Katelco

"Kazakhstani Telecommunications" JSC
Kazakh: «Қазақстан телекоммуникациялары» АҚ
«Qazaqstan telekommýnıkatsııalary» AQ
Russian: АО «Казахстанские телекоммуникации»
"Kazakhstani Telecommunications" JSC; Kazakh: «Қазақстан телекоммуникациялары» АҚ; «Qazaqstan telekommýnıkatsııalary» AQ; Russian: АО «Казахстанские телекоммуникации»
Type	Joint Stock Company
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	Almaty, Kazakhstan (September 26, 1995)
Founder	Government of Republic of Kazakhstan
Defunct	January 31, 2011
Fate	Merged
Successor	Kazteleradio, JSC (OTAU TV)
Headquarters	Almaty, Kazakhstan
Area served	Kazakhstan
Key people	Serik Burkitbaev (President);; Bazarbek Kartzhanov (Chairman);; Aleksey Chernov (Vice-President, CTO)
Services	Satellite broadcasting
Parent	KBC, JSC;; Samghau Holding, JSC;; NIH Arna Media, JSC
Subsidiaries	Nursat, JSC
Website	www.katelco.kz,; www.katelcoplus.kz

Katelco (Russian: КАТЕЛКО) was a telecommunications company in Kazakhstan founded in 1995. It closed in 2011.

History

Katelco was established in 1995 as an integrated system to provide satellite television (including direct-to-home service Katelco Plus), radio, data transmission (including internet access), and telephony. The name is an abbreviation for "Kazakhstani Telecommunications Company".

Katelco provided broadcast services for national, regional and corporate TV. It owned and operated of the National Satellite Broadcasting System (NSBS) and Satellite Multi-channel Digital Broadcasting System of Direct Broadcasting "Katelco Plus". It owned main control center in Almaty and teleports in Nur-Sultan and Oral with uplink facilities in other regional capitals.

Among other resources, it used the KazSat satellite.

In 2007 Katelco was listed among top 10 Kazakhstan communication operators by the Russian telecom business magazine InformCourier-Svyaz.

31 January 2011 the company was merged into the Kazteleradio, JSC - national terrestrial and satellite operator of Kazakhstan for television and radio broadcasting.

References

↑ "About Katelco". Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
↑ "Katelco timeline". Retrieved 8 August 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ Marat Terterov (2004) " Doing Business with Kazakhstan" ISBN 0-7494-3990-4, p. 138
↑ http://www.kitel.kz/en/2004/oview/431270397/ "Kazakh Telecommunications CJSC"], a profile from 2004 KITEL exhibition
1 2 "Kazakhstan: Telecommunication 'Star of the East' ", IKS magazine, May 1, 2007

External links

Katelco home page

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[1] "About Katelco". Archived from the original on 3 March 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2018.

[2] "Katelco timeline". Retrieved 8 August 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}

[3] Marat Terterov (2004) " Doing Business with Kazakhstan" ISBN 0-7494-3990-4, p. 138

[4] ttp://www.kitel.kz/en/2004/oview/431270397/ "Kazakh Telecommunications CJSC"], a profile from 2004 KITEL exhibition

[IKS-5] 1 2 "Kazakhstan: Telecommunication 'Star of the East' ", IKS magazine, May 1, 2007