Moldcell

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Moldcell

Type	SA
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Chişinău (Moldova)
Key people	Yusuf Baykan
Industry	Mobile telecommunications
Website	www.moldcell.md

Moldcell is a mobile network operator in Moldova. It works in GSM standard.

1 General information
2 History
3 Ownership
4 Statistics data
5 External links

[edit] General information

Communication standard: Moldcell has a license to work in GSM standard on frequencies 900 and 1800 MHz. Actually, Moldcell uses only 900 MHz.

Numbering resources: Moldcell network code is 79xxxxxx. In international format numbers have form +37379xxxxxx. Total by January 1, 2007 Moldcell had 1,000,000 telephone numbers in its disposition.

Network code: 259 02, where 259 — Mobile Country Code (MCC) for Moldova, and 02 — Mobile Network Code (MNC) for Moldcell network.

Display on the phone screen: MD Moldcell, Moldcell, MD-02 or 259 02 in dependence from the phone type.

[edit] History

Moldcell company begun its activity in Moldova on April 28, 2000, beginning the new era in development of the mobile communication of this country. From the beginning the company's main goal was offering leading, oriented on the subscribers' purposes services of the highest quality and for convenient prices. The operator is known as being an innovative, leader in the implementation of advanced technologies, customer oriented and social responsible Company. With its launch in Moldova, MOLDCELL brought to present and potential mobile customers the first prepaid package (Alocard), services as SMS, MMS, Call ME etc., advanced technologies like GPRS/EDGE and Camel.

[edit] Ownership

Moldcell owners are:

Fintur Holdings B.V — 99% share (58.55% share of which belongs to TeliaSonera, 41.45% share belongs to Turkcell)TeliaSonera and its associated companies offer communication services to over 100 mln subscribers in 18 countries and employ over 28,000 staff.
MolFintur — 1% share.

[edit] Statistics data

by January 1, 2008:

Moldcell network coverage: 94.78% of territory and 94.77% of population of Moldova
EDGE coverage in largest cities of Moldova
number of subscribers: isn't revealed (app. 600,000)
voice roaming: in 237 networks in 138 destinations
GPRS roaming: in 55 destinations in 105 networks
prepaid roaming based on Camel technology: 44 networks in 27 destinations.

During the years MOLDCELL received prizes like: • “The State Award for Quality” - MOLDCELL received the 1st degree award and laureate diploma. This year the contest was organized for the first time in Moldova and presupposes very rigorous selection criteria. 50 economic units participated in the contest; • “The Best Tax-Payer of the Year 2007” - nearly 180 applications were submitted by economic units. MOLDCELL received the Grand Prix for the third year consecutively; • “The Trademark of the Year 2007” – MOLDCELL brand became the winner of the Grand Prix - a “Golden Mercury” statuette – for the third time in a row. 75 applications were registered in this contest.