BelCel JV Ltd. (trade mark) and PC “Cellular communication of Bashkortostan” has announced the start of commercial operation of roaming service between their networks of IMT-MC-450 (cdma2000) standard. In Bashkiria PC “Cellular communication of Bashkortostan” is providing communication services of the new standard in Ufa, Sterlitamak, Salavat, Neftekamsk and Oktiabrski. Subscribers of both companies will be able to use voice roaming services. SMS exchange and data transfer still need more testing and we will announce their launching separately.

First in the world commercial roaming between CDMA2000 cellular networks was launched in 2003 by Skylink (“Delta Telecom” Ltd., St. Petersburg) and DIALLOG ( BelCel JV Ltd., Republic of Belarus). Starting from November 1, 2006 this service became available for the subscribers of Skylink in Moscow and St. Petersburg.