Over the first quarter of this year, revenues of private telecom operators have risen 13.2 percent, according to the communications service agency.
Over this three-month period, they have reportedly earned totaling 614 million somoni (equivalent to 60 million U.S. dollars), which was 72 million somoni more compared to the same period last year.
Meanwhile, revenues of the national telecom operator (Tajiktelecom), Pochtai Tojik (Tajik post office) and branches of the communications service agency have reportedly risen 8.5 percent compared to January-March last year – from 40 million somoni to 43.4 million somoni.
The private telecom operators reportedly account for 93.4 percent of users of mobile telecommunications services in Tajikistan.
As of April 1, 2020, a total number of Internet users in Tajikistan was about 3.2 million people and the number of users of mobile telecommunications services was nearly 6.1 million people, with some 5.3 million of them being active users.
It is to be noted that revenues of the private telecom operators have declined continuously in recent years. Thus, their revenues declined nearly 5 million somoni in 2019 amounting to little more than 2.4 billion somoni.
Four private mobile providers now operate in Tajikistan: Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) Indigo-Tajikistan (Tcell); CJSC TT-Mobile (Megafon Tajikistan); CJSC Babilon-Mobile; and Tacom LLC (ZetMobile, former Beeline).
