Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) is the product of founder Ehsan Bayat's mission to reconnect Afghanistan with the wider world. Bayat, an Afghan immigrant and a successful businessman in the United States, began to realize his dream in 2001. By December 2001, his U.S. company, Telephone Systems International, Inc. began seeking equipment vendors willing to build a phone system in a country still emerging from more than two decades of war.
Afghan Wireless would battle logistical problems, political instability, physical insecurity and hours of environmental challenges to launch its service. Despite hardships, on April 6, 2002, His Excellency Hamid Karzai inaugurated the GSM network with an international call to Germany. The system was launched in a mere seven weeks after the arrival of the first equipment.
Afghan Wireless is now the largest provider of telecommunications services in Afghanistan, with GSM mobile networks in 34 provinces: Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Mazar-E-Sharif, and Jalalabad are just a few. Afghan Wireless is a joint venture between Telephone Systems International, Inc. and the Ministry of Communications.
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