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Company type | Joint Stock Company |
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Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | Almaty, Kazakhstan (September 26, 1995 ) |
Founder | Government of Republic of Kazakhstan |
Defunct | January 31, 2011 |
Fate | Merged |
Successor | Kazteleradio, JSC (OTAU TV) |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Kazakhstan |
Key people | Serik Burkitbaev (President); Bazarbek Kartzhanov (Chairman); Aleksey Chernov (Vice-President, CTO) |
Services | Satellite broadcasting |
Parent | KBC, JSC; Samghau Holding, JSC; NIH Arna Media, JSC |
Subsidiaries | Nursat, JSC |
Website | www www |
Katelco (Russian: КАТЕЛКО) was a telecommunications company in Kazakhstan founded in 1995. It closed in 2011.
Katelco was established in 1995 as an integrated system to provide satellite television (including direct-to-home service Katelco Plus), radio, data transmission (including internet access), and telephony.[1][2] The name is an abbreviation for "Kazakhstani Telecommunications Company".
Katelco provided broadcast services for national, regional and corporate TV.[3] It owned and operated of the National Satellite Broadcasting System (NSBS) and Satellite Multi-channel Digital Broadcasting System of Direct Broadcasting "Katelco Plus". It owned main control center in Almaty and teleports in Nur-Sultan and Oral with uplink facilities in other regional capitals.[4]
Among other resources, it used the KazSat satellite.[5]
In 2007 Katelco was listed among top 10 Kazakhstan communication operators by the Russian telecom business magazine InformCourier-Svyaz.[5]
31 January 2011 the company was merged into the Kazteleradio, JSC - national terrestrial and satellite operator of Kazakhstan for television and radio broadcasting.