MegaFon Tajikistan hands its wired broadband customers to Tojiktelecom from 19 October

MegaFon Tajikistan, the brand of TT-Mobile CJSC, said its customers for fixed broadband, or wired internet, will be served by OJSC Tojiktelecom from 19 October 2026, in a notice to subscribers dated 8 October. The operator said the change would bring fixed communication services under the responsibility of a single organisation and would help the development, quality and availability of the service.

The notice is two sentences long. It does not say how many customers are affected, whether cables, equipment or contracts are being sold or transferred, whether Tojiktelecom pays anything, or whether tariffs and contract terms change for the customers concerned. It describes Tojiktelecom as a partner and gives no reason for the timing. MegaFon's news page carries no fuller statement.

A mobile operator without a fixed arm

The handover leaves MegaFon Tajikistan as a mobile business. In a review marking its 25th anniversary on 3 September, the operator said it had more than 2 million subscribers, which it described as roughly one in five inhabitants. It said its network comprised about 1,860 base station sites, of which about 1,550, or more than 80 per cent, support 4G, and that its own fibre-optic network linking cities and regions exceeds 2,600 km.

The same review puts the operator's coverage at 87.2 per cent of the population, with 85.4 per cent able to use 4G, and says it has invested $290.5 million in infrastructure since 2012. It says the company employs 770 people. Founded in September 2001 with a few base stations in Dushanbe, it launched 3G four years later and began testing 4G in 2011, the review says. The review does not give revenue, profit or market share, and does not say how many of the 2 million subscribers are active.

The review gives no figures for the fixed broadband business, and does not say how much of the fibre serves homes rather than the backbone. It highlights instead eSIM, VoLTE and the operator's MegaFon Life app, which it describes as a super app that handles account management, money transfers, air tickets and car insurance, and prepaid plans covering three, six or nine months.

Other changes to terms

The operator has made other changes to how it charges for and carries traffic. From 18 September, the rounding threshold for mobile internet sessions became 200 KB, according to a notice of 8 September, which does not give the previous threshold. On 15 October the operator said more than 700,000 subscribers were using voice over LTE (VoLTE) and about 800,000 more had handsets that support it, putting the service within reach of 1.5 million subscribers, according to a company release. The release says MegaFon Tajikistan launched VoLTE in 2022.

The VoLTE figure gives a rough sense of how far the base has moved to 4G handsets: on the operator's own numbers, about 35 per cent of its more than 2 million subscribers already use VoLTE, on Backhaul's arithmetic. Because the subscriber figure is a floor, the true share is likely lower.

What comes next

The fixed-line transfer takes effect on 19 October. Backhaul found no decision on the change on the Telegram channel of Tajikistan's Communication Service, the regulator, and the notice does not say whether licences move with the customers. At the International Telecommunication Union's regional forum in Dushanbe on 29 and 30 September, the Communication Service's chairman cited the country's Communications Sector Development Strategy to 2040 and a Digital Village initiative, according to the ITU's draft outcome report; neither mentions fixed broadband consolidation.

The next document to watch for is any statement from Tojiktelecom setting out the terms for the customers it takes on.