Mobile & Telecom

Rostelecom to breathe new life into national search engine project

April 5, 2013

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is said to be working on a new search engine, CNews.ru reports. According to the publication’s sources in one of the Russian Internet companies, the national search portal has been christened Sputnik, with the corresponding domain already registered to Rostelecom’s subsidiary RTCOMM. The Internet search market in Russia is dominated …

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From nationwide plans to local reality: How GLONASS deployment is gridlocked in bureaucracy

November 19, 2014

Russia’s central government has been the main promoter of the satellite-based GLONASS geolocation technology across the country, but local realities sometimes contradict Moscow’s spectacular nationwide plans. Transportation companies operating in Saratov, in the Lower Volga area, came across this duality recently when attempting the introduction of ERA-GLONASS, a real-time satellite-based service for reporting and responding …

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Sweden’s Tele2 yields Russian subsidiary to VTB, Russia’s Alfa Group puts $4 billion in counter offer

March 29, 2013

In what could be the beginning of an international imbroglio, the Swedish telecom group Tele2 AB announced Wednesday that VTB Group, a leading state-owned Russian bank, would acquire its subsidiary Tele2 Russia, for $3.55 billion in cash and debt. With 2G licenses to operate in 43 regions, Tele2 Russia stands as the country’s 4th largest …

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Samsung’s smartphones and Apple’s tablets named “best gadgets of the year”

November 19, 2014

Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet group, announced this past Friday the winners of its annual Best Gadget of the Year Award. The award event was hosted by Hi-Tech Mail.Ru, the group’s media project which collected users’ opinions on new tech solutions across digital sectors. With more than 2.3 million votes taken into account – …

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Japan says konichiwa to Russian Do-Ra mobile dosimeter-radiometer

March 26, 2013

Intersoft Eurasia, a Moscow-based startup developing a smartphone-compatible dosimeter-radiometer, has announced new partnerships with two Japanese companies, Honda Electronics and Nisso Boeki, for manufacturing and marketing its product. The partners are expected to jointly set up shop and start selling the dosimeter-radiometer, christened Do-Ra, in Japan and across the globe.

Russia’s mobile game market set to double in 4 years while local publishers expand globally

March 25, 2013

According to the Moscow-based consultancy J’son & Partners, the mobile game market in Russia will grow from $392 million in 2012 to an estimated $707 million in 2016. The number of mobile game players is also expected to increase from 38.6 million at the end of 2012 to 65.1 million in 2016. This is almost …

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Mobile internet and VAS to expand in Russia in 2013-2014

March 25, 2013

Value added and multimedia services continue to develop in Russia. Telecom carriers seek for opportunities to offer bundles, including pay TV and mobile internet, which allow for both increase ARPU and reduce churn. Among other important segments of the mobile VAS and multimedia market last year were SMS payments and ringback tones, which will be …

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MegaFon launches LTE in South Ossetia

March 21, 2013

The roll out of 4G in Russia, which started last year in Novosibirsk, Moscow, and a few other privileged urban areas, is now reaching the country’s remote regions. Last week, MegaFon, a major Russia mobile operator, announced the launch of an LTE network throughout the Republic of South Ossetia. Located in the Caucasus region, South …

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Stocks of Yandex, MegaFon and Rusnano are changing hands

March 20, 2013

The ownership of three major Russian tech companies – the search giant Yandex, the state-owned nanotechnology corporation Rusnano, and the mobile operator Megafon – is being affected by significant changes. Yandex, which raised $1.3 billion in its IPO back in May 2011, announced yesterday the closing of a secondary public offering of Class A ordinary …

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Yandex launches Android app store, pursues ambitious mobile strategy

March 13, 2013

Continuing its expansion into the realm of mobile, Russia’s search giant Yandex officially unveiled its application store for Android-powered devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. Yandex.Store already has more than 50,000 paid and free apps and is available in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, and Turkish languages.

Undeterred by debt, VimpelCom eyes “interesting opportunity” in Canada

November 19, 2014

VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator, is considering a North American expansion amid negative market sentiments over the company’s already weighty debt level. VimpelCom CEO Jo Lunder told Bloomberg earlier this year that his company “has an interesting opportunity in Canada” and may consider organic growth or acquisitions there. He declined to elaborate, however, leaving …

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Russia’s Sistema wins key mobile licenses in India

March 11, 2013

Sistema, a large publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, announced yesterday that the its Indian telecom subsidiary, Sistema Shyam Teleservices Limited (SSTL) has won a spectrum in the 800 Mhz band in 8 circles following its participation in a licence auction. The circles won by SSTL include Delhi, Kolkata, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil …

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