General Info
Azercell Telecom LLC was established in January 1996 and started its commercial activities as the first GSM operator in Azerbaijan on December 15, 1996. Since the first few years of its activities, Azercell has maintained its lead position in the telecommunication market.
Azercell has brought a number of innovative technologies and concepts to Azerbaijan such like GSM technology, GPRS/EDGE, 24/7 Call Center, Azercell Express Office (one-stop-shop concept), BlackBerry® Solutions product etc.
The first mobile telecommunications services were based on postpaid system. In 1998, Azercell became one of the first companies in the world’s telecommunication sector to introduce a prepaid system (SimSim) for subscribers.
At the moment Azercell has more than 4.000 000 subscribers with population coverage – 99,8% , coverage area – 80% (excluding the 20% of occupied territories) and holds 55% of the market share in mobile telecommunications.
Azercell is the owner of the Certificate of Compliance with International ISO 10002:2004 Standards (Quality management - Customer satisfaction - Guidelines for complaints handling in organizations) and the owner of the certificate of Investors in People (IIP) Standard.
Azercell is a part of TeliaSonera. TeliaSonera was formed by a merger of Sweden’s Telia and Finland’s Sonera corporations in December 2002. Currently, it is one of the largest and the strongest International Carriers of Europe.
For more info:
www.teliasonera.com
CEO (Chief executive officer) of Azercell Telecom LLC — Ali Ağan (Ali Agan).
The current founder of Azercell is Fintur Holdings BV.
Fintur Holdings B.V. — is a partnership of Turkcell (42%) and TeliaSonera (58%).
For more info:
www.finturholdings.com
The merger between Telia and Sonera became a reality on December 9, 2002. TeliaSonera is one of the leading telecommunications companies with strong positions in mobile communications in Eurasia.
For more info:
www.teliasonera.com
Turkcell is the leading GSM operator in Turkey and one of the biggest in Europe. One of Turkcell’s shareholders with 51% Turkcell Holdings, with 7% Cukurova Group Companies and the other is Sonera with 13%.
For more info:
www.turkcell.com.tr
To become a company for Azerbaijan to take pride in
- Keep existing values
- Create new values
- Share values
Subscribers
| Year | Subscribers |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 20 371 |
| 1998 | 55 831 |
| 1999 | 179 640 |
| 2000 | 380 857 |
| 2001 | 519 346 |
| 2002 | 668 598 |
| 2003 | 912 137 |
| 2004 | 1 308 640 |
| 2005 | 1 706 158 |
| 2006 | 2 333 387 |
| 2007 | 2 800 000 |
| 2008 | 3 475 000 |
| 2009 | 3 850 000 |
| 2010 - 2011 | More than 4 000 000 |
Investments
Since Azercell began operations in December 1996, the company has invested in Telecommunications development and social well-being more than : 1 mlrd. USD in Azerbaijan.
- Overall contribution to the telecom - 916.255.000 USD
- Contribution to the people - 11. 915.000 USD
- Overall contribution to social - 15. 250.000 USD
Taxes
According to Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Taxes, Azercell is the second largest taxpayer operating outside of the country’s oil sector.
- During its all years of activity, the company paid a total of 940.212.000 USD into the state budget.
Azercell is the owner of the Certificate of Compliance with International ISO 10002:2004 Standards (Quality management - Customer satisfaction - Guidelines for complaints handling in organizations), the owner of the certificate of Investors in People (IIP) Standard and the owner of EN15838 certificate (European standard that ensures a high level of customer relations).
