Azerbaijan, Baku / corr. Trend S.Babayeva / Presently Azercell Telecom JV has roaming agreements with 310 operators from 135 countries around the world. The Director General of the Company, Halim Ates, stated that only in 2006 the Company activated roaming services with 50 mobile operators from 18 countries.
Joint venture "Azercell Telecom" was established on January 19, 1996. Founders were Turkcell Yleti?im Hizmetleri A. S. and Ministry of Communications of Azerbaijan Republic.
"Azercell Telecom" started its activities on December 15, 1996 offering subscribers mobile telecommunications services based on postpaid system. In 1998 prepaid system was launched with tariff package - SimSim that was very successful. As being the leader of the market and very dynamic company it's known as the trend setter in mobile telecommunications market in Azerbaijan applying new technologies and offering various tariff packages, products and services that are beyond the customer needs.