About LMT
"Latvijas Mobilais Telefons" Ltd. is the biggest mobile network operator in Latvia. LMT operates on the mobile market since 1992 and is the first mobile network operator in the country.
LMT was established as an operator of NMT system. Within years of its activity the company has undergone rapid development. In January 1995 GSM network has started its operation, in December 1999 a dual 900/1800 Mhz network was opened. Starting with1st September 2002 the customers of the company all over Latvia can use data transmission services. Since December 2004 UMTS 3G mobile communication network has started to operate in commercial mode.
In November 2006 LMT mobile communication network covered 99.00% of the territory of Latvia, enabling 97.76% of Latvian population to enjoy mobile communication possibilities.
Alongside with its main service - voice transmission - LMT similar as the leading mobile communication operators all over the world pays more attention to services related to data transmission and wireless Internet access. LMT was the first in Latvia providing its customers with WAP service (possibility to access the Internet network via mobile handset without using the computer), "Mobile bank", enabling to perform banking operations via mobile handset, as well as GPRS services (data transmission, using data package commutation principle).
Starting with 2005 LMT customers can use EDGE, ensuring in the existing GSM network data transmission speed up to 236 kilobits/sec. That is the highest available mobile data transmission speed in Latvia in the extensive territory, enabling LMT customers to use Mobile TV - watch television broadcasts in their handsets.LMT actively participates in the activities of international telecommunications organizations GSM Association, UMTS Forum and ETSI.
LMT has entered into roaming agreements with 502 mobile communication networks in 183 countries. Starting with 2005 LMT permanent subscribers, as well as O!Karte users can use their handsets not only in European countries, but also in other continents.
The company provides only communication services and does not sell handsets, however, does its best to ensure that customers receive only high quality communication equipment. In Riga and other cities handsets and additional equipment are sold by official distributors, which have entered into agreements on high quality guarantees and customer servicing with LMT. LMT together with its distributors forms to users of mobile communications a single full service network.LMT shareholders:
| VAS "Latvijas Valsts radio un televīzijas centrs" | 23% |
|---|---|
| Lattelecom SIA | 23% |
| Latvijas Republika (VAS "Privatizacijas agentura") | 5% |
| TeliaSonera AB | 24.5% |
| Sonera Holding B.V. | 24.5% |