20 years since the first GSM call

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  • The first GSM call in Tatarstan and one of the first in Russia was on 3 March 1999. Then-Tatarstan President M. Shaimiev and Chairman of the Russian State Committee for Communications and Informatisation Aleksandr Krupnov made this symbolic call
  • First Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev making the first call on Santel mobile network, 1999
  • TAIF-Telcom and Ericsson completed the construction of the first GSM network in Tatarstan, Stockholm, 1999
  • In 2001, TAIF-Telcom began the execution of the second stage of the project: by the end of the year, the mobile network covered all regional centres and augmented the number of subscribers up to 100,000, Stockholm
  • Talks with officials of the government of Sweden, a visit to Scania and Ericsson concerns, Stockholm, 25 March 2002
  • The deal on sale of Santel is a historic event for Tatarstan
  • Handshake to mark the conclusion of the deal on sale of the biggest mobile operator TAIF-Telcom to Mobile TeleSystems PJSC, Kazan, 2003
  • Signing of documents in the office of Sistema PJSFC, Moscow, 26 March 2003. TAIF PJSC represented by R. Shaimiev, R. Shigabutdinov, A. Abugov
  • TVT is one of the promising areas of business that TAIF hasn’t so far mastered today

This year we all celebrate a historic event whose scale and importance are proved by time. The first phone call in GSM by Santel operator that belonged to TAIF-Telcom was made in Kazan 20 years ago. Realnoe Vremya online newspaper is publishing a photo archive of TAIF JSC linked with this memorable date.

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