MTN Irancell

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MTN Irancell
Type	Private
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Tehran
Key people	Dr. Ebrahim Mahmoudzadeh (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
Industry	Telecommunications
Products	Prepaid and postpaid mobile phones
Website	http://www.irancell.ir/

MTN Irancell is the second mobile phone network operator of Iran. It is part of the South Africa-based MTN Group.

MTN Irancell operates on GSM 900/1800 and is the first network operator of Iran which provides GPRS service and will let subscribers choose their desired number (as on September 2008) from between +989350000000 to +989369999999.

MTN Irancell is a private joint stock company governed by the Commercial Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran as amended in the year 1347 of the Iranian calendar, 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.

MTN Irancell is comprised of two shareholders who are 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 Electronic Industries (IEI), known as SAIRAN (Militarian Company)
Mostazafan Foundation, known as Bonyad

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 of 2005 and the second mobile operator license was awarded to MTN Irancell on 27 November 2005 [1384/09/06] by *MCIT/CRA.