KazakhTelecom

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• Aidan T. Karibdschanow (Chairman)
• Kuanyschbek Bachytbekowitsch Jessekejew ( CEO )

The KazakhTelecom ( Қазақтелеком Kazakh, Russian Казахтелеком ) is a telecommunications company based in Astana from Kazakhstan.

It is listed on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange in KASE index. 51 percent of the shares are owned by the Kazakh Samruk - Kazyna state-owned company.

Business

When KazakhTelecom approximately 30,000 employees. The company's sales increased in fiscal year 2010 to about 153 billion tenge; profit rose to 34.3 billion tenge.

On 1 January 2009 the KazakhTelecom had 3.3 million fixed-line subscribers. For every 100 people in Kazakhstan were 21 fixed lines on average.

Subsidiaries

The affiliates of KazakhTelecom include the Kazakh mobile operator Altel (100 %) and Kcell ( 49%). The company Nursat ( 77.08 %) and Mobile Telecom Service ( 51%) are also in possession of KazakhTelecom.

The Russian Telecommunications Provider Vostok Telecom (100 %) and Kepter telecom (100 % ) are also subsidiary, as the radio station Radio Tell ( 100%). In addition, the company owns the law firm Signum (100 %).

History

After the collapse of the Soviet Union was adopted by the Kazakh Government in 1991 an agenda for the development of telecommunications in Kazakhstan to strengthen this sector in the country. On June 17 In 1994 the KazakhTelecom was founded.

In 1997, the transition to the Kazakh Stock Exchange.

In the cities of Astana, Almaty, Karaganda, Pavlodar, Taraz and Taldykorgan you taught in 2007, a Next Generation Network. A year later followed by other major cities. As part of the state program for the development of rural areas, the KazakhTelecom improved between 2004 and 2010 their phone network.