Growth history of Kazakhtelecom JSC Group of Companies
Foundation of Kazakhtelecom JSC.
Construction of the National Sector of the International Trans-Asian-European Fiber Optic Line (TAE FOCL), 52 km from Almaty.
Launch of TLX.25 Turbo telex station in Almaty.
Listing of the Company on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.
Launch of a satellite communications system to provide telephone services in remote population centers.
- Creation of a unified National Data Transmission Network with the Kazakhstan Online trademark.
- Operation of the first International Switching Center (ISC) in Almaty.
Introduction of Internet access services using DialUp technology — “Internet Zone”.
Opening of the first Internet Data Center (IDC) for 10 thousand users in Central Asia.
- Launch of the National Intellectual Network.
- Commissioning of the Russia-Kazakhstan fiber-optic linear transition.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC holds the International Gold Medical Award for Management Quality and Effectiveness;
- Completion of digitalization of Kazakhstan’s capital.
Re-registration of the Company from an open joint stock company (OJSC) to a joint stock company (JSC).
Launch of Megaline broadband Internet access services based on ADSL technology.
Separation of ICT into a separate line of business (Directorate of Information Systems).
Kazaktelecom JSC ensured 100% distribution of fixed-line services in Kazakhstan.
Implementation of the project to implement the Quality Management System and commissioning of the Balanced Indicators Information System.
Launch of IPTV services under the iD TV brand.
- Opening of the Directorate of the Academy of Information and Communication Technologies.
- Completion of the project “Transition of telecommunications networks of Kazakhtelecom JSC to Next Generation Network (NGN) technologies”.
Launch of a strategic project on the construction of a universal fiber-optic access network FTTH.
- Sale of 49% of Kcell JSC shares to TeliaSonera.
- Presentation of the largest Data Processing Center (DPC) in the CIS developed in cooperation with Hewlett-Packard.
The Company was recognized as a leader in the corporate governance rating among the Fund’s subsidiaries based on the results of an independent diagnostics of corporate governance conducted at five subsidiaries of Samruk-Kazyna JSC.
- Launch of LTE network (based on ALTEL subsidiary).
- Launch of the next generation of DWDM backbone network.
Kazakhtelecom JSC made 100% digitalization of fixed voice networks.
- Creation of ALTEL/Tele2 joint venture in the mobile communications market.
- Implementation of the Dream project to organize the Europe-Southeast Asia transit route in cooperation with China Mobile.
Creation of an Integrated Network Management Center.
- Acquisition of 75% of shares in Kcell JSC.
- Construction of FOCL RS.
- Implementation of the Smart Aqkol project.
- 5G testing in Nur-Sultan and Almaty.
- Acquisition of 49% share of Tele2 AB in the joint venture.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC was the winner in the Transaction of the Year category at the TMT M&A Awards 2019.
- The construction of the FOCL RS (rural settlement) has been completed. Over the 2 years of the project, 14.380 kilometers of fiber-optic networks have been built across the country.
- The project “250+” has been implemented to provide rural settlements with a population of 250 people with broadband mobile Internet.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC has been designated as the single operator of the system of mandatory labeling of tobacco products, responsible for the technical component, storage of data and timing of information systems of market participants.
- In 2020, the new SERPIN Strategy and Transformation Program was launched, which includes digitalization of the core business, development of new digital businesses and digital network transformation.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC completed construction of another 104 base stations using LoRa technology. M2M (machine to machine) and IoT-device can be connected in city municipal systems in the Jambyl and West Kazakhstan regions and also in Turkistan and Almaty. In general, the network has been expanded to 14 cities in the country.
- The international rating agency Fitch Ratings has raised Kazakhtelecom JSC’s credit rating to BBB- (Stable) from BB+ (Positive).
- In Kazakhstan, Kcell JSC’s networks are based on the Mobile Office service, which allows the business or its branch to work anywhere in the country and have access to its own information network without changing access parameters, and employees to be mobile.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC has launched a new generation of services — eSIM. A new eSIM service is now available to Kazakhtelecom subscribers — a digital alternative to a plastic SIM card.
- In April 2021, Kazakhstan became the leader in the EEU and Central Asian countries in the global ranking of mobile Internet speed according to Ookla Speedtest Global Index.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC brought domestic cyber to TV+. At the end of May, Kazakhtelecom JSC JSC’s TV+ platform hosted the first online webcasts of Russian cyber sporting competitions.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC has entered the active phase of the Smart Turkistan project, starting to equip the city’s utilities and municipal facilities with remote transmission of water consumption data with connection to a IoT network built by a major telecom operator.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC is creating a network of open access points for eQoldau in rural settlements of the Republic of Kazakhstan, thanks to which residents will have another tool for accessing the world of digital services and e-services.
- Kazaktelecom JSC has launched a network of FWAs in Nur-Sultan.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC launched a new project “Digital partner in the village”. The project will enable to provide rural population with high speed and high quality Internet and will enable entrepreneurs to develop their business.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC presented the concept of introduction of 5G technology in Kazakhstan, which will enable to carry out digital transformation of the country’s economy and open up the possibility of creating new digital services in Kazakhstan in the near future.
- Kazakhtelecom JSC and AzerTelecom signed a memorandum of cooperation. The document provides for strategic partnership of the two operators within the framework of the project of Transcaspian fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) on the route “Kazakhstan — Azerbaijan”, which is part of the large-scale project “Digital Silk Way”, providing for the creation of a new digital telecommunications corridor between Europe and Asia through Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.