Cell phones in Kazakhstan
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Russia and Central Asia Q1 2009 Regional Roundup The last twelve months has seen a total of 41.8m new customers in the Russia and Central Asia region. Of these, 6.86m came in the final period, the first three months of 2009....KazakhTelecom to Sell Mobile Network Subsidiary Kazakhstan's dominant landline operator, KazakhTelecom has announced plans to sell its 51% stake in its mobile phone network subsidiary, Mobile Telecom-Service. ...MTS Eyes Purchases in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan Russia's Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is eyeing possible acquisitions in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, its Chief Executive Officer, Mikhail Shamolin said in an interview...Kazakhstan Telecoms Market Tops $3 Billion in 2008 The Kazakhstan telecoms market was worth KZT 379 billion (US$3.2 billion) in 2008 - representing 3% of the country's GDP, reports the official news agency, Kazinform....Posdata to Provide Mobile WiMAX Network for Kazakhstan South Korean WiMAX vendor, Posdata says that it has signed commercial supply agreement of Mobile WiMAX systems with Kazakhstan based network, ARNA - including 100 Radio Access Stations (RAS - Wave 2), Access Control Routers (ACR), Network Management System (NMS) and terminals....Kazakhstan - Chance of 100% by the end of the year The penetration rate in the Kazakh mobile market is rapidly catching up with that in Russia, with another 6pp being added in Q2 08. At the end of June the total reached 89%, almost 30pp up on the rate recorded 12 months earlier....VimpelCom Q2 Profits Up By 31% to $470 Million Russia based VimpelCom has reported a 30.9% jump in its second quarter profit to US$470 million compared to a year ago - but down on the US$601 million reported in the first quarter of this year....Vimpelcom Increases Shareholding in Kazakhstan Operator Vimpelcom's Kazakhstan subsidiary, KaR-Tel says that it has been granted radio spectrum in the GSM1800 band to compliment its existing GSM900 license. ...Kazakhstan Operator Installs Anti-Fraud Software KaR-Tel, Kazakhstan's second largest mobile operator, has installed Neural Technologies' fraud management solution as part of a framework deal between Neural Technologies and VimpelCom, KaR-Tel's parent company....Kazakhstan - K'CELL Consolidates Lead as Penetration Reaches 83% The number of mobile connections in Kazakhstan reached 12.7m at the end of Q1 08, an increase of 4.7m or 58.3% year on year. Although this is slightly below the annual growth rates recorded in Q3 (72.1%) and Q4 07 (69.2%), it is nonetheless an impressive figure, and it is a considerable increase on the 40.0% recorded in the prior twelve months.... |
