On Monday, the Tashkent City Court in Uzbekistan handed down a decision ordering the forfeiture of assets held by a local mobile service operator in a controversial ruling that may cause the operator’s owner, Russia’s MTS, to charge off a loss of up to $1 billion, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported. The Court’s …
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Megafon, a leading Russian mobile operator, has acquired Felebior Holdings Ltd, the company which owns VAS Media, a Moscow-based mobile content publisher and provider of payment and geolocation solutions. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The asset will be integrated with Megalabs, an existing subsidiary of Megafon that develops, in particular, mobile …
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BT announced yesterday a new network interconnection agreement with Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator. “The agreement will significantly improve BT’s ability to serve its corporate customers across all regions of Russia with its BT Connect portfolio of intelligent network services,” the British operator stated.
British entrepreneur Richard Branson is once again planning to launch his Virgin Mobile business in Russia. The announcement of a possible entrance for Virgin Mobile into the Russian market was made at the opening of the operator’s division in Poland. A source at one of Russia’s telecommunications operators anonymously disclosed that Virgin Mobile is intending …
MTS, a major Russian mobile operator, has made digital TV available in 150 cities across Russia. It is expected that, due to the new digital platforms, the number of TV channels including HD will grow by more than 60%, and diverse interactive services will be launched. At the moment, MTS Digital TV platform provides 118 …
The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) announced the results of the long-awaited tender to allocate four natiowide LTE frequencies, which took place last week. The results brought no surprises, with the “Big Three” Russian mobile operators MTS, Megafon and Vimpelcom, as well as the national …
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Having received the green light from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) last month, Megafon, a leading Russian mobile operator, and Scartel, the WiMAX provider switching to LTE and operating under the Yota brand, are to become part of the same holding. The news, which Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday from a source close to both …
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Alcatel-Lucent, a Paris-headquartered global leader in mobile, fixed, IP and Optics technologies, announced last week an expansion of its partnership with Rostechnologii, a large, state-owned Russian high-tech corporation much involved in the defense industry. The two companies have signed a “research and development pact” intended to “accelerate the deployment of advanced LTE services, new network …
Russia’s largest telecoms are launching a new multiscreen service later this year, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported last week. The project is expected to enable users to access their favorite TV channels from a TV set, a desktop PC or a mobile gadget. The leader in this race for broader markets is Rostelecom, which …
MTS, a leading mobile operator and telecom provider in Russia and the CIS, is considering acquisition opportunities among European assets that have suffered in the crisis, said MTS investor relations officer Josh Tulgan in an exchange with Bloomberg yesterday. “You can characterize some assets in Europe as borderline distressed. Obviously, we look at opportunities,” though …
Russia’s MTS will make digital TV services available across its entire network on July 1. Quoted in Vedomosti, Dimtri Bagdasaryan, director of the company’s fixed line and TV business, said that MTS expects to have 500,000 digital subscribers by the end of 2012 – it served a total of 2.99 million homes at the beginning …
Scartel, the leading Russian WiMAX and LTE operator operating under the Yota brand, stopped operations in Bielorussia yesterday, just six months after it launch in this country of almost 10 million inhabitants. Scartel had deployed 38 LTE base stations deployed in Minsk, the capital, and Grodno, a major city.
