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09-21-2007, 05:20 AM
Coscom: a step up in fierce competition for market leadership (http://business.uzreport.com/uzb.cgi?lan=e&id=37556)
To change the positions of the top three players of the market for mobile services in Uzbekistan is the ambitious plan of the Coscom mobile operator, which has recently changed owners to TeliaSonera represented in the Asian region by Fintur Holdings B.V.
This was announced by the representative of TeliaSoner and Fintur Holdings B.V. Mr. Selim Oktar in a press briefing.
"We are never contented with the third position in the market for GSM standard mobile services in any country of our presence. Our aim is to take up either the first or the second position," he said.
Coscom has recently been acquired by the European communication services company, Telia Sonera. In the early July of this year, the Swedish-Finnish telecommunication giant announced 100% acquisition of the American MCT Corp., the owner of several large operators in the Central Asian region, including Coscom in Uzbekistan. In the Asian region TeliaSonera is represented by Fintur Holdings, which will take the responsibility for managing Coscom. Coscom's new Director-General Bora Baysal said: "This deal illustrates TeliaSonera's strategy to become the leading mobile operator in Eurasia, strengthen and expand its presence in the region."
"Among the key principles of the company's business activity in this region will be strong social responsibility. We intend to turn our company into a corporately and socially responsible citizen of your beautiful country," he said.
He also added that it was the company's strategy to turn into a "more innovative, stronger, and higher quality company" offering "European quality services based on Uzbek values". In pursuing its strategy the company will rely on the abovementioned principles of corporate and social responsibility, he emphasized.
This, according to the head of Coscom, will allow not only to strengthen the company's corporate subscribers' segment, but also to expand the client base through the attraction of individual mobile users.
Moreover it is within the company's plans to make investments of at least US$160 million in the Uzbek mobile operator within the next ten years to develop its network and new services, raise the qualifications of the staff and increase the number of service points.
Fintur Holdings B.V. is a consolidated subsidiary joint venture of the Turkish Turkcell and European TeliaSonera. Representing business in four companies in the Eurasian region, Fintur provides mobile services to over 8.7 million subscribers. The company's turnover averages US$1.2 billion.
TeliaSonera is an open type shareholding company with over 750,000 shareholders and more than 35,000 employees working in 16 countries of the world. Founded in 2002 through the merger of Finnish Telia AB and Swedish Sonera Corporation, it now focuses on provision of mobile communication services, and together with its subsidiaries services some 80.1 million clients in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Baltic countries, Turkey and Russia.
Coscom has been in the mobile services market of Uzbekistan for eleven years. The main area of the company's activity is the creation and subsequent development of the modern system of GSM 900/1800 standard mobile services. In 2004, the company was the first and the only mobile company to receive an ISO 9001:2000 quality management system certificate. The total number of the company's subscribers currently comprises 400,000 people. The main task for the company at this point and for the short future is to prove itself as a leading high-quality mobile operator in Uzbekistan, relying on its European experience and competence.
Coscom hopes to take up all the most valued local traditions and prove its social responsibility to the community it serves. Moreover, one of the principles of Fintur's business activity is not only to gain financial profits, but also to assist the development of the country and the society as a whole.
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What do you think, can they cope with this task (of becoming first or second operator in Uzbekistan), beating MTS and Beeline?
To change the positions of the top three players of the market for mobile services in Uzbekistan is the ambitious plan of the Coscom mobile operator, which has recently changed owners to TeliaSonera represented in the Asian region by Fintur Holdings B.V.
This was announced by the representative of TeliaSoner and Fintur Holdings B.V. Mr. Selim Oktar in a press briefing.
"We are never contented with the third position in the market for GSM standard mobile services in any country of our presence. Our aim is to take up either the first or the second position," he said.
Coscom has recently been acquired by the European communication services company, Telia Sonera. In the early July of this year, the Swedish-Finnish telecommunication giant announced 100% acquisition of the American MCT Corp., the owner of several large operators in the Central Asian region, including Coscom in Uzbekistan. In the Asian region TeliaSonera is represented by Fintur Holdings, which will take the responsibility for managing Coscom. Coscom's new Director-General Bora Baysal said: "This deal illustrates TeliaSonera's strategy to become the leading mobile operator in Eurasia, strengthen and expand its presence in the region."
"Among the key principles of the company's business activity in this region will be strong social responsibility. We intend to turn our company into a corporately and socially responsible citizen of your beautiful country," he said.
He also added that it was the company's strategy to turn into a "more innovative, stronger, and higher quality company" offering "European quality services based on Uzbek values". In pursuing its strategy the company will rely on the abovementioned principles of corporate and social responsibility, he emphasized.
This, according to the head of Coscom, will allow not only to strengthen the company's corporate subscribers' segment, but also to expand the client base through the attraction of individual mobile users.
Moreover it is within the company's plans to make investments of at least US$160 million in the Uzbek mobile operator within the next ten years to develop its network and new services, raise the qualifications of the staff and increase the number of service points.
Fintur Holdings B.V. is a consolidated subsidiary joint venture of the Turkish Turkcell and European TeliaSonera. Representing business in four companies in the Eurasian region, Fintur provides mobile services to over 8.7 million subscribers. The company's turnover averages US$1.2 billion.
TeliaSonera is an open type shareholding company with over 750,000 shareholders and more than 35,000 employees working in 16 countries of the world. Founded in 2002 through the merger of Finnish Telia AB and Swedish Sonera Corporation, it now focuses on provision of mobile communication services, and together with its subsidiaries services some 80.1 million clients in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Baltic countries, Turkey and Russia.
Coscom has been in the mobile services market of Uzbekistan for eleven years. The main area of the company's activity is the creation and subsequent development of the modern system of GSM 900/1800 standard mobile services. In 2004, the company was the first and the only mobile company to receive an ISO 9001:2000 quality management system certificate. The total number of the company's subscribers currently comprises 400,000 people. The main task for the company at this point and for the short future is to prove itself as a leading high-quality mobile operator in Uzbekistan, relying on its European experience and competence.
Coscom hopes to take up all the most valued local traditions and prove its social responsibility to the community it serves. Moreover, one of the principles of Fintur's business activity is not only to gain financial profits, but also to assist the development of the country and the society as a whole.
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What do you think, can they cope with this task (of becoming first or second operator in Uzbekistan), beating MTS and Beeline?