the grameen group has grown into many groups of profitable and non-profit, such as the grameen trust, the grameen fund, grameen software limited, grameen cybernet limited, grameen knitwear limited, grameen telecom, and grameenphone (gp) (grameenphone is the biggest private sector phone company in bangladesh). the village phone (polli phone) project of grameenphone has made it possible for 260,000 poor people in over 50,000 villages to own mobile phones since march 1997.