Katelco
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| Company 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 | , |
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 www |
Katelco (Russian: КАТЕЛКО) was a telecommunications company in Kazakhstan founded in 1995. It closed in 2011.
History[edit]
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.[1][2] The name is an abbreviation for "Kazakhstani Telecommunications Company".
Katelco provided broadcast services for national, regional and corporate TV.[3] 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.[4]
Among other resources, it used the KazSat satellite.[5]
In 2007 Katelco was listed among top 10 Kazakhstan communication operators by the Russian telecom business magazine InformCourier-Svyaz.[5]
31 January 2011 the company was merged into the Kazteleradio, JSC - national terrestrial and satellite operator of Kazakhstan for television and radio broadcasting.
References[edit]
- ^ "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
- ^ a b "Kazakhstan: Telecommunication 'Star of the East' ", IKS magazine, May 1, 2007
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