Mobile & Telecom

At 1.6% of net salary, Russia ranks 18th in Europe for broadband Internet expense

April 20, 2021

AddictiveTips.com, an online resource on apps, phone and the web, has calculated the cost of broadband Internet relative to users’ income across 37 European countries. Price data came from Cable.co.uk and salary data from Numbeo.  Russia ranks 18th as the average broadband expense in this country (€75.65 per year, €6.30 per month) accounts for 1.6% of Russians’ net salary (€4,497 per year, €375 per month).  …

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Russian investors put millions in smartphone service startups

April 2, 2021

A pool of individual investors has put 431 million rubles (around $5.6 million at the current exchange rate) in Beri Zaryad, a Moscow-based smartphone charging service. As reported by Forbes, the investors include Alexander Kabatov, Valery Ivanov, Bogdan Leonov and Alla Merman. The funding has been split as follows: 102 million rubles in capital injection …

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MTS launches Russia’s first pilot 5G network for consumers

March 8, 2021

Today, MTS is happy to announce the launch of Russia’s first multi-location pilot 5G network for end consumers. The new network covers 14 highly-trafficked public spaces in Moscow and will provide 5G connectivity at speeds of up to 1.5 Gbps to invited subscribers with compatible 5G smartphones. The limited launch is yet another milestone toward …

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Russia goes ahead with eSIM technology

February 1, 2021

Russian mobile phone operators are exploring the promising eSIM technology, but the government’s attempts to control and centralise the technology are likely to create hurdles. The communication ministry recently unveiled plans to create a storage system for user profiles of virtual mobile phone SIM cards based on eSIM technology, explaining it by the need to …

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Survey: Russian SMEs rapidly shifting to online advertising

January 20, 2021

As digitalization accelerates cross all sectors of the economy, many businesses are putting online marketing and digital advertising at the core of their strategy for customer acquisition and engagement. MTS, Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, carried out a survey of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Russia …

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Kaspersky Lab plans to supply mobile OS for enhanced protection

December 8, 2020

Smartphones with a Kaspersky-made operating system for enhanced security will appear next year, said Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky in an exchange with RIA Novosti.  His company partners with an unnamed Chinese smartphone maker. These smartphones with the Kaspersky operating system will have basic applications and its own browser. They are intended for specific types of use: …

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Russian government approves $2.6 billion 5G deployment plan until 2024

November 24, 2020

Last week a government commission “on digital development, the use of information technologies for improving the quality of life and the conditions of doing business” approved a 5G deployment roadmap for Russia. “The transition to 5G technologies is one of the priorities to digitalize the Russian economy, since is provides the ground for quality growth …

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Russia starts building $850 million high-speed arctic Internet

November 23, 2020

Russia has started building high-speed internet infrastructure in the Arctic to be used by large ports and oil and gas companies, the Federal Sea and River Transportation Agency (Rosmorrechflot) announced Wednesday last week. The trans-Arctic underwater fiber optic cable will stretch across 10,000 kilometers from the northwestern port of Murmansk to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. Rosmorrechflot partnered …

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Rostelecom to take control of waste management solution provider for $16.7 million

November 20, 2020

Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, is in the process of acquiring a 51% stake in Bolshaya Troika (Big 3), a provider of waste processing automation solutions. The transaction, which amounts to 1.275 billion rubles ($16.7 billion at the current exchange rate), will be completed in the first half of 2021 “after successful launch of a …

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Twice as expensive as Elon Musk’s Starlink, Russia’s satellite Internet project still awaits state funding

November 17, 2020

Russia has plans to develop its own cluster of at least 500 “next-generation, multi-spectrum satellites,” starting from next year. Dubbed ’Sfera,’ the program aims to provide high-speed Internet access and communications — particularly, along the Northern Sea Route — similarly to Starlink, a project developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.  Under plans, the first satellites could be …

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MegaFon invests in fast-growing challenger on Russian online video market

November 5, 2020

MegaFon, a major Russian mobile phone operator, is to acquire 33.8% of Digital Media Holding LLC (DMH), the parent company of the Start video service. The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but RBC heard from industry analysts that MegaFon’s stake might have been valued between 1.5 and 2.7 billion rubles (from $19 million to $34 …

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