MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, and RMS, an innovation company from the city of Nizhny Novgorod, are teaming up to fight forest fires in the Republic of Komi, which is located in Northwest Russia. As a part of this endeavor, MTS will use its mobile infrastructure, and RMS will use its Forest Patrol technology. …
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Earlier this week Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, announced the creation of its own “Venture Project Department.” The new department will focus on “search, screening, packaging, and test introduction of new products that are complementary to the firm’s core services.” Its primary goal is a substantial extension of Rostelecom’s product line by adding advanced services …
VimpelCom, a NYSE-listed telecom group with operations in Russia, Italy, and some other markets, is selling two of its sub-Saharan assets and considering purchasing a Pakistani mobile operator, Reuters reported earlier this week, citing knowledgeable banking sources. VimpelCom is believed to have sold its units in Burundi and the Central African Republic for $100 million …
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MegaFon, a leading Russian mobile operator, has announced a $130 million commitment to building and upgrading the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics’ telecommunications infrastructure. In an exchange last week with the Russian news agency 1Prime, Tigran Pogosyan, MegaFon’s deputy CEO for strategic ventures and director of the firm’s Sochi-2014 project, said that in addition to the …
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The nationwide deployment of ERA-GLONASS, a real-time satellite-based service for reporting and responding to traffic accidents, is entering the home stretch. By August 2013, 62 more Russian regions will be connected to the system’s infrastructure, Digit.ru reported earlier this week. As a result of a tender, GLONASS, a non-profit partnership which carries out the task …
Rusnano, a state-owned investment corporation focused on developing the Russian nanotechnology industry, has bought a 25% stake in the vendor of LTE equipment Wireless Technology Center (WTC) from Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the news agency Prime reported last week. Rusnano paid 330 million rubles (approximately $10 million) in the transaction which valued the joint venture …
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The Swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson will be hired by Russian mobile operator MTS to ship the necessary equipment and build an LTE network in the Volga, Ural, Siberian, and Southern federal districts, MTS announced in late June. Together, these four districts account for more than half of the country’s territory. While MTS has not disclosed the …
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In cooperation with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), VimpelCom – one of the world’s largest integrated telecommunications services operators – has launched LTE services in Moscow. VimpelCom LTE FDD services are now accessible within the central Sadovoye Ring area of the city, and are expected to be available throughout the Russian capital by the end of 2013.
VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator, has announced the next step in its endeavor to combine the mobile phone and the e-wallet. In an attempt to catch up with MTS and MegaFon, the other mobile players who comprise Russia’s “Big Three,” VimpelCom has pooled efforts with Alfa-Bank and MasterCard to test a Near Field Communication (NFC) …
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MTS, one of Russia’s leading mobile operators, has announced that it has launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) marketplace in partnership with NEC Corporation and started to sell the cloud office solution Microsoft Office 365 to its customers. In the SaaS marketplace “Legkiy ofis” (Russian for “Easy Office”) customers can access applications for business that are popular …
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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 …
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator and retailer, has made its way onto the Millward Brown Optimor list of the ten most valuable global telecom brands, reaching ninth place for 2013 with a brand value of $10.63 billion. This marks the first appearance for MTS in the elite group of sector leaders since its debut …
