The operator said that number of subscribers reached with high trends. UCell reached the sixth millionth point about three months ago.
Mr. Oguz Memiguven, the CEO of FE COSCOM LLС, said: “This is significant achievement for our company. UCell continues to gain trust of population of Uzbekistan and I am grateful to all our subscribers for their choice. We believe that mobile communication in important tool in communication and rapprochement of people. UCell will please its subscribers with new great proposals.”
FE Coscom LLC was founded in 1996. As of June 2008, the company began rendering services of mobile communication under the UCell brand. The company's subscriber base exceeded 5 million at the end of 2009.
UCell is part of TeliaSonera. TeliaSonera provides telecommunication services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey, and in Spain. TeliaSonera is now in 20 markets with close to 460 million inhabitants. The number of subscriptions in 2009 reached over 147.6 million. For the year 2009, TeliaSonera's net sales amounted to approximately USD 14.3 billion and TeliaSonera had around 30,000 employees.
TeliaSonera provides network access and telecommunication services that help people and companies communicate in an easy, efficient and environmentally friendly way. TeliaSonera is an international group with a global strategy, but wherever it operates it acts as a local company.
In the emerging markets of Eurasia, TeliaSonera has majority holdings in leading mobile operators in Kazakhstan (Kcell), Azerbaijan (Azercell), Georgia (Geocell), Moldova (Moldcell), Tajikistan (Tcell), Uzbekistan (Ucell), and Nepal (Ncell). TeliaSonera is also a minority owner of MegaFon in Russia and Turkcell in Turkey.