Afghan Network Copes With Higher Subscriber Numbers

Afghanistan's first consumer mobile phone operator, Afghan Wireless has become a victim of its own success and has just announced that it is changing its dialing codes to cope with increased demand. As a result they have had to upgrade their network with an upgraded pre-fix dialing code from 070 to NOW 0700.

From now onwards, all Afghan Wireless subscribers and others wanting to call an Afghan Wireless subscribers will need to add a 0 before dialing any Afghan Wireless number.

Chairman, Mr. Ehsan Bayat said "I would like the Afghan Wireless family to grow and would like to provide them the best in class services the world is experiencing. Our network upgrade to Siemens the world leader in prepaid system is a testimony to that."

Afghan Wireless says that it has spent some US$300 million on its network which now includes a microwave backbone of 2000 kilometers.

The Mobile World database estimates that Afghan Wireless ended Q3 '06 with some 465,000 subscribers."

Posted to the site on 20th February 2007