Geocell ( ka, ჯეოსელი) is a mobile communication brand owned by

Silknet Silknet JSC ( ka, სილქნეტი) is a telecommunication company in Georgia, and a subsidiary of Silk Road Group. Silknet delivers various telecom services to more than one million customers across the whole country. Silknet is the lar ...

. Geocell is the first

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

operator entered Georgian market. Geocell was founded as an independent company in 1996 with a shared Georgian and Turkish investment. Control of the company was held by the Georgian side. The company's 900 MHz

network became fully operational in March 1997. On 27 March 2001, Geocell acquired Georgia's third largest GSM provider "GT Mobile", renamed it into its second branch "Lai-Lai", and started operating on the 1800 MHz frequency. Alongside standard

and

GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), also called 2.5G, is a mobile data standard on the 2G cellular communication network's Global System for Mobile Communications, global system for mobile communications (GSM). Networks and mobile devices wit ...

services, the company owns a

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. UMTS uses Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) radio access technolog ...

license (2100 MHz), enabling 3G technologies including

HSDPA High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunic ...

. From 2007 until 2018, Geocell was part of the

TeliaSonera Telia Company AB is a Swedish Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Telia also owns TV4 Media which includes TV4 in S ...

Group. Since 2018 it has been a part of

.SILKNET ACQUIRES GEOCELL
/ref> Geocell's coverage area occupies more than 98% of the country's territory. Geocell subscribers are able to use roaming service in 150 countries worldwide. Nowadays, the number of registered Geocell subscribers is around 2 million people. In December 2023, the first widely available 5G network was launched in Georgia.

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* Telecommunications companies of Georgia (country) Companies based in Tbilisi Telecommunications companies established in 1996 1996 establishments in Georgia (country) Brands of Georgia (country) 2018 mergers and acquisitions {{Georgia-stub

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