Bakcell Launches EDGE Upgrade in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani mobile network operator, Bakcell says that it has launched an EDGE upgrade to its network. The network upgrade was provided by Nokia Siemens Networks as part of a general contract which also included a GSM network expansion.

The contract was announced in February, indicating that the EDGE upgrade was completed within just a few weeks.

The operator is the second largest in the country, behind Azercell, and according to figures from the Mobile World tracker, ended last September with around 950,000 subscribers and a market share of 19%.

Posted to the site on 12th April 2009