October 30, 1402 at 07:11
Irancell’s 17th anniversary press conference was held, and the CEO of Irancell, while explaining the functions and plans, considered the arrival of this operator as a turning poi of the optical fiber project.
Yesterday, Irancell celebrated the 17th anniversary of the launch of its mobile phone network in a ceremony attended by Irancell managers and media members. Also, Dr. Bijan Abbasi Arend, CEO of Irancell, on the sidelines of the 17th anniversary press conference of this operator, opened the 650th site of the fifth generation of Irancells and said in his speech that the ery of Irancell is the turning poi of the optical fiber project in Iran.
The press conference of the 17th anniversary of the launch of the Irancell mobile phone network was held in the morning of Saturday, October 29, 1402 in the ceral building of Irancell. In this ceremony, Dr. Bijan Abbasi Arend, CEO of Irancell, deputy directors, general managers and senior managers of this operator, as well as members of the media were prese. The CEO of Irancell preseed the latest achievemes of this operator in various fields in several sections. In the first part of his speech, he announced the investme of about 10 billion dollars since the start of Irancell’s work and said that this operator currely has 64.4 million subscribers, of which 45.5 million are mobile iernet subscribers. Also, this operator now has a 43.3% market share and has been able to increase the number of permane subscribers to 7.8 million subscribers in the last year. Therefore, the number of Irancell permane SIM card subscribers has increased by more than 25% compared to the same period last year.
In the coinuation of his speech, Dr. Bijan Abbasi Arend preseed the numbers and statistics of the network usage in the past year. Based on this, the record of daily data consumption in Irancell network happened in September 1402, which was equal to 22 petabytes. This record is considered a very large number in the scale of operators in the Middle East region. Also, according to real-time reports, the record of data consumption in Irancell network reached 23 petabytes two days ago, on October 28. In addition, the consumption rate of Irancell’s most trafficked site in the last year was about 6.5 terabytes in one day. 309 million minutes was a record for the daily consumption of calls on Irancell network on March 13, 1401, and the record of text messages se on Irancell network happened on the first day of Farudin this year, when 381 million SMS messages were se on Irancell network. .
Irancell’s plans to develop the optical fiber project
The CEO of Irancell further explained about the importa developme projects of this operator in the last year. According to Abbasi Arend, with the plans made this year, Irancell was able to obtain the Unified Network and Communication Services License (UNSP) from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. After obtaining this license, the developme of fixed services is supposed to be on the agenda alongside the developme of mobile services. One of Irancell’s strategic plans is to play a role in the optical fiber project, which makes Irancell no longer just a mobile operator, but also plays a role as a fixed operator. Abbasi Arend added that Irancell’s ery io fixed services is considered a big milestone both for the coury’s information and communication technology industry and for Irancell itself. One of the goals for eering this industry is to help develop infrastructure, develop technology, help improve quality and speed, and create competition in order to provide more economical services to subscribers and businesses.
He also stated that based on the iegrated license for network and communication services that was graed to Irancell in August this year, we committed to provide access to these services for 5 million households in 415 Make the city possible. Of course, the expansion of optical fiber in Irancell operator had already started and currely 2200 km of optical fiber infrastructure has been created in the metro layer and this company plans to create a million coverage throughout the coury by the end of this year.
Bijan Abbasi Arend said about the progress of optical fiber projects in differe cities of Iran, based on the plans made in the city of Babol, we need 120 km of optical fiber, of which 90 km have been created so far, and conditions have been provided for 25 thousand households to use this service. . He predicted that the eire city of Babol in Mazandaran province will be covered by optical fiber by Irancell by November of this year.
Last week, on the 22nd of October, Irancell also concluded a memorandum of understanding for the developme of access to optical fiber for homes and businesses (FTTx) in Shiraz city with the cooperation of Shiraz municipality, and also a coract for issuing a drilling license for the optical fiber project for homes and businesses (FTTx) in Sadra city with The cooperation of Sadra Municipality has been signed with the presence of the Minister of Communications. More than 165 kilometers of drilling and ducting for the optical fiber project are to be done in Sadra city, of which 65 kilometers have been implemeed so far, and 30 thousand resides of this city have been able to access this service with a speed of more than 900 Mbps.
In the coinuation of this press conference, Irancell’s fiber optic speed test was conducted live in the presence of the media and the download speed was recorded at 947.62 megabits per second. The CEO of Irancell said in this regard that the high speed of optical fiber indicates the high capacity of the fiber, which can improve the quality of the subscribers’ experience. The developme of optical fiber should have been accelerated a long time ago in order to reduce the pressure on the mobile network, and fortunately, now with the support of the governme and the investmes made, we are carrying out this project with strength. He expressed hope that the infrastructure will be developed in such a way that every household and business can have access to high-speed fiber optic iernet in less than a moh.
Irancell’s 650th 5G site was put io operation
In the coinuation of the press conference of the 17th anniversary of the Irancell mobile phone network, the CEO of this operator preseed the statistics of mobile iernet coverage in the coury as well as the number of fifth generation sites. He stated that now more than 91% of the coury’s population coverage is covered by Irancell’s 2G and 3G network, and all cities and most of the villages with more than 20 households in the coury, which make up 83% of the coury’s population coverage, have access to the 4G network. They have Irancell’s LTE. We also have more than 780,000 subscribers of Irancell’s 4th generation TD-LTE fixed iernet in 160 cities of the coury.
Abbasi Arand iroduced Irancell as the flagship of the iroduction and developme of the fifth generation of mobile phones in Iran and said that in the last two years and in coinuation of the comprehensive developme of the fifth generation in the coury, we have activated a large number of 5G sites in most of the provinces of the coury. Currely, 187 5G sites are active in Tehran province, and at the same time as the 17th anniversary of Irancell’s mobile phone network, the number of sites of this operator reached 650. According to the CEO of Irancell, uil today 6.2 million subscribers whose mobile phones support the 5th generation network are active in the Irancell network and 550 thousand subscribers use Irancell’s 5th generation service. But due to the existing restrictions and the problems related to the locking of some mobile phone models due to sanctions, some Iranian users have not been able to use the 5th generation of the mobile phone network. These limitations have faced problems in the 5th generation developme program and investme in this network. We are trying to solve these deficiencies and problems. Also, developing the coury’s infrastructure in underserved areas and creating a connection to the national information network for the resides of these areas, along with the importance of developing new generations of mobile phones, are on Irancell’s agenda.
Abbasi Arend said regarding the measures taken in the field of rural developme, one of our corporate and license obligations is the developme of rural services. Based on this, we have launched 5845 sites in rural areas with more than 20 households, and 150 thousand billion Rials have been invested to remove deprivation from these underprivileged areas. By doing these measures, 30,860 villages and 13 million people of these areas are currely covered by Irancell high-speed iernet. Irancell will fulfill all its obligations in the national rural developme project by the end of this year.
The CEO of Irancell also meioned the statistics related to data switch ceers and said that in terms of the infrastructure of switch and data ceers, we currely have 3200 racks in these ceers that have been established in the coury and 8 ceers in differe provinces. In addition, 240 racks are in the curre developme program and in the implemeation stage, and the program to increase the capacity by 900 racks is on the agenda for the next two years.
The necessity of reforming the tariff and increasing investme
In the coinuation of Irancell’s 17th anniversary press conference, financial information related to the activities of this operator was preseed. In this regard, Bijan Abbasi Arend said that Irancell has paid a total of 787 thousand billion Rials of its income to the governme since its inception uil September of this year. Also, the operating income of Irancell in the first half of this year has grown by 26.6% compared to the same period last year, and the income from data and digital services has also grown by 21%. From the beginning of Irancell’s activity uil September this year, about 10 billion dollars have been invested in total.
The CEO of Irancell compared the most expensive and the cheapest iernet price per gigabyte in differe couries and said that Iran has the cheapest iernet tariff in the world at $0.07 per gigabyte. The amou of investme by operators in the past years and the average selling price of each gigabyte of Iernet per year show that we need to revise tariffs more than ever to increase income and preve the reduction of network quality. A significa part of the operators’ costs are for the provision of equipme and infrastructure, which are in dollars; But the income of rials along with the increase in the price of the dollar have made the ability of operators to invest and improve the quality of services to decrease day by day. The coinuation of this trend makes users not satisfied with the Iernet experience.
Irancell’s leadership in the ecosystem of digital life
The next part of this ceremony was the explanation of Irancell’s overall strategy, vision and mission. The CEO of this operator stated that managing the digital life ecosystem for customers and businesses is one of the most importa goals of Irancell. In the last few years, Irancell’s strategy has been to move from a basic communication service company or Telco to a technology-orieed company or Techno so that various services can be provided to subscribers both in the infrastructure layer and in the service and platform layer and the digital ecosystem of the coury can be empowered.
He we on to describe Irancell’s digital transformation plans, empowerme approach using artificial ielligence and cyber security issues to protect journalists’ data and added that Irancell’s digital transformation roadmap and maturity docume have been drawn and we are implemeing it.
Responding to half of the subscribers is done with digital channels
As a digital operator, Irancell has developed various services and launched digital services according to the needs of users, including Irancell My super application with 50 million installs and 20.3 million active users, Lens Iernet TV as the only real IPTV in the coury with more than Among the 8 million registered users and 5 million active users, he meioned the services and applications of Rubika, comprehensive online education platform Dana, Modio, Yellowname, Yellowdevices, Yellowhub, Ravito, Pishvaz song service and Pocketjet wallet. Abbasi Arend iroduced Jibjet as an importa product of Irancell among digital services. This service currely has 15 million users and we plan to expand its services and activities with the help of the coury’s banking network.
The CEO of Irancell also explained about the communication activities with customers and said that more than 50% of the support to subscribers is done through Irancell’s digital channels. The customer relations departme has performed very well in the last one year and has handled more than ten million requests. Also, 51 perce of these requests are managed through digital channels, and based on surveys, customers have had 91 perce satisfaction with Irancell’s customer service.
The connected car service is being developed
Bijan Abbasi Arend explained the achievemes of Irancell in the field of eerprise business and iroduced the new products of this sector and other importa products for the digitalization of businesses. According to the CEO of Irancell, the dedicated 5th generation network has been activated for organizations and industries so that the industry sector can move towards the digitization of their processes by focusing on artificial ielligence. In addition, in the connected car project, we have had importa collaborations and coracts with automobile companies. Currely, the sales share of digital charging has reached 98.8%, and direct purchase of products by customers has reached 89%.
Preseation of the achievemes related to Irancell’s iellige human resources, research and developme departme and Irancell Labs group, measures taken to localize equipme, Vista Holding’s activity as Irancell’s investme arm in startups, the activity of Innovation Fund under this holding and Vistamedia’s activity with a new approach to coe production And creating an iermediary link between coe distributors and coe production groups were among the next parts of this ceremony, which were explained by the CEO of Irancell.
Abbasi Arend added that Vistamedia is defined as one of the successful projects supported by Irancell in order to produce domestic coe through IPTV lens and partnership with some domestic platforms. To date, this project has signed coracts with 28 domestic platforms and has increased domestic mohly traffic by more than 35%. The creation of several reality shows and a dedicated studio for coe production and dubbing by this multimedia are among the actions that have been taken in line with Irancell’s developme docume in the field of coe production.
He poied out the importance of sustainability and social responsibility in the strategy layer as well as the curre operations of the organization and described examples of these activities. According to Abbasi Arend, Irancell is trying to ideify and comply with standards related to ESG or the institutionalization of environmeal, social and corporate governance solutions. Irancell’s sustainability report has been coinuously compiled in order to inform the performance in the implemeation and compliance of these standards, and this year it has been published for the third year in a row and has been made available to ierested parties.
The CEO of Irancell considered the fields of sustainable environme, sustainable society, sustainable economy and corporate governance as the pillars of Irancell’s approach to sustainability in business. Among these measures, we can supply energy to the sites with renewable resources, build and renovate schools in underserved areas and equip these schools with digital education facilities, campaign to inform about the protection of Iranian cheetahs and squirrels and oak forests in the Zagros region, select training courses in He poied to low-income areas and equipping boarding schools with small solar power plas and allocating its income to schools.
At the end of this ceremony, Irancell’s one-year performance report was preseed and the CEO of this operator explained the upcoming plans. Then, Dr. Bijan Abbasi Arend and Dr. Saeed Askari, General Manager of Irancell’s Public Relations and Organizational Communications, answered the journalists’ questions.
One of these questions regarding Irancell’s ery io the field of optical fiber service provision and the economic nature of this project was raised for the operator, and the CEO of Irancell stated in this regard that we prepare a complete and comprehensive business plan before starting any project and eer without this plan. We will not become any project. The optical fiber project is also considered an importa infrastructure for providing new services such as 5G service, and on the other hand, its mass launch in the coury using modern methods has reduced the price of the project, and we can provide the high-speed iernet service based on optical fiber to the people of our coury. .
