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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Germany’s anti-monopoly authorities announced that Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T), a subsidiary of the Russian gas giant, requested their approval to be considered for an acquisition of Envacom. A German solar and wind energy operator, Envacom also offers mobile and Internet access services to more than 500,000 customers.
The Russian cable operator National Telecommunications (NTK) is expected to announce today the formation of a new media company that will develop TV channels. According to Russian business daily Kommersant, it will be made up of two daughter companies named Novyi Vybor (New Choice) and Artmedia Group and initially include seven channels in its portfolio.
Bidding has closed for the acquisition of Utel, the mobile wing of major fixed-line Ukrainian operator Ukrtelecom, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Friday. The company’s market share amounts to just 2%, but it is the only Ukrainian mobile operator to hold a 3G UMTS license. The bidders are Russian operators VimpelCom and MTS, Turkcell subsidiary …
Russian national telecom operator Rostelecom has formally requested the approval of the Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS) to list 25 percent of its preferred shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the company announced on Monday. Rostelecom intends to float 60.707 million Class A preferred shares in London, or about 25 percent of its outstanding …
Rostelecom could hold SPO on London Stock Exchange before end 2011 Read More
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, is to acquire Qwerty, a Moscow broadband Internet provider, Russian business daily Kommersant revealed earlier this week referring to unnamed sources. Qwerty is indirectly owned by Svyazinvest, Rostelecom’s main shareholder. Its value has been estimated at 1.2 to 1.4 billion rubles, or around $40 million, by Raiffeisenbank analyst Sergey Libin, Kommersant …
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The Italian government has sold three LTE licenses in the 800 Mhz frequency range for a total of €3.7 billion. Wind Telecomunicazioni, a fully owned subsidiary of VimpelCom, paid €977 million for the license and intends to bid for further frequencies in the 1,800, 2,000 and 2,600 Mhz ranges. The other successful license auction bidders …
VimpelCom Italian subsidiary Wind acquires LTE license for €977 million Read More
Nokia Siemens Networks and Micran, a Tomsk based Russian producer of microwave telecommunication and measurement equipment, finalized their joint venture agreements on Monday to locally produce LTE base stations. The share split in the JV will be 75%-25% in favor of Nokia Siemens Network.
Rostelecom and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding last week for the joint design and production of end user broadband Internet connection devices. Based on Intel technology, the devices will be commercialized in Russia under the Rostelecom’s brand.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom, US software giant Microsoft, and top Russian enterprise software publisher 1S signed agreements to jointly develop cloud computing projects. Appointed in March by the Russian government to develop a national cloud computing platform by 2015, Rostelecom announced its intention to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $357 million) into …
Microsoft and 1S to develop cloud projects with Rostelecom Read More
VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator and international telecom company, intends to abandon its project for the creation of a mobile digital television system on the DVB-H standard, Vedomosti reported last week. Among the main obstacles to developing the business have been regulatory complications – including licensing issues as well as equipment use authorizations – …
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Fiber-optic telecommunication provider Transtelecom (TTK) won 20 of 24 wireless Internet licenses last week in three tenders organized by Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor.
