{"id":4867,"date":"2018-12-11T03:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2023-12-04T03:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T03:38:11","slug":"statement-regarding-acquisition-of-telia-companys-holdings-in-kcell-by-kazakhtelecom-jsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?p=4867&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Statement regarding acquisition of Telia Company\u2019s holdings in Kcell by Kazakhtelecom JSC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almaty, 12&nbsp;December 2018&nbsp;\u2014 Kcell Joint Stock Company (\u00abKcell\u00bb or&nbsp;the \u00abCompany\u00bb) (LSE, KASE: KCEL), notes that Telia Company has announced that its total holdings in&nbsp;Kcell have been acquired by&nbsp;Kazakhtelecom JSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following Kcell\u2019s IPO at&nbsp;the end of&nbsp;2012, Telia owned a&nbsp;24&nbsp;percent direct stake in&nbsp;the Company as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;a&nbsp;further holding via its 58.55 percent stake in&nbsp;Fintur Holdings B.V. (Fintur), which owns 51&nbsp;percent of&nbsp;Kcell. The remainder of&nbsp;Fintur is&nbsp;held by&nbsp;Turkcell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kcell provides the text of&nbsp;the announcement below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Telia Company and Fintur Holdings B.V. (Fintur), jointly owned by&nbsp;Telia Company and Turkcell, have agreed to&nbsp;sell their 75&nbsp;percent holding in&nbsp;the leading Kazakhi telecommunications operator Kcell JSC, to&nbsp;the telecom operator Kazakhtelecom JSC, a&nbsp;company controlled by&nbsp;the government of&nbsp;the Republic of&nbsp;Kazakhstan through the sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna. Telia Company has also signed an&nbsp;agreement to&nbsp;acquire Turkcell\u2019s share in&nbsp;Fintur in&nbsp;a&nbsp;separate transaction to&nbsp;become the sole shareholder of&nbsp;the company, which enables Telia Company to&nbsp;repatriate cash from Fintur.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teliacompany.com\/en\/news\/press-releases\/2018\/12\/telia-company-divests-its-interest-in-kcell-and-dissolves-fintur-partnership-with-turkcell\/\">The full announcement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enquiries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Kcell<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Investor Relations<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Irina Shol<\/td><td>Tel: +7&nbsp;727 2582755&nbsp;ext.&nbsp;1002<a href=\"mailto:Investor_relations@kcell.kz\">Investor_relations@kcell.kz<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MediaNatalya Eskova<\/td><td>\u0422\u0435l: +7&nbsp;727 2582755&nbsp;ext.&nbsp;1902<a href=\"mailto:Pressa@kcell.kz\">Pressa@kcell.kz<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>International Media<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Instinctif Partners<\/td><td>Tel: +44&nbsp;207&nbsp;457 2020<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Galyna Kulachek, Kay Larsen<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Company Overview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kcell provides mobile voice telecommunications services, messaging services, value-added services such as&nbsp;multimedia and mobile content services, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;data transmission services including internet access. It&nbsp;has two brands: the Kcell brand, which is&nbsp;targeted primarily at&nbsp;corporate subscribers (including government subscribers), and the Activ brand, which is&nbsp;targeted primarily at&nbsp;mass-market subscribers. The Company offers its services through its extensive, high quality network, which covers substantially all of&nbsp;the populated territory of&nbsp;Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;December 2012, Kcell successfully completed its offering of&nbsp;GDR\u2019s on&nbsp;the London Stock Exchange and common shares on&nbsp;KASE. The price was set at&nbsp;USD 10.50 per GDR and KZT 1,578.68 per share with each GDR representing one share. The offering consisted of&nbsp;a&nbsp;sale by&nbsp;TeliaSonera of&nbsp;50&nbsp;million shares, which represent 25&nbsp;percent of&nbsp;Kcell\u2019s share capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kcell plans to&nbsp;benefit from the significant growth potential for mobile data services in&nbsp;Kazakhstan. The Company intends to&nbsp;continue to&nbsp;invest in&nbsp;the deployment of&nbsp;its 3G\/4G network to&nbsp;expand coverage and to&nbsp;introduce high quality services. Kcell aims to&nbsp;maintain its market leadership in&nbsp;terms of&nbsp;revenue and the number of&nbsp;subscribers by&nbsp;offering its products and services at&nbsp;competitive prices, expanding its offering of&nbsp;products and services, maintaining the high quality of&nbsp;its network and enhancing its brand value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almaty, 12&nbsp;December 2018&nbsp;\u2014 Kcell Joint Stock Company (\u00abKcell\u00bb or&nbsp;the \u00abCompany\u00bb) (LSE, KASE: KCEL), notes that Telia Company has announced that its total holdings in&nbsp;Kcell have been acquired by&nbsp;Kazakhtelecom JSC. Following Kcell\u2019s IPO at&nbsp;the end of&nbsp;2012, Telia owned a&nbsp;24&nbsp;percent direct stake in&nbsp;the Company as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;a&nbsp;further holding via its 58.55 percent stake in&nbsp;Fintur Holdings B.V. (Fintur), which &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?p=4867&#038;lang=en\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statement regarding acquisition of Telia Company\u2019s holdings in Kcell by Kazakhtelecom JSC<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414.png",1920,881,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-300x138.png",300,138,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-768x352.png",768,352,true],"large":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-1024x470.png",1024,470,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414-1536x705.png",1536,705,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043f-\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438-\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f-\u0421\u0414.png",1920,881,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Almaty, 12&nbsp;December 2018&nbsp;\u2014 Kcell Joint Stock Company (\u00abKcell\u00bb or&nbsp;the \u00abCompany\u00bb) (LSE, KASE: KCEL), notes that Telia Company has announced that its total holdings in&nbsp;Kcell have been acquired by&nbsp;Kazakhtelecom JSC. Following Kcell\u2019s IPO at&nbsp;the end of&nbsp;2012, Telia owned a&nbsp;24&nbsp;percent direct stake in&nbsp;the Company as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;a&nbsp;further holding via its 58.55 percent stake in&nbsp;Fintur Holdings B.V. (Fintur), which owns 51&nbsp;percent of&nbsp;Kcell. The remainder of&nbsp;Fintur is&nbsp;held by&nbsp;Turkcell. Kcell provides the text of&nbsp;the announcement below: Telia Company and Fintur Holdings B.V. (Fintur), jointly owned by&nbsp;Telia Company and Turkcell, have agreed to&nbsp;sell their 75&nbsp;percent holding in&nbsp;the leading Kazakhi telecommunications operator Kcell JSC, to&nbsp;the telecom operator Kazakhtelecom&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?cat=13&#038;lang=en\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"investors_admin","url":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/?author=17"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investors.kcell.kz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}