Armenian VivaCell-MTS reaches agreements with 16 mobile operators in 14 countries on rendering 3G roaming services
YEREVAN, June 18. /ARKA/. The leading mobile operator of Armenia, VivaCell-MTS company signed agreements with 16 operators of 14 countries on rendering 3G roaming services, the company’s press-service reported.
Following the introduction of its 3G network, the company simultaneously started providing 3G roaming service to enable its subscribers traveling abroad use high-speed mobile Internet in host countries. As of today, VivaCell-MTS subscribers who own a compatible 3G mobile phone can enjoy access to 3G network services of 16 operators in 14 countries. 3G-roaming is opened for VivaCell-MTS subscribers in Bulgaria, Egypt, Estonia, France, Hong Kong, Iceland, Macedonia, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Tanzania, Colombia and Sweden.
Staying in touch and always being connected is everyone’s priority nowadays. VivaCell-MTS strives to cope with the fast-developing technologies, to keep its customers at the forefront of technological developments and provide them with best quality services tailored to meet their individual needs in communication, including international roaming.
“Provision of 3G roaming services to subscribers-travellers is an important milestone on our path to ensure the best possible experience of mobile communication for VivaCell-MTS subscribers. More cellular operators will be added to the list of VivaCell-MTS’ 3G roaming partners in the near future," – said VivaCell-MTS General Manager.
The Company will continue to increase the list of countries where subscribers can use voice communication and modern mobile services, based on GPRS/EDGE and 3G technologies.
From the first day of its operation, VivaCell-MTS has significantly expanded the list of countries where its subscribers could roam, bringing the total to 177 countries and 375 mobile operators (does not include the number of MTS Group roaming operators). In addition to that the company achieved 68 CAMEL roaming partners in 44 countries and 87 GPRS roaming partners in 56 countries. In many countries roaming for VivaCell-MTS subscribers is provided by more than one mobile network.
After full integration with MTS Group, VivaCell-MTS subscribers will also benefit from MTS Group’s large portfolio of roaming partners worldwide.
VivaCell-MTS (K-Telecom CJSC) is the leading Armenian mobile operator, providing a wide range of Voice and Data services. Company operates in all regions of Armenia and has a license of GSM 900/1800 standard until 2019.
Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) OJSC (NYSE: MBT), is the leading mobile operator in Russia and CIS. Together with its daughter companies MTS serves 92.98mln subscribers. The population of regions of Russia, as well as of Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, where MTS and its daughter companies have license for rendering GSM services totals 230mln.
Since June 2000 shares of MTS have been listed in the stock exchange of New York under MBT code.–0--