CATEL Azerbaijan - Cell Phones Azerbaijan

CATEL Ò is the first CDMA operator in Azerbaijan.

CATEL is one of the first Azerbaijan-American joint ventures in the telecommunications industry between the Government of Azerbaijan and a United States consortium Omni-Metromedia Caspian Ltd. (OMCL).

The company was established in 1997, and in 1999 Azerbaijan Ìs former President Heydar Aliyev joined OMCL for the ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of CATEL. Being one of AzerbaijanÌs local operators, CATEL provides wireless telecommunication services in "FH-CDMA" standard to WLL subscribers with and in "3G CDMA" standard to mobile subscribers. Over the past several years, CATEL has continued to grow expanding its network to cover Baku, Sumgait, and the Apsheron Peninsula, providing affordable quality telephone services to people living and working in Azerbaijan.

CATEL was the first fixed wireless digital network in Azerbaijan to provide reliable and toll-quality telephone, facsimile, ISDN, Internet, and data transmission to customers. Since august 2004, for the first time in Azerbaijan, CATEL has started to apply state-of-the-art technology to Azerbaijan , with the latest introduction of "CDMA 2000 1x"service on the base of equipment of Chinese company HUAWEI. This technology designed by American company Qualcomm and has a number of advantages in contrast to 2G mobile service standards: ecological safety, big network capacity, high speed data transmission, support of analogue and digital fax and etc. As a result of persistent work on increasing of technical features of the network CATEL has become a member of the CDMA Development Group.

In 2006 CATEL got the license for provision of mobile services in CDMA standard.

In April 2007 the company announced about its new brand FONEX for provision of its mobile services in CDMA standard.
Currently CATEL has continued to expand the coverage area of its CDMA mobile network. Now subscribers can enjoy mobile services of FONEX not only in Baku and Apsheron Peninsula, but also in Ganja, Shamkir, Nabran, Aly-Bayramly, Mingechaur, Devechi, Balaken, Ujar and Kurdemir.