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Minsk. February 6,2005. Press-cutting service of BelCel JV - the first wireless operator in Belarus announces the results of the second development year of cdma2000 network in Belarus.
February 6, 2003 - BelCel JV launched the most innovative wireless network in Belarus - cdma2000-into its commercial operation. cdma2000 telecom services are provided under the brand name DIALLOG.
Director General of BelCel JV Mr. Vladislav Ratchkevitch in connection with the second anniversary of the new standard operation said, “ Due to the continued marketing activity and new subscribers attraction using the unique advertising campaigns, the company during the sufficiently short period of time could double its market share and increase the subscriber base in 10 times from the beginning of 2004. Our subscribers are - families, friends, and colleagues. They are businessmen, major enterprises and governmental structures - the subscribers who build the economical, political and social well- being of the nation. Future changes in the line of tariff plans, new services and assortment extension allow us to hope that the subscriber base shall be increased twice by 2006”.
During two years of operation in Belarus about 100 000 inhabitants of our country have become DIALLOG subscribers that shows the demand and a wide popularity of the new standard services.
In March 2004 DIALLOG subscriber base increased by more than 10 000 people that held a company’s record on new activations number per month.
Telecom services of the most innovative wireless system are available on the territory that inhabited by 80 percent of Belarusian people. To deploy the network on this territory 101 base stations were installed by the company. About $ 28 million have been invested into the successful cdma2000 project development during these two years. Reasonable saving of assets at the network construction enables our company to offer beneficial tariffs such as unlimited talks within the network without paying additional charges.
In 2004 the assortment of cellphones reached 10 models that enabled DIALLOG to become a leader that provided the widest choice of subscriber equipment among all CDMA operators working in 450 MHz (IMT-MC-450) frequency band.
In 2005 company specialists plan to install additionally 97 base stations. That enables to provide quality telecom services on 68 % of the nationwide territory. Telecom services shall become available in small towns, traffic centers, frontier points, recreation places - DIALLOG shall operate everywhere -where there is a demand in qualitative voice and data services.
The geography of our activation points was significantly expanded in 2004. Now you can become a DIALLOG subscriber at more than 150 dealer shops in 30 towns of Belarus. To the end of the year we plan to increase number of activation points by 50%.
At the beginning of the year BelCel JV installed additional transceiving devices in Minsk that enabled to increase cdma2000 network capacity by 50 percent. Network operation at the places of high density of subscribers is realized by two carrier frequencies, the frequency band of each carrier is 1,25 MHz. First results of network operation on two frequency carriers showed increase of network capacity as well as the growth of a data rate from 70 to 110 kbps in the downtown.
Switching on of the additional carrier frequency in regional centers and major towns of Belarus shall be the next stage of DIALLOG network development.
Among the company plans for 2005 - implementation of packet data services based on EV-DO technology. This project can create a revolution in Belarusian market of wireless Internet services.
Video files on-line browsing , a large-scale data handling, a high safety and reliability level of the connection shall become available for EV-DO service users. DIALLOG plans to offer EV-DO services in the second part of the current year.
Capability of Internet and data services tariffication per traffic has been developed and prepared for its implementation by the supplier of our billing system Russian company CBOSS. The implementation of data services tarification according to their traffic shall give us the opportunity to use Internet as long as we want and to pay for the volume of transmitted data only. We develop new tariff plans with a wide opportunities for different customer groups to get the maximumally convenient use of data tariffication. Due to the supplier's delay in performing his part, we plan to launch data tariffication per traffic in the second quarter 2005.
Works on upgrading ACC (Automatic Call Center) have been started. New version shall provide reduced waiting time for the system reply as well as other capabilities that will enable the service to become maximally user-friendly. Likewise, operation of the inquiry service shall be reorganized. Use of the new call-center with IVR feature (intellectual voice replies) shall allow to increase the number of processed calls and reduce the waiting time. For subscriber's convenience we plan to implement round-the-clock operation of the company call center.
In the current year we project to launch services based on BREW platform. Implementation of this service gives DIALLOG subscribers a capability to exchange sounds, melodies, images, snapshots (analogue of MMS in GSM network), games, etc.
DIALLOG is at pains to make DIALLOG services use maximally convenient for its subscribers. We call to communicate so as to make our world better!
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