All Moscow buses, trolleybuses and trams will be equipped with free wireless Internet connection by the end of this year, news website M24.ru reported Wednesday, citing the city’s transportation authority Mosgortrans. Free Wi-Fi is currently available on 4,000 buses, trams and trolleybuses around the city. “The new service is gaining popularity among passengers. More than …
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Orthodox believers in the capital could soon get access to a special Wi-Fi network which will block inappropriate content, Moscow Patriarchate deputy speaker Roman Bogdasarov told Izvestia on Friday. The religious network will block access to online content deemed extremist, sectarian or pornographic, the report said. “Distorted historical facts,” would also be unavailable, the report said. …
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Earlier this month in San Jose, California, Maxima Telecom’s WiFi network in the Moscow subway was honored at the WBA Wi-Fi Industry Awards as the “Best Wi-Fi Deployment in a City or Public Area.” Task complexity and scale, the approach to monetization, service quality, and market impact were among the jury’s key criteria. Open to the whole industry, …
Trivon AG, the Switzerland-based company which does business through its subsidiaries under the Virgin Connect brand in Russia, has acquired 75% of Speedyline, a triple-play operator operating in the Moscow region. Trivon has also got the option for the further purchase of the remaining 25%. The deal was completed in December, but announced only last week. …
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The founders of MaxTelCom believe their technology can bring fiber-optic networks to every apartment and office, which will boost the quality and speed of the internet by dozens if not hundreds of times compared to what we are familiar with today. The company plans to make its debut on the international market in 2015. The …
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President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he would not restrict Internet access for Russians but Moscow must protect state domains against a surge of cyber attacks since the Ukraine crisis began. His remarks were intended to douse speculation that he plans a crackdown on use of the Internet, which he has called a “CIA project” used to organise …
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The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and international infrastructure partners will take part together in the financing of a Rostelecom project to eliminate digital inequality among Russian regions, the national telecom operator announced in late May. Total investment by the fund and its partners in the project could come to 67.5 billion rubles (about $1.9 …
Trivon AG, the Switzerland-based company which does business through its subsidiaries under the Virgin Connect brand in Russia, announced today that it has acquired 100% of MegaMax, one of the leading B2B broadband and telecom operators in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The MegaMax Group has developed its own …
There were slightly over one million LTE subscribers in Russia as of April 2013, Artyom Kuznetsov, a spokesman for Sweden’s Ericsson, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti last week. Earlier this year, the consultancy firm J’son & Partners estimated the number of LTE subscribers in Russia to have been “around 500,000 to 750,000” at …
Pavel Vinogradov, a Russian astronaut and member of the current International Space Station (ISS) crew, is the first Russian citizen to have paid taxes from orbit. In an exchange with news agency RIA Novosti last week, the Federal Tax Service of Russia said that to do so, Vinogradov had used its Taxpayer Personal Office for …
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Earlier this month, Yandex released a report which compiled data from various sources on Internet trends across the country. The report’s insights on Internet access in the regions are particularly interesting. The Internet audience continues to grow across the country, notes Yandex, but the rate of growth is slowing: from autumn 2011 through autumn 2012, …
In an exchange with East-West Digital News, a top official of Virgin Connect has denied the rumors circulating in the Russian press that Virgin is shutting down its mobile projects in Russia. Virgin’s founder and chairman Richard Branson was reported to be “definitely upset with Russia” and his local company had supposedly dropped plans to …
