Uzbekistan’s Uzbek Mobile has completed a USD 6.6 million upgrade of its CDMA450 network, Uzmobile’s technical director Galina Gafurbekova told the Interfax news agency. The infrastructure, consisting of 70 base stations was supplied by China’s Huawei.
“We have test-launched a CDMA450 network in nine regions. Now that this project has been completed we can provide the whole of Uzbekistan with mobile phone services,” Gafurbekova said.
Funding for the deployment was split between the mobile operator and the Chinese Bank for Development.
The operator has a second expansion phase worth USD 2 million, with equipment being supplied by Alcatel Lucent.
According to the Blycroft Database, Uzmobile ended the first quarter of this year with around 20,000 subscribers representing less than half a percentage point of market share.