Articles tagged with: Azercell and Turkcell

Turkcell - Decline in customers as churn hits all-time high

The first quarter of the year is traditionally the weakest for growth for Turkcell, Turkey's market leader, but Q1 09 was a particularly poor quarter. The quarterly loss of 0.6m customers was only the second ever suffered by the company, with the first being in Q1 08 (-0.3m). In both Q1 08 and Q1 09, it was the prepaid base which suffered the entire loss. In fact, the contract base has grown with remarkable consistency, adding 0.3m in the past four quarters, although it is worth mentioning that Turkcell only reports numbers to the nearest 0.1m. At the end of Q1 09, the prepaid base stood at 28.6m . unchanged year on year . while the contract base was up 18.2% to 7.8m. Total customer growth stood at 3.7%, down from 9.0% a year earlier. more

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Azerbaijan Government to Sell Stakes in Local Telecoms Firms

Azerbaijan's governments intends to start selling stakes in the state-owned telecoms ventures, Kerem Gasanov, the head of the Azeri State Property Management Committee told a news conference. more

Azerbaijan's Azercell Telecom subscriber base up 33% in 2006

BAKU, Mar 6 (Prime-Tass) -- The subscriber base of Azeri mobile operator azercell Telecom rose 33% in 2006 to 2.33 million users as of late 2006, company CEO Halim Ates said at a news conference Tuesday. more

Related Tags: teliasonera, fintur-holdings, azercell-telecom

Azerbaijan's Azercell Telecom sees investments at $130 mln 2007

BAKU, Dec 14 (Prime-Tass) -- Azeri mobile operator azercell Telecom projects its investments flat on the year at US$130 million in 2007, azercell's Chief Executive Halim Ates said at a news conference Thursday. more

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Passive Handset Screen to Sell Mobile Content

azercell, Azerbaijan's biggest mobile operator has launched 'Simurq', a new way for subscribers to discover and buy mobile content. Simurq - which is Russian for 'Phoenix' uses the idle screen of the mobile phone and is powered by Celltick's LiveScreen Media. more

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Azerbaijan's Azercell Telecom subscriber base up 12.5% Jan-Jun

BAKU, Aug 11 (Prime-Tass) -- The subscriber base of Azeri mobile operator azercell Telecom rose 12.5% in January-June to 1.97 million users as of July 1, the company's CEO Halim Ates said at a news conference Friday. more

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PRESS: Azeri minister says govt plans to sell stake in Azercell

MOSCOW, May 24 (Prime-Tass) -- The Azeri government plans to sell its 35.7% stake in the country's largest mobile operator azercell by year-end, the country's IT and Communications Minister Ali Abbasov said, Vedomosti business daily reported Wednesday. more

Related Tags: teliasonera

Azercell mobile user base up 34.6% on year as of Jan 1

BAKU, Feb 8 (Prime-Tass) -- The subscriber base of Azeri mobile operator azercell Telecom rose 34.6% on the year to 1.75 million users as of January 1, the company said in a press release Wednesday. more

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FOCUS: Russian operators want to expand abroad, opportunities limited"

MOSCOW, Feb 3 (Prime-Tass) -- Russia's largest mobile operators have divided the saturated domestic market and are now looking for opportunities in neighboring countries but there are not many assets available for sale and they may be pricey. more

GPRS Roaming Launched in Moldova

The Moldova based GSM network operator, Moldcell has launched, what it says is the first GPRS Roaming service in Moldova. Moldcell subscribers that have both Roaming and GPRS services activated have the opportunity to enjoy the GPRS Roaming Services. The first bilateral operators on 27th of December will be Turkcell Turkey and azercell Azerbaijan. more

Related Tags: mms, gprs, moldcell

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