Even though the Russian IT market is growing fast, having recovered completely from the 2008-2009 crisis, a number of issues have come to the forefront. The Russian Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev has reported that the country’s information technologies market saw a growth spurt of 14.6 percent in 2011, and the Ministry of Economic Development predicts …
Russia saw an impressive growth of the smartphone market in 2011, reveals an IDC report presented in late February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The unit share of smartphones reached 19% of the total market, up from 5% in 2010. While Nokia remained the market leader, its share its share fell from 58% to just 48% …
The popularity of banks on social networks – especially official corporate pages on Facebook or Vkontakte, and Twitter accounts – has increased more than 50-fold over the past year, says a report from Artenom Consulting. “One third of the country’s 100 largest banks has either established an official presence on social networks or is using …
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Online advertising spending surpassed print advertising for the first time in 2011, the Russian Association of Communication Agencies (AKAR) annnouced in its annual report, published this week. According to the report, the Russian online advertising market reached $1.4 billion, up 56% from 2010, demonstrating the fastest growth among the different segments of the market. In …
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A total of 4.5 million Twitter accounts had been created Russian users as of January 1, 2012 – a three-fold increase over the 1.5 million recorded a year earlier – according to a recent study by Semiocast, a Paris-based social media research company. This number puts Russia currently in 20th place on Twitter’s gobal map, the …
As many as 270,000 GPS+GLONASS road navigation devices were sold in Russia last year, an almost three-fold increase from 2010, said Alexander Gurko, General Manager of NIS GLONASS, the Russian national provider of satellite navigation services, in an exchange with news agency RIA Novosti earlier this week. These figures could double in 2012, representing sales …
Interest in content delivery networks (CDNs) is growing amongst leading mobile operators in Russia. According to Russian publications AKTR and ComNews.ru, VimpelCom is currently looking for an equipment supplier for a CDN and expects to finalise a tender in the first half of this year. MTS is meanwhile using one operated by the company NGENIX but …
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Pay-TV penetration in Russia will almost double from 40% this year to 73% at the end of 2016, said Pavel Basov, the general director of the country’s leading DTH platform Tricolor TV. Speaking at Intercom 2011, a major industry event, Basov added that, by the end of 2016, cable and IPTV would account for 48% …
The Russian mobile content market could reach as much as $1.8 billion this year, according to a report from consulting company J’son & Partners quoted by news agency RIA Novosti. The figures includes ringback tones and other audio content for $766 million, mobile applications for smartphones for $355 million – up 106% from 2010 – …
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Russia has just overtaken Germany as the market with the highest number of unique visitors online in Europe, says comScore in its September Internet usage study released yesterday. The digital statistics company counted as many as 50.81 million users aged 15 and older in Russia, compared to 50.14 million in Germany, 42.35 in France and …
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Russia’s top Internet search portal Yandex, which outstrips Google on the domestic market with a 62% market share, has been ranked fifth on a global list of Internet search properties prepared by the US research firm comScore, reported news agency RIA Novosti.
Sipnet, a Russian VoIP service provider, reached a 52% share of the Russian VoIP market in 2010 in value, according to J’son & Partners, a telecom market research and financial consulting firm operating in Eastern Europe. Skype held second place in Russia with a 32% market share. The total market size for VoIP doubled since …
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