, requests and 1st line complaints;

Complaints arise when customer are dissatisfied with a service. An expression of dissatisfaction with the organizations procedures, changes, employees, agent or quality of service. To find the right type of solution, you need to understand the nature of the customer’s dissatisfaction. Some complaints are not appropriate for a particular resolution system, and some cannot be resolved. In these cases, you must still treat complaints with respect and fully explain the reasons why your organization cannot accept or resolve their complaint.

Various complain has been coming from subscriber in GP contact center. Some complaints are not handle or appropriate solution given by the call center, Grameenphone center, or other customer service point. This type of complaint has been going to the complaint management.

Complaint management mainly works with those problems which are not solved by the customer Manager from 121. Complaint Management handling critical and normal problem through queries, request on mails, faxes and letter from customers. Complaint Management also works for Employee complain in the whole company. Employee may have some demand, queries, and other requirements. Complaints Management handles professional complain and follow up and consult it with Companies Management.

There are 4 Groups work under complain management. These are follows:

(1) Tech 1

(2) Tech 2

(3) Business and IR

(4) Subscription and Fraud.

Complaint management Department use some tools for solve complains. All the information and useful tools are founded in the xxx. In xxx link of all information, user manual, latest updates, useful tools are found. To access those tools the officer needs permission and user ID and password. The complain are assigned to the groups by the nature of problem link fax for international roaming will assigned to Business and IR teams. The officer gets the mail from the server and he put it in the folder. Then they distribute the work and solve them. Like this way the tech 1 team get complain and they own complain from the complain list. Tech 2 handle ERS problem. Complain Management deal with complaints as quickly as possible. Employees frequently handle complaints immediately at point of delivery.

Complain Scenario :

A customer informs the customer manager through 121. He received a call from a Gp number and promised incentives if he transfers TK. 500 to particular number. The victim subscriber sends this substantial balance in that number but he didn’t get any reward. Then he informs the Grameenphone Customer Service. In this situation Complaint management takes action to stop the fraud existing subscriber.

Resource Management:

Resources Management function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. “Resource management Department” as playing a major role in staffing, training and helping to manage people so that people and the organization are performing at maximum capability in a highly fulfilling manner.

Resource Management works under 4 categories. These are including:

(a)Forecasting & Scheduling

Scope of work

Data gathering
Data analysis
Forecasting
Scheduling
Developing and maintaining routing model

The basis of any good staffing plan is an accurate workload forecast. Without a precise forecast of the work to be expected, the most sophisticated effort to calculate staff numbers and create intricate schedule plans is wasted effort. The purpose of the forecast is to predict workload so that we can get the right number of staff in place to handle it. And there are many different situations in the call center environment that require a forecast to be done. The most common scenario for which we forecast is simply normal, day-to-day operations. But you may also require a forecast for special situations such as planning for new call type(s), opening a new center, a merger or acquisition, or a change in operating hours.

The final step in the forecasting process is an important one. There are many factors that influence the call centers workload and the smart workforce planner will have a process in place that considers all these factors in the forecasting process.

(b) Real Time Management

Scope of work:

Data gathering
Data analysis
Forecasting
Scheduling

Developing and maintaining routing model

The supervisor’s workplace in Infra Call Center Supervisor is designed for monitoring and managing all call center activities in real time.

Monitoring call center work:

Monitoring the process of distributing and processing calls in real time

Allows is keeping track of the whole process of call processing, by reviewing conveniently sorted. The set of current measures of call center performance

The number of simultaneously processed inbound calls

The number of simultaneously processed outbound calls

The number of working agents

The number of free agents

Maximum waiting time, etc.

The set of current measures of situations in queues:

Maximum waiting time in queue

The number of abandoned calls

The number of scheduled outbound calls, etc.

The set of current measures of agent performance:

The number of processed inbound and outbound calls

The number of missed calls

The average talk time

Work time, etc.

Graphical analyzer of trends of changing measures. Displays the trends of changes of supervisor-defined call center measures during any short time interval. Is used for tracking sudden changes – for example a spontaneous jump of load, – which enables to prevent a possible lowering of the service level. Notifications about overrun of a predefined interval by specific measures Configuring of notifications frees the supervisor from constantly monitoring the current call center work, while at the same time allowing the supervisor to maintain full control over key measures. Thus supervisor may timely intervene any call center activity when a warning appears, e.g. when the specified waiting time in queue is exceeded.

(c)Reporting & Follow-up:

Scope of work:

Development and maintenance of reporting
Report access management
Report analysis
Improvement initiatives
Reporting system adjustments

Reporting call center activity to senior level management and others in the organization can seem a daunting task. The wide variety of activities in a typical call center, the reality of senior management not having the time nor inclination to pour over detailed reports, and the fact that summary reports often gloss over important information all contribute to the challenge. Consequently, many diligently prepared reports either go unread or, worse, are misunderstood. Along with telephone contacts, a growing number of transactions involve e-mail, Internet services, IVR applications or some combination of these capabilities. As new ways of providing services are created – and subsequently demanded by customers – it becomes more critical and more involved to measure the service that customers are receiving, and their perceptions of that service.

(d)CS Systems:

1. IT Development request

1.CIA Ticket creation, deletion & modification

2.New Tool/System

3.Enhancement of existing tool/system

Implementation

2. Customer service system/tools

1.New Account Creation

2.Tool access problem

3. Malfunctioning

3. Planned/ Unplanned System& Service Downtime

Scope of work:

Interface with IT/Networks on systems/service availability and functionality
Play the role of bridge between Customer Service and Technology
Follow up systems and service trouble ticketing

Quality assurance:

Quality assurance is the process of verifying or determining whether products or services meet or exceed customer expectations. Quality assurance is a process-driven approach with specific steps to help define and attain goals. This process considers design, development, production, and service.

Quality assured service is the pillar of Service hosting business. Your service becomes popular when you ensure quality. Low price is another way to advance sales. But, if your service does not meet the required standards of quality, then the customer never uses it in future, even if you give it at the lowest price. Innovations, business strategies and trends keep changing. One thing that remains constant is consumers’ need for satisfaction. It is very important to understand the current and future customer needs, meet customer requirements, and strive hard to exceed customer expectations at all times.

Continual improvement must be a permanent objective of the company. The fact everyone knows is that the customers are willing to pay more to receive better service. However ensuring quality within the business is a discipline that is overlooked by companies, most of the time. It is usually not until you discover a major problem, that could have been avoided through quality control that you recognize the importance of it. Our customers are our major focus and eventually, they gain the benefits of the improvements that are made.

The Quality Management team and the Team Leader together follows up on the non-conformities for a team and conducts training sessions for the employees, as required. Thus ensures continual improvement for the services that we offer. Our customers are our major focus and eventually, they gain the benefits of the improvements that are made. Quality and customer delight have long been recognized as crucial for the success and survival of business in today’s competitive market. Grameenphone believes in providing an exceptional level of service to our customers. To support this commitment, we keep developing a number of initiatives that is clearly aimed at the continuous improvement of our services. With top quality service, we aim at creating delighted customers, who form the lifeblood of our business.

(a) We conduct regular quality monitoring and ensure that the quality of service provided is the best. Our customers are assured 100% quality service.

(b) Customers can save their valuable time, as the constant monitoring of the quality of the support engineers that work for them is done by our expert team.

(c) The techs get motivated each day, as we provide incentives and recognition based on the monitoring reports. This would definitely reflect in their work too.

Customer is the key of any service oriented Industry. Customer satisfaction involves the extent or the degree to which, a company’s services meet the requirements of its customer. Quality and customer delight have long been recognized as crucial for the success and survival of business in today’s competitive market. Quality Assurance is the process of verifying or determining whether service meets to exceed customer expectation. It is a process driven approach with specific steps to help define and attain goals. This process considers design, development and service.

Quality Assurance work under the customer services division. It is the bridge of all customer service division. Basically contact/call centre is a most important gate way of customer and the Organization. If any needs/assistant for customer, they communicate the customer manager via hotline. Subscribers also contact bye Fax, e-mail, and mail through complaint management. Call centre is the gate way of subscriber & the organization. Call centre agent always ready for fulfilling the customer satisfaction. Sometimes customer service agent got problem which was not solve this problem in meantime. Then customer manager need for help. This Situation Complaint management ready for help by back position. Basically call centre & complaint management work combined for ensure better customer service.

Quality Assurance is the process of verifying or determining whether service meets to exceed customer expectation. QA always observe how to deal with customer, how they meet the customer requirements. QA suggest the easy way of overcoming the problem.

QA introduce the efficient way of handling subscriber queries. Customer can save their valuable time, as the constant monitoring of the quality of support that work for them is done by expert team. QA try to forecast & maintain easier for customer by reducing the number of hotline OR waiting to reach the hotline. Ensure better service for the customer with one service solution & always establish quality standard dialogue.

An effective quality-assurance program can go a long way to increase buyer satisfaction and reduce service calls and customer complaints. It’s a true win-win situation: happier subscriber with better quality service, and happier Grameenphone with better profits.

Strategy and Planning:

Strategy is defined as the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term. Strategy works to create an advantage for the organization, through configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfill stakeholder expectations. Planning is a process for accomplishing purpose. It is blue print of business growth and a road map of development. It helps in deciding objectives both in quantitative and qualitative terms. It is setting of goals on the basis of objectives and keeping in view the resources. The planning helps to achieve these goals or target by using the available time and resources. To minimize the timing and resources also require proper planning.

It is also true that strategic planning may be a tool for effectively plotting the direction of a company; however, strategic planning itself cannot foretell exactly how the market will evolve and what issues will surface in the coming days in order to plan your organizational strategy. Therefore, strategic innovation and tinkering with the ‘strategic plan’ have to be a cornerstone strategy for an organization to survive the turbulent business climate.

Strategic planning is a very important business activity. It is also important in the public sector areas such as telecommunication. It is practiced widely informally and formally. Strategic planning and decision processes should end with objectives and a roadmap of ways to achieve those objectives. Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfill stakeholder expectation.

Strategy and Planning take notes overall customer services and line to attack how to work, target of customer service and customer service resolution. Founding business opportunity is a continuous process. Grameenphone always initiate new product and

services for his existing and potential customer. It also initiate for employees Health Safety Security Environment. Implemented different technique and manage campaign. Strategy and Planning works for internal value creation (IVC) issue.

4.8People and Process Development (main assignment):

Grameenphone exists to help customers get the full benefit of communications services in their daily lives. We are here to help. People & process Development engage in employee training, development & empowerment, establish customer friendly process. There are 4 Groups work under People & process Development. (PPD) function includes a variety of activities, and key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have and whether to use independent contractors or hire employees to fill these needs, recruiting and training the best employees, ensuring they are high performers, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring your personnel and management practices conform to various regulations. Activities also include managing your approach to employee benefits and compensation, employee records and personnel policies. However, they should always ensure that employees have — and are aware of — personnel policies which conform to current regulations. These policies are often in the form of employee manuals, which all employees have.

People and process development organizes various training for development of the employees. Such training aim to introduce various facilities to the customer like how to use mobile easily to the customer as well other benefit like EDGE, Data Transfer, Entertainment Services and so on. It also organized different campaign policy. The most important job of PPD is to justify whether any campaign or services are feasible for the customer or not. Then it steps forward to train the concerned employee in this. PPD initiate new campaign focusing on new business opportunity. For the development of customer service PPD develop customer centric process. If any customer centric new process will be progress PPD justify and test it. It also justifies the employee user friendly process. If any process develop for customer and the employee develop PPD test by User Acceptance Test (UAT). If any process not easy for both customer and employee it back to be substantiate process.

To encourage the employees it also organizes various recognized programmed. PPD runs an employer inspiring programmed every month namely Inform & Involve. There are Gradually Chill Out sessions, Highlighting achievement, Future goal And Challenges. There one is selected as the best employee nomination and the best performer is awarded with a crest and a certificate.

People and Process development helps to develop leadership. Employees are one of the most important assets of any organization. Transparency of their goal and performance measurement plays an important role in achieving target of the organization. GrameenPhone has implemented the following tools developed by Telenor to maintain this asset to reach its goal:

a) Telenor Leadership Development Process (TLDP):

Telenor has initiated an integrated process designed to evaluate, develop and reward managers in accordance with Telenor’s own leadership demands and business results. This process provides details of overall management capacity, management teams, key positions and extent to which GP recruits relevant expertise. Under the process, candidates for key positions are identified, along with training required to develop such positions. Talents are also identified, as are candidates for future management positions. This process also provides details relating to career objectives for managers and also reflects the diversity .TLDP also sets targets – financial and nonfinancial–and follow up in a systematic manner.

b) Internal Value Creation (IVC):

Each year employees respond to an IVC survey which comprises targets and management human capital, process capital, innovation and simplification. This process is one of several tools used for company’s ambition relating to bringing transparency and accountability relating to individual employees and the company itself. By comparing the result of the annual IVC survey

With TLDP, a basis is achieved for the implementation of improvement measures with respect to employees in general and managers in particular. GP believes in transparency and accountability to society as a whole through establishment of efficient and effective corporate governance. It also believes that this is a continuous process and will be always developed to further strengthen Grameenphone’s corporate governance functions in the years to come.

There are 4 groups work under people & process Development.

(1)Process Management:

Process Management is the assemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of process. It is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques and system to define visualized, measure and control, report and improve process with the goal to meet customer requirements profitably.

Management’s job is to develop the business and manufacturing process. The operator’s simple work within the boundaries of this process. If you want to keep your customer you have to be very careful about solving customer’s problem. When we are spending our time by saying “I am sorry. I will fix it up”. At that time we should develop processes that will make it unnecessary to ever say” I am sorry”. Focusing on the business process is really important for today’s competitive organizational environment. Because today’s organizations are customer oriented. Their main focus is to satisfy the customer. For businesses to be successful, it is necessary that the three critical dimensions of purpose, people and process are clearly aligned and work synergistically throughout the organization at the strategic, tactical and operational levels.

Scope of work:

(a) Define, refine, document and develop all customer processes in Customer Service

(b) Monitor, measure & follow up process efficiency

Process Management filtering the entire customer services process. Classify the customer services because all customers are not same. They need different type of services and process. For example in our country has different local language style. Customers feel more comfortable to use their local language.Grameenphone launch six local languages in their call centre. The Hotline number has a language option for English, Bangla, and a six other local dialects: Barisal, Sylhet, Rajshshi, Chittagong, Noakhali, and Khulna.

Processes management observes the process of customer service and evaluates launching procedure. They are always trying to make more efficient and make simpler for initiate customer services.

(2)Employee Involvement:

Employee involvement is creating an environment in which people have an impact on decisions and actions that affect their jobs. Employee involvement is not the goal nor is it a tool, as practiced in many organizations. Rather, employee involvement is a management and leadership philosophy about how people are most enabled to contribute to continuous improvement and the ongoing success of their work organization. To raise employee awareness of opportunities to save energy and contribute to a healthy work environment, form a green team at work.

While debate exists about recycling and other aspects of environmentalism, a green team is motivational for employees who want to make a difference in their work environment.

Grameenphone has been giving different facilities for their employees. To encourage the employees GP will be launce new facilities. This department takes corrective step for employee facilitation. What is the customers demand? To know about customer pulse, their facilities, and their emotion.

The company offers a wonderful and friendly working environment in the office. Grameenphone has conducive and safe working environment. The Company’s intent is to establish a good working relationship through a mutual understanding of expectations. They believe in working in a team and demonstrate team spirit to maximize and excel in standard quality service to their valued subscribers in the area of telecommunication. Employees work in an environment where they feel valued, responsible and supported by the authority as well as by their colleagues. They arrange various attractive entertainment event like as outing in any tourist area, lunch party etc. Wishing and celebrates someone birth day, marriage anniversary and many more.

(3) Development Initiatives:

Pre-arrange and build up training strategy for the employee. Go forward for implement of Different path focusing on customer. For increasing employee knowledge PPD Encourage to getting better understanding about Grameenphone websites. Grameenphone always launched new product and service. In pre-marketing stage PPD justify its user acceptance and initiate marketing campaign. Development strategy is the management’s idea on how to best:

Attract Customer
Skate out a market position
Conduct operations
Compete effectively
Achieve goals
Create Value

Scope of work:

Develop structured training plans, modules and modes
Evolve customer-centric concepts
Knowledge Management (e.g. web portal, self-learning initiatives)
Campaign Management

It is a learning process that involves the acquisition of knowledge, sharpening of skills, concepts, rules, or changing of attitudes and behaviors to enhance the performance of employees. Training is about knowing where you stand at present, and where you will be after some point of time. Training is about the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities through professional development. However, holding an engineering degree is not enough to survive in the Telecom Sector. There is constant need of updating of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. With this rapid growth in Telecom Sector, the need for trained professionals in bound to rise and so is the training need.

With the increase in competition, availability of huge amount of information through internet, magazines, newspapers, TV, etc, and increased awareness among customers, the demand to impart proper training in non-technological areas like customer care and marketing has increased too. Rapid technological changes, network security threat, mobile application development, growing IP deployment in the sector have brought back the training and development in the priority catalog.

On-the job training is an important way in which people acquire relevant knowledge and skills at work. Here it is important to make the distinction between training and learning – this is critical to the effective design and delivery of training in organizations.

In a sense therefore, we are more interested in promoting on-the-job learning than on-the-job training. However, using the well-established term, on-the-job training can be defined as an activity undertaken at the workplace which is designed to improve an individual’s skills or knowledge. On-the-job Training is a well-established and well-used intervention designed to enhance individual skills and capabilities with the characteristics of:

(a) being delivered on a one-to-one basis and taking place at the trainee’s place of work

(b) requiring time to take place, including potential periods when there is little or no useful output of products or services

The advantages of using OJT

(1) Training can be delivered at the optimum time: for example immediately before a job is to be performed ‘for real’ in the workplace.

(2) The trainee will have opportunities to practice immediately.

(3) The trainee will have immediate feedback.

(4) Training is delivered by colleagues and can go someway to integrate the trainee into the team.

Scope of work:

Organize & execute yearly training plans focusing on development roadmap & leadership programs
Initiate multi skill-set, on demand, ad-hoc development plans to enrich employee competence
Evaluation & follow-up

Process for Training Participation:

1. Start
2. Preparation of primary list with the help of Resource Management
3. Make initial call to the selected participants to ensure their presence [2 days prior to the training]
4. Decision: Participants available?

4.1. If No: Shift to another schedule

4.2. If Yes: Send conformation mail to the participants with cc to supervisors [2 days prior to the training]

5. SMS conformation to participants with details [venue, time etc.] [1 day prior to training]
6. Send reminder SMS to participants [Minimum 2/3 hrs before training]
7. Conduct training
8. End

Language Skills Course for Customer Service

Language Skills Course for Customer Service, a training program to enhance Bengali standard pronunciation and that of technical words of Customer Managers was kicked off on May 17, 2009 at Junction Training Room, 2nd Floor, Nitol-NiloyTower.

This training program was custom designed for a group of 30 Customer Managers with regards to their individual, as well as, group skills development need on aforementioned development

Each participant will receive 32 learning hours divided over 4 consecutive weeks through group lecture sessions, one on one coaching sessions and individual assessment and feedback. At the opening session, Shahriar A. Chowdhury, Head of HR Development & Yeasir Mahmood Khan, Head of People & Process Development were present to welcome the first and second batch of participants respectively. The course was organized by HR Development, designed and executed with cooperation of People & Process Development, Customer Service and IR Consulting Limited.

Scenario 1

When I join the Customer Service Division I was involved in People and Process Department. First day I was meeting in with Gjermund Lia. He informs me about the customer service. He said that Grameenphone is a largest mobile phone company in Bangladesh. Grameenphone always try to give better service for his subscriber and try to initiates new services. He inform us to Grameenphone filed its final application for initial public offering of USD 65 million with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in January 2009, and is awaiting approval from the SEC. He also introduced me different customer service division and head of the every division. Then Mr. Ruhul Amin Head of People and process Development assigned me in PPD.

Scenario 2

First day of the PPD I was sent to a nice man Mr. Maksudur Rahaman in training division. He discussed about the Grameenphone, its services, products, employees, and how to work customer service Division and its different department. Customer service division has seven departments under work Commercial division. Each department initiates different strategy and goal. Here PPD involve in Develop leadership, employee development and empowerment and establish customer friendly processes and efficient information flow. Then I was sent to my internship Supervisor Mr. Moshiur Rahman Coordinator of People and Process Development. Here my first assignment was too introduced in every section of PPD and how they work, what is their responsibility. Sami Saif boss of process management inform about responsibility of his department. Process Management basically works for customer. These departments classify the customer for implemented different product and services. Justify all documents about the product and services initiate it in different customer segment. New process improvement and make it more efficient for customer and initiate continuously Processes Improvement.

Then I participated in three days training session. Here first session is personal introductory session. At that time we play a game name as round table game. All trainers participated with us. Then they discussed us about needs of training, training objective and different session of our training. First they told us about the manner of customer manager, how the customer manager speaks.

In the afternoon session started with warm up. How to handle the phone? What are standard greetings? How much care of customer and why?

The last day of training taught us about friendly and caring interaction. It may be achieved if you follow the following rules:

Started with standard greetings and genuine smile
Active listening
Easy and clear communication with positive approach
Personal warmth, empathy and established report.

If you follow those rules, you made to be an efficient customer manager.

People and Process development always try to motivate the employee by employee recognition, engaging in various projects. Aim to create leadership quality in the employee. Thus goes on different process like campaign, seminar and training. He is trained with the capability how to maintain a subordinate official to chain of control.

It also undertakes various steps for the development and empowerment of the employees. For this employees are being engaged in project and improvement activities. The employees working avenue is widen and they are given more scope to utilize their potentiality and creativity with more freedom.

To encourage the employees it also organizes various recognized programmed. PPD runs an employer inspiring programs every month namely Inform and Involve. Inform and involve is divided into different session. These are gradually chill out session, Highlighting achievement, and future goal.

In this session PPD declares the nominees of best group, nominees of best employer. There one is selected as the best employee nomination and the best performer is awarded with a crest and a certificate. Some heart thrilling cultural ceremony are arrange through inform and involve and finally all employer is entertained with food box.

10^th & 11^th Inform & Involve

The 10^th & 11^th session of Inform & Involve was concluded successfully on April 30, 2009 & 14^th at the Customer Service Department.

“Inform & Involve,” is an inspirational employee event for Customer Service members. It is a unique team session to share operational updates, priorities and significant achievements, through participation and ‘chill-out’ sessions, where future goals and challenges of Customer Service are also discussed.

The program focuses on involving Grameenphone customer service members in continuous improvement efforts, taking in consideration each member’s opinion and views with due importance. The best performers of each department are also given formal appreciation and recognition during the event.

The session started with a surprise performance by Stian Syvertsen, Head of Telesales, Customer Service. Who welcomed everyone in Bangla and sang an english song, to the delight the audience. Gjermund Lia, Head of Customer Service, then took the floor and welcomed the members. He also thanked the guests from HR who also inspired the event with their presence.

Gjermund continued the program with a presentation emphasizing the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI), and Strategic objectives with major action plans, i.e. Outbound Project start-up, IPO Customer Service, Talent Hunt, some challenges and our way forward. This monthly sharing of updates involved the members and ensured their active participation and interaction with Management.

Gjermund paid a special thanks to Mr. Ferdous Ahmed, Chief of Customer Management Department, for taking the time to be present at the program. He welcomed Ferdouss on the floor and requested him to share a few words. Mr. Ferdous Ahmed appreciated such an initiative and gave his thanks and gratitude to all the Customer Service Members for being there beside the customers.

The Performance Recognition Program for the months of March & April 2009 followed and Gjermund handed over the certificates, along with letter of appreciation by the department heads, to the best performers.

Added attractions of the program included, songs, dances, news presentation and a humorous mime – all performed by our colleagues. Lastly the “Fastest Fingers” SMS contest and an effective Q&A session with the CS management team ended the session.

The “Inform & Involve” sessions are now being recognized as one of the major employee events in the year. The Customer Service Division looks forward to this successful journey in the months ahead.

Preventing problem from not reoccurring, we should prevent problem from occurring in the first place.

Customers and stockholders want perfection:

Quality: – is doing the job right every time.

Perfection: – is doing the right job right every time

Working Environment:

There are numerous organizations that we can take as an ideal working Environment and I personally think that is one of those organizations where an employee can find the maximum satisfaction in reference to the environment. My personal achievements from the very starting day in the company, would clarify the various aspects of an ideal environment which I learnt from this organization.

I had to undergo with some process before I was appointed as a Grameenphone. At the beginning I first went in for an interview with HR Executive and secondly by the project manager whose projects the Customer Service were being hired for. With the blessing of almighty a, I was qualified for the next stage which was with the Director of Customer Service who actually created my first impression of the employees working here. The time I entered his room I was a bit nervous, but after sitting for few minutes he made me start enjoying the interview and made me show my best level of confidence, which he later really appointed and mentioned in specific. Undoubtly he was a jolly minded and a self motivated inspiration and I acquired a high level confidence after the interview.

My practical work began when I was sent to the floor 12^th in People and process Development, I joined My project and was assigned to shadow the senior agent which was a process of learning by listening to the senior CS’s making live calls to polish the communication skills and remove any queries one had I found my senior agents very friendly and helpful and consequently I made my first 30 min of dialing as was appreciated by all. They would help remove any query with out hesitation and will be more then happy for assistance.

Not only my team members, but also my Supervisor, and director were frank and would talk to me as I am one of there levels or positions, I would not feel the difference. So finally Grameenphone turned out to be one of an ideal in reference for the ideal working environments to me.

Grameenphone celebrates every major occasion like Eid,Valentines day, pohela boishakh, and important national day of Bangladesh. The most I Enjoyed was the Pohela boishakh., this kept me enjoy more at Grameenphone and all waited for any occasion or event to be celebrated at Grameenphhone. To get more out of the employee’s productivity Grameenphone would offer some prizes on hitting achievement.

Overall, the work environment was very lively and friendly, and wanted full commitment of every single CSR’s because CSR are the people who are generating revenue for organization and without them the telecommunication service is not possible to ensure this, Every step possible was taken to make sure that the employees feel secure and comfortable and also enjoy what they are doing.

Employee participation is always appreciated, Open Door policy along with a proper process is defined for every employee to communicate with top level management and if needed. Grameenphone offer “idea generation” contest and argue all employer to participate in the competition by providing your ideas. Apart from recognizing all the participants, The Champion, Second and third best idea providers will also be rewarded with attractive prizes.

Grameenphone also takes preventive and safety measures to avoid all sorts of hazardous situation that might take place in some areas of technical functions.

With its present status GP aims to expand and grow at a faster pace by utilizing the best possible opportunities and expansion of Network throughout the whole country. This enormous task requires dedicated, devoted and committed manpower.

Experience & Learning:

Having an experience of a reputed organization has one huge advantage, it makes you more professional and professionalism is the key to success. Working with a Grameenphone added a great value to my skill knowledge and abilities and hence gave me a chance to relate my studies in the practical working environments, my communication skills improved and the I feel more confident then I was and this experience helped me broaden my vision and more practical. Working in an organization does not limit your experience to just one department that you are assigned with but actually the organization is running with a systematic collaboration of the departments and hence requires communications and interaction. Well that’s it that the point that you should not ignore, and always keep your mind and heart open for the experience. If you are in a situation and have interactions, your studies are being implemented in practical environment there. You are not by passing your boss, because you understand that organizational hierarchy is defined and proper communication channels are available which should be used. OR. YOU wont show resistant to change cause you studied that “change is the only constant” and hence necessary for organizational development and employees survival. Keen observation and acceptance and implementation of different theories and approaches on what’s happening around us are what we were supposed to do during internship.

Recognition @ Fun at Work

Grameenphone always try to celebrate their employees. In this arena they arrange various recognized programmed. In every year Grameenphone celebrate their employee namely as “GP- NIGHT”. In this year the Grameenphone family met at the BashundharaConvention Center on a pleasant mid-April evening for the ‘GP Night’. The program was organized to promote the “Grameenphone Way” of meeting promises, being accessible and engaging with the customer.

Grameenphone also takes preventive and safety measures to avoid all sorts of hazardous situation that might take place in some areas of technical functions.

Magic of Closeness:

The people of Grameenphone are young, dedicated and energetic. All employees are well educated at home or abroad, with an even distribution of males and females and social groups in Bangladesh. They know in their hearts that Grameenphone is more than phones. This sense of purpose gives them the dedication and the drive, producing the biggest coverage and subscriber-base in the country. Grameenphone provides equal employment opportunities and recognizes the talents and energy of its employees.

Brand Story:

We have come a long way in the last 12 years. This has been a story of success, a story of magic. We have been the integral part of 20 million lives, delivering magic of closeness in moments to remember, and moments to savor. In the coming days, we will aim to win even bigger, and achieve even greater heights. We will strengthen our market leadership, with pioneering initiatives to improve our customers’ lives. We will be the most celebrated and admired brand of the country, and stay close to the heart of our customers. As an employer, we want to be the most desired destination for the best talents of this country. We want to achieve bigger success in revenues and growth.

We will transform as a team to fortify our strengths and nullify our weaknesses. We will go the distance to care for our team members. We will be more accessible to each other irrespective of hierarchy or position, by being open to ideas and suggestions, feedbacks and points of view. We will respect the effort of every individual, and recognize the every bits of drive. We will practice an engaging work culture with lots of cross-functional cooperation.

Now we have a home, our Central Head Quarters, our magic factory. As a team we will stay closer to each other, and the ‘magic of closeness’ will touch us as well. In this new journey as a team, we will reinforce our customer focus through renewed commitment towards our Vision & Values, Codes of conduct, Governing principles and Leadership expectations. The coming days will be story of achieving new heights in the delivery of ‘Magic of Closeness’.

Magic happens when two souls stay close:

It was in that essence of magic – the magic of closeness – that the Grameenphone family met at the BashundharaConvention Center on a pleasant mid-April evening for the ‘GP Night’. The program was organized to promote the “Grameenphone Way” of meeting promises, being accessible and engaging with the customer. After all, the highs and lows of life turn into smiles and tears, the success and achievements turn into joy and fulfillment when people can stay close to their near and dear ones.

Grameenphone CEO, Oddvar Hesjedal, along with his equally enthused management team stood center stage and raised the bar and the expectations for employees to be Caring, Accessible, and Respectful & Engaging. The CXOs also took on roles as champions for ensuring the desired values within Grameenphone: The CEO took on “Care”; Arif Al Islam, DCEO & CFO, “Making Things Easy”; Rubaba Dowla, CCO, “Engagement & Teamwork”; Arnfinn Groven, CHRO, took on “Promise Delivery”; Titus Dan, CMO, took on “Respect”; Raihan Shamsi, CCAO, took on “Accessibility”; and Frode Støldal, CTO, took on “Inspiration.

The evening was not just about the future but also looking and thanking the past. Twenty employees were honored for 12 years of service with Grameenphone – which placed them among the original employees who started working for the company when Grameenphone was no more than a promise!

The fun-filled evening also featured two short Audio-Visual clips on Grameenphone and how far it has come and on “living the values.” An enchanting music video on Grameenphone sung by the employees themselves was also screened to the excitement of the over 4000 employees present. Some young members of Apangaon, a center for the rehabilitation of drug-abusers who activities Grameenphone sponsors as part of its CST initiatives, came up on stage to perform live. Later in the evening, live shows by popular ballad singer “Balam” and band “Miles” enlivened the evening further, elevating the passion and the spirit of closeness as the night progressed.

The evening was filled with music and celebrations… and food. To anyone that was there that night it was clearly evident that while our customers are at the core of everything we do, ‘magic of closeness’ is truly at the heart of our company and among the employees. It should be noted, however, that not everyone could manage to be there that evening. We should particularly acknowledge the dedication and sacrifice of nearly 300 or our colleagues who manned their desks or continued in the field… keeping the customer needs number one!

Customer Service Overview:

Customer service point:

Grameenphone service desk where launched in July with a mission to take customer service to the customer door step. As result, within early 2006, more than 600 GPSDs started countrywide operation down to every upzilla-level so as to serve the customer better. These service desks have remarkably reduced the travel time for customers from as much eight hours to a maximum of ten hour. Up reaching 5 days between 10:00 am -6:00pm , the original idea was later expanded to include the concept of mobile GPSD setup to meet the customers latent need for a mobile both from where customer managers could delivery the required after sales service.

Grameenphone centers provide a ‘one stop solution’ for all customers, with all telecommunications products and services under a single roof. The Grameenphone centers are designed to increase the customer satisfaction by integrating sales and after sales service in an open, friendly and comfortable environment. All these efforts have enabled Grameenphone to remain the most preferred mobile phone service in the Market.

Online customer Service:

Grameenphone on line customer service:

Online-based customer service has completed its first year in december2007. Grameenphone online customer services stared journey with a very new idea and develop it into a reliable channel for customers to get information and service from Grameenphone. In spite of the low internet penetration rate in the country, a good number of Grameenphone customers used the Grameenphone online customer service as a customer window in the past year.

In addition, a large number of customers were also served through responses to written queries via email, faxes and latter.

The focus now is to move to the next level with an ambition “to provide the best- in-class customer service in Asia’s by establishing the most reliable, friendly and quality customer service.

Customer Services Scenario:

In order to retain the number of position in telecom operation of Bangladesh, Grameenphone Customer Service Division plays the most important role. Grameenphone main target is to offer their customers best services by providing proper valuation of subscriber’s precious money and time.The customer service division has set up a target of obtaining customer satisfaction level o at least 85%. These 85% is for the customer groups of Youth ( djuice), Channel 155(flexiload operation), EDGE, and consumer, Channel 155(GP centre employee), and billpay. On the other Grameenphone one of the business philosophies is to give the greatest priority to corporate clients. GP always try to maintain minimum 95% Customer satisfaction of businesses group. Second priority is given to consumer group in terms of service level.

A few of customer said that customer manager didn’t resolve their problems instantly. Customer Manager can resolve some problems without the dependency of other unit. Some problems that can’t resolve by a customer manager other himself for the reason of dependency of other. All customer manager did not access in all software because of security, privacy of subscribe and access limitation of those software.

Sometimes the service attitude of customer manager can make subscriber dissatisfied. On the average a customer managers have to receive minimum 150 calls per day with maintaining a certain log in hour and it is not an easy to maintain a good services attitude at the end of the day as in every day. It s usually that some customer done a rude behave Cuanager and sometimes use slang to the customer manager. For this it is not easy to provide a good service attitude to the up coming customer. Call centre management should look after the service attitude of customer manager and give them proper direction as well as look after their mental situation.

Voice call through PayForMe

Emergency!! Need to make a call – but you do not have sufficient balance.

Do not worry – use Grameenphone’s PayForMe. Now, a GP subscriber can call another GP subscriber even if the caller does not have sufficient balance.

To avail this service, a subscriber needs to dial *123* followed by the intended number and press the hash key (#), i.e. *123*017xxxxxxxxx#. If the intended receiver agrees to pay, the receiver will be charged for the call (The caller must have an active SIM to avail this service).

The intended receiver of the PayForMe call will hear a recorded message asking whether s/he is willing to receive the call and accept the charges. If willing, the receiver will press 1, or else, press 2. Usual GP-GP tariff as per the receiver’s product will be applicable (peak, off-peak and pulse rate included; but not F&F rates).

A maximum of 4 (four) PayForMe call can be made in a day. If a particular subscriber (A) is rejected twice by another particular subscriber (B) in a single day, then the subscriber (A) will not be able to make any PayForMe requests to that particular subscriber (B) for the rest of that day. That is, in total, each subscriber can make a maximum of 4 PayForMe calls can be made in a particular day and a maximum of 2 (two) PayForMe calls can be made to a particular subscriber in a particular day.

Any GP Pre-paid (SMILE, djuice and Business Solutions Prepaid) or Post-paid (Xplore and Business Solutions Postpaid) subscriber can enjoy this service.

Stay Close:

Welcome to the largest family in Bangladesh! With 90,000 points of sales and over 5,000 dedicated employees committed to provide you with the best customer experience throughout the country, we are committed to help you “Stay Close”.

Everything we do is a relentless pursuit to help you to stay close to your near and dear ones and to the things that matter in your lives. Life takes its own path where distance is created between you and your loved ones. In overcoming those barriers, building and nurturing relationships, Grameenphone is proud to be with you always. That is the promise that has made us a family of over 18 million members. We are committed in our efforts to help you stay close.

Benefits:

Our customer support team will assist you with the following services:

Take care of any specific queries you may have, or respond to any special needs for assistance.

Provide your company with overview of all your company’s subscriptions and mobile users.

Provide you with an overview of all mobile usage and decide billing options (e.g. itemized billing, pre-paid invoicing)

Make all the necessary arrangements for you to subscribe our service/s (without your physical presence in the customer service center.)

Add new users to your account or create new Closed User Group (CUG) for special call rates.

Set up of additional features such as Mobile Data Access, Mobile E-mail etc.

Recommendation &Conclusion:

Recommendations:

Grameenphone is doing well in terms of different mobile operators. But during my internship period I felt that there should be some measure to enhance those operation and in some cases to recover some lacking. Today’s customers are much more conscious than previous. Now they have lots of option. They can choose their product from among many competitors. So it’s getting tough for the companies to retain customer. Companies should remember one thing maximizing profit in the short run doesn’t provide the best return on investment organizations that focus on building their reputation are going to provide the best long term.

Customer remembers a company under 2 conditions:-

1. When companies provide extremely poor products and services

2. When companies provide surprisingly good products or service. What I felt is like this-

Today is competitive market. Here scope not only in making call but also different business segment. Increasing the capacity of the system infrastructure based on the present subscriber telecom operators concentrate mainly on the selling of their products but little consideration on the after sales service. For this drawback, it is observed that most of the subscribers experience services dissatisfaction within a sort period of their product purchase. This cause the customer to discontinue utilization of the product giving rise to lose of company revenue and earning an appealing reputation.

GP reduces their tariff, but it is applicable in different time schedule. Subscribers want a flat time and tariff. So they should take those kinds of marketing plan.
Need more awareness build up about dialing code (121 15) to reach to customer Manager. So that individuals who require the immediate assistant of agents do not have to go through the botheration of listening of the entire menu of IVR at their expenses.
Try to keep the Customer Managers motivated for providing better services. This will make the Customer feel that the company regards them as an essential part of their organization and is always available to provide them with satisfactory customer service.
Increasing manpower for call centre and build up them accordingly by allocating proper shifting. This ensures that the customers have to undergo prolonged waiting time in order to receive any service. More over, it also certifies that the company can handle the call pressure during peak hours. So that they do not lose any customer.
Increase different Value added services. Because subscriber wants new product and services.

Uses of GPRS, Welcome Tune and Ring Tones/logos are expectable but they need to increase highest level of user to promote the VAS. Even they should inform the customer about positive benefit of total VAS.

Using Satisfaction level regarding the different products should be retained by taking necessary measures like monitoring and controlling the total operation, if there is any error. A research can be conducted on the dissatisfied consumers to sort out the factors that determine their dissatisfaction.

It has been found that the concentration of the consumers is most within a specific range of incoming person. Some measures or strategy should be taken as if call price can be decrease. So that low incoming citizen can be use. And beside that consumers can increase.

The most stimulating factor that attracts consumer is the better service of the Grameenphone. Measures should be taken as if it can maintain this goodwill as well other aspect of the Grameen should be improvised

All over they should focus on more active advertisements on different media to introduce there product and services on mass people.

Conclusion:

Objective of this internship program have not been fulfilled with complete satisfaction. However, highest effort has been given to achieve the objective of customer satisfaction regarding different types Customer Services of Grameenphone. The mobile industry is growing at a phenomenal pace these days. With an annual growth rate of 132% in the industry itself, Grameenphone can be said to be the fastest growing industry in the country. Grameenphone made its mark with the launch of its first package where mobile was made more affordable. It has kept its promise of making mobiles affordable not only through reducing its own prices, but it has managed to shake the rest of the industry into taking action. The whole industry is now at the height of its competition, with customers quietly reaping the benefits offered them. Through lower call rate, innovative packages with free sms, thank you bonus and talk time Grameenphone has been able to reach all levels of customers very soon. At present more then 21000000 subscribers are the proud for the company to develop a favorable association with the brand image. Though Grameenphone is providing some unique facilities to gain customer attention but due to moderate network coverage it has failed retain their customer. Grameenphone is already holding Number one position and as a brand is liked by the customers’ also different Products/VAS are attractive. If Grameenphone now concentrate on improve their network and reduce all problem different types of VAS then it will be very constructive for their sustainable growth in telecommunication market of Bangladesh.

So the best in class Customer Services in Asia to gain competitive advantage for Grameenphone in the market place.