Geocell ( ka, ჯეოსელი) is a mobile communication brand owned by

Silknet Silknet JSC ( ka, სილქნეტი) is a telecommunication company in Georgia, and a subsidiary of Silk Road Group. Silknet delivers various telecom services to more than one million customers across the whole country. Silknet is the larg ...

. Geocell is the first

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as ...

operator entered Georgian market. Geocell was founded as an independent company in 1996 with a shared Georgian and Turkish investment. Control of the company was held by the Georgian side. The company's 900 MHz

network became fully operational in March 1997. On 27 March 2001 Geocell acquired Georgia's third largest GSM provider "GT Mobile", renamed it into its second branch "Lai-Lai", and started operating on the 1800 MHz frequency. Alongside standard

and

GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Insti ...

services the company owns a

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third generation mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed and maintained by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), UMTS is a component of the Inte ...

license (2100 MHz), enabling 3G technologies including

HSDPA High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is an amalgamation of two mobile protocols—High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)—that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G mobile telecommunicat ...

. From 2007 until 2018 Geocell was part of the

TeliaSonera Telia Company AB is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Telia also owns TV4 Media which includes TV4 in Sweden, MTV Oy in Fi ...

Group. Since 2018 it has been a part of

.SILKNET ACQUIRES GEOCELL
/ref> Geocell coverage area occupies more than 98% of the country territory. Geocell subscribers are able to use roaming service in 150 countries worldwide. Nowadays number of registered Geocell subscribers is around 2 million people.

Logo history

1996–2009

2009–2018

2018–2020

2020–present

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* Telecommunications companies of Georgia (country) Companies based in Tbilisi Telecommunications companies established in 1996 1996 establishments in Georgia (country) Brands of Georgia (country) 2018 mergers and acquisitions {{Georgia-stub