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Nar Mobile coverage reaches 80% territory (Azerbaijan)

  • June 13th, 2008
  • 2:17 pm

News agency Trend Capital reports that Azerfon, known locally as Nar Mobile, deployed 55 new base stations last month, lifting overall network coverage to 80% of the Azerbaijan’s territory. The cellco was granted a GSM-900/1800 licence in December 2005 and launched GSM/GPRS/EDGE services in late March 2007. It currently has an estimated 700,000 subscribers.

   

Azerfon launches new MMS INFO service

  • June 4th, 2008
  • 2:55 pm

Azerbaijan mobile operator Azerfon, which markets services under the Nar Mobile banner, has launched a new multimedia messaging service – dubbed MMS INFO. The product will enable the cellco’s subscribers to send and receive text and image messages 24 hours a day, the company said. Azerfon was granted a GSM-900/1800 licence in December 2005, writes and launched GSM/GPRS/EDGE services in late March 2007 in Baku, Ganca, Mingacevir, Ali Bayrmali, Sumqayit, Naxcivan, Lenkeran, the Absheron Peninsula and Guba, with an initial network capacity of 250,000. Within three months, 100,000 subscribers had signed up and capacity had been doubled, and after a further three months the customer base exceeded 300,000. In March 2008, the subscriber base had topped the 500,000 mark.

   

 

 

Nar Mobile expands roaming in Russia, Hungary, and Turkey (Azerbaijan)

  • January 14th, 2008
  • 7:36 am

Azeri cellco Azerfon, which launched GSM/GPRS/EDGE services in March 2007 under the Nar Mobile banner, has signed new four new GPRS roaming agreements. Subscribers can now roam on the networks of Russian cellcos VimpelCom (Beeline) and MTS, T-Mobile of Hungary and Turkcell in Turkey, according to a press release. Nar Mobile had an estimated 320,000 subscribers by the end of September 2007.