OREANDA-NEWS. August 12, 2008. Leading cellular operator of Azerbaijan Azercell Telecom LLC has claimed of growth of quantity of its subscribers by 500,000 since early 2008.

While commenting this achievement, Halim Ates, CEO of Azercell Telecom LLC, said that for the last seven months of the year, number of Azercell subscribers rose by 500,000 and exceeded 3.5 million.

“We are growing constantly in the conditions of tough competitiveness. Exceeding 3.5 million level of subscribers demonstrates very clearly this development. In addition, we create possibilities for our subscribers to benefit both from leading technologies and reasonable tariffs,” Mr. Ates said.

The number of the Company’s subscribers has been 1 million in 2004 and reached 2 million in 2006. Later last year the figure outnumbered 3 million and the Company has decided to award Toyota car to the 3 millionth subscriber.