FAS, the Russian anti-monopoly authority, rejected the bids of MTS and MegaFon, two leading Russian mobile operators, to acquire New Telephone Company (NTC), a major mobile, fixed and IP telephony and internet operator based in Vladivostok. As a consequence, VimpelCom, another leading Russian operator, is the only bidder left in the running.
Russian telecommunication regulator Roskomnadzor has announced an open tender for the development and delivery of a software and hardware system that monitors electronic publications of online media.
The Russian Supreme Arbitration Court settled the dispute between leading Russian television channel RTR and social network Vkontakte on the liability of the social network for the transfer and use of unlicensed content on the site. The court ruled that Vkontakte is not responsible for its users’ copyright violations.
Russian telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor announced last Friday changes in the conditions of four tenders to allocate GSM frequencies, to be held in April.
Representatives of the mobile operators involved in the discussions with the State Radio Frequency Commission (SRFC), speaking under conditions of anonymity to Vedomosti, reported that the creation of the consortium is being delayed and the July 1 deadline for completing the investigations on frequency conversion is unlikely to be met.
Igor Shchegolev, the Russian minister of Communications and Mass Media, announced that future tenders for mobile frequencies will include stipulations obligating operators to deploy their networks in regions with low population density.
In an effort to combat child pornography and extremism on Russia’s Internet, several organizations in Russia have formed the non-commercial partnership Safe Internet League. The league aims to conduct educational campaigns and establish practical measures for preventing and detecting harmful content on the Web. It can be joined by any commercial or non-governmental organizations, as …
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunication operator, has expanded 16-fold the capacity of its backbone network in the international section between Kaliningrad and Lithuania – from 2.5 Gb/s to 40 Gb/s with the possibility of further expansion. Source: CNews.ru
The Russian Interior ministry announced that a criminal case has been opened against a 26 year-old Muscovite for having “replicated and disseminated” 18 copyrighted music recordings from his personal page on Vkontakte.ru. This followed a complaint from Nikitin, the Russian music company that owns the rights.
The Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has finally made a move on the deployment of LTE technology, a widely accepted pre-4G mobile network standard. A consortium composed of the so-called “big three” leading national mobile operators, MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon, in cooperation with state fixed-telephony operator Rostelecom, has been requested to investigate all …
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Executive summary: In May 2010, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the New Economic School, the Russian Venture Company, and the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies conducted a survey of 100 large companies operating in Russia in order to assess the level of innovation among large corporations. The survey was also designed to explore the key factors which determine the level …
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