A.6 Abbreviations

ADB - Asian Development Bank
BR - Bangladesh Railway
BRAC - Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
BRTA - Bangladesh Rural Telecom Authority
BTTB - Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board
CDC - Commonwealth Development Corporation
CDMA - Code division multiple access (cellular phone standard)
Erlang - A measure of telephone traffic
GB - Grameen Bank
GC - Grameen Communications
GCN - Grameen Cybernet
GP - GrameenPhone Ltd.
GNP - Gross National Product
GS - Grameen Shakti ("Energy")
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications (cell phone standard)
GTC - Grameen Telecom
IFC - International Finance Corporation
ISD - International Straight Dialing
Lac/Lakh - Numeric worth 100 thousand taka (expressed as 1,00,000 taka)
MOPT - Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
NWD - Nation-Wide Dialing
PCO - Public calling office
TDMA - Time division multiple access (cellular phone standard)
Telenor AS - The state-owned telecommunications company of Norway
VAT - Value Added Tax
VP, VPP - Village Phone, Village Pay Phone
WLL - Wireless local loop

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