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By Aynur Jafarova

Uzbek-Indian OliveTelecom joint venture has begun the production of OlivePadV-T300 tablet PCs, a source at Uzbektelecom joint stock company told Azerbaijan's Trend news agency.

According to the source, a trial consignment of tablet PCs has been manufactured and the computers are expected to be on commercial sale in the third quarter of the current year.

CPU speed of the OlivePadV-T300 tablet is 1.0 Ghz and it operates on Android 4.0 (Ice-cream Sandwich) operating system. The usual specifications are as follows: the screen resolution is 480 x 800 pixels and the screen size is 180 mm (7 inches); it has a 0.3 MP camera, Wi-Fi, USB 2.0 and Earphone Jack. Internal memory is 4GB with expansion capability to 32 GB.

The OlivePadV-T300 tablets will be sold in the market by Uzmobile branch of Uzbektelecom JSC for the price of about $180.

In February 2012 the India-based Olive Telecommunication and Uzbektelecom signed documents for the establishment of OliveTelecom JV to arrange the assembly of smartphones, CDMA-450 standard modems, tablets, etc. and the production of CDMA-450 standard smartphones.

The cost of the project at the first phase is $6 million.

In January 2013, OliveTelecom JV started the production of equipment for users of CDMA-450 standard cellular networks.

OliveTelecom JV's capacity initially will be 10,000 CDMA modems, 38,000 mobile and fixed CDMA terminals and 13,500 tablets per year.

OliveTelecom JV is located in the Navoi Free Industrial Economic Zone.

Uzbektelecom JSC is the largest telecommunications operator network which covers the entire territory of Uzbekistan. The company provides rental services of lines for operators and providers of fixed and mobile communications, services of international and long distance communications, all types of voice and data communications, Internet access, videoconferencing services, mobile and fixed communications of the CDMA-450 standard, as well as provides lines for television and radio programs broadcasting.

The company has three trademarks - Uztelecom, Uzmobile and Uzonline. The company has 22 affiliates, and 14 of them are regional and 8 specialized enterprises; it also has 3 subsidiary enterprises. Uzbektelecom holds shares in eight joint ventures providing mobile and fixed services, services of international and long distance communications, data transfer and Internet access.