Uzbektelecom director-general Shuhrat Sadikov said the company preserved stable growth rates last year. The income from the main activity made up 237.5 billion soums, which is 34% more than in 2007.

The company implemented a number of large projects in the reporting year. In particular, it completed projects of expansion of CDMA-40 network, modernization of Tashkent city’s local telecommunications network with use of NGN technology, and reconstruction of commutation networks in Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya regions.

Fiber optic communication line with the total length of 367.5 km was laid in the direction Karshi-Termez.

Uzbektelecom conducted works to expand the bandwidth of the international internet channel, which reached 819 Mbps by the year-end, UzA reported.

The company has 19 branches across the country. Its local telecommunication network consists of over 2,000 automated telephone stations with a capacity of more than 1.9 million numbers, of which 88.8% are digital.