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BAKU – Azerbaijan’s cellular operator Azerfon has announced the appointment of a new CEO.

Jurgen Peetz is a long-experienced professional of telecom industry who served as the Managing Director of Orange Austria, the third mobile operator in Austria, as former Vice President with Nokia Networks Germany and at Comium Mobile as a Group CEO.

As the new CEO of Azerfon, Peetz will play an important role in Azerfon’s growth providing its customers with the highest quality products and the best services to meet their needs.

"Azerbaijan holds one of the leading positions for the development of ICT industry in the CIS region and ICT is the second fastest developing sector of the country’s economy," said Peetz. "As the most dynamically growing mobile operator, Azerfon is part of this growth. I am very happy for joining Azerfon as CEO, and as a team we will do our best to further expand the growth of the company by focusing on the provision of best technologies and best services. We will focus on our customers’ needs, customer satisfaction by delivering a wide scope of useful mobile services throughout the country."

Cuneyt Turktan, Board Chairman of Azerfon, said the company completed its start-up phase very successfully and will now focus on growing its subscriber base through improved quality network, focusing on customer care and distribution.

"As of today we have invested significantly into our 2G and 3G networks to have the best coverage," Turktan said. "As part of our 2011 plans we will work even more aggressively to have not only best coverage, but also best quality services in Azerbaijan on voice and data. Having Mr. Peetz, the veteran of telecom industry, on board of Azerfon will be one of the key driving engines for making Azerfon the leader of the mobile communications market of Azerbaijan."

Azerfon, which launched its operations in Azerbaijan in 2007, covers 80 percent of Azerbaijani territory and provides services to 1.5 million people in the country of 9 million. Since 2009, Azerfon is Vodafone PLC’s non-equity partner. The company was licensed by the government in December 2009 to render 3G services in Azerbaijan for the first time.