page_title: MagtiCom
section_title: Milestones
hierarchical_section_title: MagtiCom / History / Milestones
caption_attribution_description: English: Magti GSM logo 1997
context_page_description: MagtiCom, Ltd was founded on February 12, 1996 by Dr. George Jokhtaberidze. On September 22, 1997 the Company made the first commercial call from its mobile network. The services offered by MagtiCom involve as follows: mobile telephony; mobile internet; wireless fixed telephony; cable fixed telephony; satellite television; internet television and fiber-optic internet. Since 2016 MagtiCom started to provide IPTV, VoIP and fiber-optic internet.
  Currently MagtiCom mobile network unites the mobile technologies of all the generations: GSM, UMTS, LTE. These technologies are implemented on 800, 900, 1800 and 2100 MHz frequency bands.
  MagtiCom provides the largest coverage area covering the 98% of the populated and controlled territory of Georgia. The Company is the leader of mobile market. MagtiCom renders various services to up to 3 million customers by means of 53 customer care offices and 80 Outlets in Community Centers. Unprecedented is the contribution of the Company to the development of Georgian economy: 1.983.184.498 lari; July 2020.
  Since 2016 MagtiCom has become an ISP and, as a result, a provider of total range of communications services.
context_section_description: September 22, 1997 – the first commercial call was made from the MagtiCom network;
  2001 – the first GPRS call was made as a result of constructing the GPRS network;
  2005 – Bali – the youth brand of MagtiCom was launched;
  2005 – MagtiCom became the owner of the operational license of CDMA 800 MHz standard;
  2006 – as a result of deployment the 3G network, the 3G services such as video call, mobile TV and high-speed internet were launched;
  2008, April – MagtiCom launched Magti Fix – the CDMA-based fix telephony service, which allows the population of Georgia to enjoy the fixed telephone communication in the regions where, because of difficult terrain of Georgia, similar service had been impossible to be provided;
  2009 – MagtiCom, on the commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, launched, within the frame of creating the United Educational Network, the project of internatization of all the resource centers and public schools of Georgia. Having completed the layout of the network ahead of time and activated over 2,150 public schools and resource centers therein, MagtiCom has started and proceeds with rendering service to those schools and centers;
  2010 – MagtiCom launched Bani – the third mobile brand;
  2012, January – MagtiCom launched MagtiSat, the first operator of satellite broadcasting in Georgia and South Caucasus region providing TV service to any point in the country;
  2013, December – MagtiCom offered 3 new movie channels of its own production dubbed in Georgian to the MagtiSat customers: Magti Hit, Magti Kino and Chveni Magti thus having lain, in parallel with satellite operatorship, foundation to the broadcasting;
  2015, February 1 – MagtiCom launched the 4G/LTE network covering the 92% of the populated and controlled territory of Georgia;
  2016, May 30 – MagtiCom, Ltd. and Caucasus Online LLC signed the purchase contract of operational assets;
  2016, May 31 – First in the telecommunications market of Georgia MagtiCom offered the 4.5 LTE-Advanced network;
  2016, August 1 – MagtiCom started to provide the fiber-optic internet, internet television (IPTV), fixed telephony to the retail market and hosting service, whereupon it officially became the first company in the Georgian market providing full communications service – mobile and fixed telephony, internet and television.
  2016, November 21 - MagtiCom and Deltacom have signed the Contract of purchasing the 100% share of Deltacom;
  Since November, 2017 Magticom is the market leader ISP operator in Georgia;
  According to the March 2019 statistics from the Georgian National Communications Commission, MagtiCom continues to top the charts for fiber-optic internet, television (broadcast transit), and mobile telephony;
  2018, May 2 - First in the telecommunications market of Georgia, MagtiCom launched VoLTE (Voice over Long Term Evolution) technology;
  2019, March 18 - Magti TV Play – TV APP for smartphone;
  From August 1st, 2019, newest technologies in Georgia for the first time – eSIM by Magti!
  2020, On August 13, MagtiCom has started testing the 5th generation technology.
caption: Magti GSM logo 1997
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