Industry body claims Azeri cell provider signed deal with ArmenTel
Azerbaijan`s cellular provider, Azerfon LLC (Nar Mobile trademark)
and Armenia`s ArmenTel company (ARMGSM), have signed a roaming
agreement, the global mobile phone industry body claimed.
The website of the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents more than 700 mobile operators around the world, maintains that Azerfon is ArmenTel`s roaming partner in Azerbaijan.
Aziz Akhundov, spokesman for Nar Mobile, told Radio Liberty last week that the company had demanded, for ten consecutive days, that GSMA remove from its web page this information claiming its connection with Armenia, which was uploaded in its website section on Armenia.
"If this information were true, ArmenTel would be included in the list of Nar Mobile`s partners in the section on Azerbaijan, which is out of the question," Akhundov added.
Mushfig Amirov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies, said there is not, and could never be, cellular roaming of any Armenian providers in Azerbaijan`s regions, with the exception of territories under Armenian occupation. Azerfon LLC began operating in Azerbaijan in March 2007. The company has over 500,000 customers in the country of over eight million people.
The website of the GSM Association (GSMA), which represents more than 700 mobile operators around the world, maintains that Azerfon is ArmenTel`s roaming partner in Azerbaijan.
Aziz Akhundov, spokesman for Nar Mobile, told Radio Liberty last week that the company had demanded, for ten consecutive days, that GSMA remove from its web page this information claiming its connection with Armenia, which was uploaded in its website section on Armenia.
"If this information were true, ArmenTel would be included in the list of Nar Mobile`s partners in the section on Azerbaijan, which is out of the question," Akhundov added.
Mushfig Amirov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies, said there is not, and could never be, cellular roaming of any Armenian providers in Azerbaijan`s regions, with the exception of territories under Armenian occupation. Azerfon LLC began operating in Azerbaijan in March 2007. The company has over 500,000 customers in the country of over eight million people.
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