Russian Rostelecom and Systema companies announced intention of privatizing Azerbaijani Azertelekom and Baki Telefon Rabitəsi operators’ assets.

According to Azerbaijani APA-Economics, Rostelecom plans “to construct a backbone network in the CIS countries and intends to acquire any operators that meet its requirements.”

Azerbaijani Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov stated that both state-owned operators will be privatized next year.
Presently “Bakı Telefon Rabitəsi”, “Azertelekom”, “Teleradio” associations and Azerphone mobile operator are shareholders of Azertelekom JV. The latter jointly with Synterra CJSC had set up “C-Ring Telecom” company.