Bakcell

📍 Baku, Azerbaijan🗓 Founded 1994👥 449 employees💰 Last funded 2019

Bakcell is the first company to provide mobile communications services in Azerbaijan. Bakcell network covers 92.6% of the country’s territory and 99.9% of the population thanks to around 9000 base stations. Being the leader in innovation and one of the largest investors in the non-oil sector of the economy of Azerbaijan, Bakcell provides a wide range of high-quality modern telecommunication (voice and mobile internet) services to more than 3 million customers. Today, Bakcell ensures the provision of the best quality and fastest 4G services in all regions of the country (excluding Nakhchivan AR) thanks to its long-term successful strategy of investing largely in the latest technologies and its best and fastest 4G network in Azerbaijan. Bakcell was the first mobile operator to introduce 4G internet in Baku subway. The highest quality and fastest speed of Bakcell’s mobile internet is being regularly recognized on the local and international levels. In 2018 Bakcell was named “Azerbaijan’s Fastest Mobile Network” by “Ookla” company, world-famous for its “Speedtest” service. It was confirmed that Bakcell has the best average download speed in the country, as well as the lowest average latency time on the market. In 2017, Bakcell network was recognized as the “Best in Test” in Azerbaijan by P3 Communications, being one of the most trusted independent authorities in mobile benchmarking. In 2021, Bakcell is acknowledged as “Azerbaijan’s Fastest Mobile Network” anew by Ookla®. As a pioneer in the local telecommunications industry Bakcell often comes up with novelties and state-of-the-art solutions designed to meet the wishes and requirements of modern communication users.

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