Grameenphone join hands with Akhoni.com

DHAKA, Nov. 18 (NsNewsWire) — Grameenphone customers now will be able to browse Akhoni.comweb portal for free after signing an exclusive partnership agreement with Akhoni.com recently.
Under this Agreement, Grameenphone customers will be able to avail this service for free usingtheir default handset browser and Opera Mini browser, said the country’s largest cell phone operator in a statement on Tuesday.
GP customers will also enjoy BDT 50discount on their first purchase from Akhoni.com. Akhoni.com, the pioneer E-Commerce portal in Bangladesh that enables anyone from anywherein Bangladesh and from around the world to purchase different items/products through online.Md. Asif Touhid, Chief Procurement Officer of Grameenphone and Sayed Ashraf MohammedIqbal, Head of Finance of Akhoni.com signed the agreement on behalf of their respectivecompanies. This is the first ever partnership between an E-Commerce platform and telecomoperator in Bangladesh.“This agreement aims to establish long term co-operation between Akhoni.com andGrameenphone and we look forward to launch more services for the benefit of our customersusing this platform,” said Mahmud Hossain, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of Grameenphone.Grameenphone has been strongly promoting its ambition of ‘Internet for All’ and the agreementwith Akhoni.com will give another reason to its customers to use Internet and being benefittedfrom the data connectivity.