MTN Irancell
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Irancell is the second mobile phone
Mobile phone
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 network operator of Iran. It is 49% owned by the South Africa
South Africa
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-based MTN Group.

MTN Irancell operates on GSM 900/1800 and is the first network operator of Iran which provides GPRS and MMS
Multimedia Messaging Service
Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length.The most popular use is to send photographs from...

 service and will let subscribers choose their desired number (as on July 2010) from between +989350000000 to +989399999999.

Irancell is a private joint stock company
Joint stock company
A joint-stock company is a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company...

 governed by the Commercial Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran as amended in the year 1347 of the Iranian calendar
Iranian calendar
The Iranian calendars or sometimes called Persian calendars are a succession of calendars invented or used for over two millennia in Greater Iran...

, which is 1969 in the Gregorian calendar, and the provisions of its Articles of Association. The Company’s registration date is 14 August 2005 [1385/05/23] and the registration number 252949. The Company has been established for an indefinite period of time.

Shareholders

MTN Irancell has two shareholders: the Iran Electronic Development Company (IEDC) and MTN International (Mauritius) Limited. The corporate structure of the company is as follows:

IEDC currently has two key shareholders
  • Iran Electronics Industries (IEI), known as SAIRAN (Militarian Company)
  • Mostazafan Foundation, a Bonyad
    Bonyad
    Bonyads are charitable trusts in Iran that play a significant role in Iran's non-petroleum economy, controlling an estimated 20% of Iran's GDP. Exempt from taxes, they have been called "bloated", and "a major weakness of Iran’s economy", and criticized for reaping "huge subsidies from government",...


Services

The company provides the following services:
  • Provision of wholesale and retail telecommunication services;
  • Sales of network traffic capacity to local or international carriers or entities;
  • Rental of network infrastructure facilities to local or international carriers or entities;
  • Provision of the Internet and data and digital platform related products and services;
  • Provision of all other sources of value added services that is currently available and to be developed in the future;
  • Dealing with e-commerce, mobile-commerce activities of the above telecommunication networks;
  • Provision of customer services, including but not limited to customer relationship management and Call Centre services


A shareholders Agreement was signed between IEDC and MTN in November 2005 and the second mobile operator license was awarded to Irancell on 27 November 2005 [1384/09/06] by *MCIT/CRA.

Huawei
Huawei
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 (China), Ericsson
Ericsson
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 (Sweden) and Nokia
Nokia
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 (Finland), are providing the infrastructure for IranCell, in partnership with local companies in six defined regions.

WiMAX

From January 2010, Irancell began their WiMAX
WiMAX
WiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations...

internet services in major cities of Tehran, Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Karaj and Ahvaz.

Irancell can providethe service only in a limited of provinces because it is not a nationwide WiMAX operator. The only nationwide operator is Mobin Net which still couldn't to bring up a reliable nationwide network for subscribers.

WiMAX subscribers can choose between Prepaid and Post Paid subscriptions.
The costs can be paid through MTN-Irancell voucher cards or Credit Cards.

Maximum bandwidth provided by Irancell's WIMAX internet, is limited to 2Mbps for about $100/mo,cheapest 2Mbps unlimited Internet connection fee in the country. Due to Iranian law, home users are not allowed to access bandwidths more than 128Kbps. The same law applies to wimax service where home users can only choose between 64Kbps and 128Kbps services.
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