The network, provided by Nokia Siemens Networks, is Uzbekistan’s first 3G rollout, the company said.

The Nokia Siemens Networks solution will permit download speeds of 7.2 Mbps and upload speeds of 1.4 Mbps, providing for video calls, live TV streaming, video on demand and high speed internet browsing enabled by High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology.

FE Coscom Ltd is a part of TeliaSonera group and operates under UCell trademark in Uzbekistan.

TeliaSonera provides telecomms services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, in Spain and the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey. In 2007 TeliaSonera’s net sales amounted to SEK96bn and at the end of December 2007 the total number of subscriptions exceeded 114 million in 18 countries.

Nokia Siemens Networks, headquartered in Espoo, Finland, is an international telecomms infrastructure company with operations in some 150 countries worldwide.