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, …
MegaFon, a leading Russian mobile operator that went public a few months ago, plans to invest no less than 15 billion rubles (approximately $500 million) by the end of next year to deploy LTE networks. The company’s Sales and Service Director, Sergey Maistrenko, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that 4G has already been …
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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 …
Russian search giant Yandex is getting ready to build a data center in neighboring Finland, its third such facility outside Russia. The project is slated to break ground in August on an 8-hectare parcel 60km north of Helsinki that Yandex purchased from the Mäntsälä municipality for 1.5 million euros, Tatyana Komarova of Yandex’s press service …
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The roll out of 4G in Russia, which started last year in Novosibirsk, Moscow, and a few other privileged urban areas, is now reaching the country’s remote regions. Last week, MegaFon, a major Russia mobile operator, announced the launch of an LTE network throughout the Republic of South Ossetia. Located in the Caucasus region, South …
Russia’s leading mobile operators are considering jointly promoting the Near Field Communication (NFC) standards in Russia. To support the effort, the mobile giants envision establishing an alliance similar to such international NFC-focused industry unions as Oscar in the UK or ISIS in the U.S. In an interview with the Russian business daily Vedomosti, Alexander Popovsky, …
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Russian telecom operator TTK has announced the completion of an across-the-board buyout of 18 regional subsidiaries previously owned by Russian Railways, the national rail operator and TTK’s sole shareholder. To accomplish the task, TTK in December sold 1.069 billion rubles (about $36 million) worth of new shares to Russian Railways, which paid with its stakes …
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Russia outpaced the entire European Union in new fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in the second half of 2012, laying the foundation for a “head start” on deploying cutting-edge fiber-enabled technologies, an industry organization announced last week. In its latest study, published on February 20, the FTTH Council of Europe found that, between July and December of last …
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Latvian telecoms operator Lattelecom’s new Tier III certified Dattum Data Center, scheduled to open in April in Riga, sits astride the “Baltic Highway” high speed, low latency data link between Moscow and Frankfurt and plans to offer cloud computing and big data services to customers in the East and West, according to Lattelecom CTO Uldis …
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Parallels, a global provider of desktop virtualization and cloud enabling solutions founded by a Russian team in 1999, and the Novosibirsk State University are working on a joint project to develop a scalable software platform to host cloud applications for small and medium-sized businesses. The company is expected to invest more than 300 million rubles (about $10 …
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