GSM Kazakhstan/Kcell is affiliated to TeliaSonera, the largest Scandinavian telecommunications holding, JSC "Kazakhtelekom" JSC holds 49% of the Company's interest.

Currently GSM Kazakhstan/Kcell is the cellular operator rendering services of GSM-900/1800 standard. The mission of the Company is to make cellular communication available to all citizens of Kazakhstan, generating value to the utmost extent to its subscribers and rendering services of the highest quality.

Veysel Aral, Chief Executiev officer of GSM Kazakhstan/Kcell

"GSM Kazakhstan" company was established in 1998 and since February 1999 it began rendering services of cellular communication under the trade mark Kcell. Activ brand was launched in September the same year. Owning to the well-thought out marketing strategy long since the beginning of the year 2000 the Company's subscriber data base has exceeded 100,000 people and doubled by the end of the same year. Today the Company's subscriber data base exceeds 7 million.

From the very beginning of its operation GSM Kazakhstan/Kcell has been playing the role of the trend setter giving tone, trends and tendency to development of the Kazakhstani cellular market. Through the dynamic actions of the Company in the Kazakhstani mobile market the Company was first to launch GPRS/EDGE technologies, and millions of Kazakhstani people got possibility to enjoy such services as Mobile Internet, WAP, and MMS throughout the country. Currently the Company is at the stage of active preparation of implementation of third generation cellular network - 3G that will allow the Company's subscribers to employ such revolutionary services as Video-calls and Mobile Television.

Over a period of 11-year operation in the market GSM Kazakhstan continuously expands the range of coverage by the network signal. As of December 2009 the cellular communication provided by the Company is available in 2499 cities and settlements of Kazakhstan. Company covers all settlements with population over 5000 inhabitants. Occupying settlements of min 1000 inhabitants by signal is the company’s priority until 2012.

For many years GSM Kazakhstan is realizing principles of socially responsible business and developing socially responsible business model . That is why the Company takes the lead in and renders support to many publicly important projects. Every year GSM Kazakhstan implements about 50 social programs, and the overall volume of investments to the social sphere from the very beginning exceeded 5 million U.S. dollars.