Today the telecom market leader in Bangladesh,Grameenphone has finally announced the long deserving tarrif plan. With the announcement of three new price packages Shohoj, Aapon,
Bondhu, along with djuice,
the pre-paid subscribers will enjoy a greatly reduced call rate as well as other benefits. The packages are interchangeable and easy to
migrate.

Grameenphone has confirmed that the Existing users can switch to the new
packages free of cost by next
month. New subscribers will also have the advantage of the new tarrif plan when they buy the connection at a reduced price. Any Grameenphone user can now switch to djuice, or vice versa. Tk 10 will be charged after April 13 for migration.

The Shohoj package will let
users who need to call all
mobile networks and offers
callers a low, flat rate of Tk
0.79 a minute and SMS at Tk 1
to any operator.
The Aapon package offers a
special daytime tariff
(12pm-4pm) and nighttime
tariff (12am-8am) of Tk 0.49
a minute.

Aapon users can
also call at Tk 0.49 a minute
and send SMS at Tk 0.50 to
three Grameenphone FnF
(friends and family) numbers
any time and SMS to any
operator at Tk 1.

The Bondhu package is for
users whose calls are usually
limited to a tight FnF circle.
This package offers the
highest number of FnFs and
users can call seven FnF
numbers at Tk 0.49 a minute
any time. Calls to all other
numbers are Tk 0.99 a
minute. SMS rates are Tk 0.50
a SMS to GP numbers and Tk 1
to other operator numbers.

However, the instructions for switching to packages has not yet been on the net. Watch the space for detail as soon as I get them,

So, who are you? Apon, Shohoj or Bondhu?