DUSHANBE, November 2, 2009, Asia-Plus — Tajik cellular operator, close joint-stock company MLT/TT Mobile (Mobile Lines of Tajikistan), plans to install a base station in the Porshnev jamoat, Shugnan district of Gorno Badakhshan this month.
In all, the company intends to install 15 base stations for cellular communications in Gorno Badakhshan by the end of 2010, according to the MLT press service.
“This year, we have thoroughly studied issues related to improvement and modernization of the communications infrastructure in the region, which has needs in mobile communications means,” said the source, “The study results have shown that installation of new base stations will yield positive results soon.”
MLT/TT Mobile is a joint venture between the Russian cellular operator MegaFon and Tajikistan’s national fixed-line operator, Tajik Telecom. MegaFon owns 75 percent of the shares and Tajik Telecom holds a 25 percent interest in MLT/TT-Mobile.
MegaFon, an open joint stock company, was founded in May 2002 with the renaming and reorganization of the Russian cellular operator North-West GSM.
MLT/TT Mobile was the first cellular operator in Tajikistan to offer its clients the 3G standard in 2005.
