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Send e-mails thru' your GP set

MUSTAK HOSSAIN
About 20 lakh subscribers of the country's largest mobile phone operator GrameenPhone (GP) Limited would be able to send and receive e-mails (electronic mail) from their handsets through a new service called 'cellemail'.
"The system would increase the country's e-mail users to 1.5 percent from current 0.1 percent," Mehboob Chowdhury, director (sales and marketing) of the GP, told The Daily Star in an exclusive interview yesterday. People would be able to send and receive e-mails from their GP handsets without using any computer and e-mail account with Internet service providers, he added.
The GP has introduced the system considering less computer penetration in the country, Mehboob said.
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2002-2003, the country's personal computers per 1,000 people stood at 1.9. Bangladesh Computer Samity, an association of computer vendors, put the number at 7 lakh in the current year.
"We believe that the new facility would be able to reduce the digital divide and motivate people to be IT (Information Technology) friendly," said the top GP executive.
Youths would be benefited most from the service and able to get rid of their shyness in the IT, he added.
The unique service would enable subscribers to remain connected with their email account.
Without paying any additional charge, GP subscribers would have to send an SMS (Short Message
Service) to 2233 from their handsets to register themselves with the service.
To register, they will just write an SMS: reg/register, their desired ID name and send it to the operator's server. Registration confirmation will be notified by a return SMS.
For each SMS, subscribers will be charged Tk 2.00 plus 15 percent value added tax.
The system will provide a globally accessible identity styled as yourname@cellemail.net, mail inbox check and management facility, mail reading facility of maximum 3X160 characters, VIP email ID facility with automated notification alerts on e-mail arrivals. It will also feature address book and signature.
If any GP subscriber is reluctant to receive e-mails from any particular ID, he/she would be able to block e-mail ID or domain extension as blacklist.
Inforev Limited, a local software company, supports the system on behalf the GP, which has its network in all the districts and most upazila and growth centres.
However, the system will be formally launched through a ceremony soon. Detailed information is available at www.cellemail.net.