The Government exempted Uzbektelecom from payment of state duty to issuing license for conducting activities on designing, construction and exploitation of mobile communication network and payments for use of radio frequencies for five years in part of its activities, conducted by national mobile communication operator UzMobile.

The resolution said that freed funds will be used to form charter capital of Uzbektelecom and directed to development of national mobile communication operator UzMobile.

The Government entrusted the State Tax Committee and the State Committee for communication, information and telecommunication technologies of Uzbekistan to take under control targeted use of freed funds.

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov signed a resolution “On measures on organization of activity of national operator of mobile communication” on 12 February 2014.

Uzbekistan creates national operator of mobile communication on the base of Uzmobile, a branch of the joint stock company “Uzbektelecom”.

New network of GSM standard will be created on the base of frequency resources, which are earlier used by Uzdunrobita (subsidiary of MTS in Uzbekistan). At the same time, Uzmobile will continue to render mobile communication service on CDMA-450 standards.