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 …
Apple has registered a local company, Apple Rus, to supply its products directly to retail chains in Moscow and St. Petersburg as soon as 2013. According to data from SPARK-Interfax, Apple Rus is 99.5 percent owned by Apple Holding B.V. with the remaining 0.5 percent belonging to Irish company Apple Distribution. The company’s charter capital …
Infratel, provider of cloud telephony services for small businesses, announced yesterday it has secured $3 million in Series A funding from Moscow-based international funds Prostor Capital and Runa Capital. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The funds will be used to build out Infratel’s cloud telephony platform for small business and to strengthen the company’s presence globally.
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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Next month, Hyundai IT, a Chinese-based IT-focused subsidiary of Korea’s Hyundai Motors, is launching Russian sales of new Hyundai-branded tablets and has plans to localize the assembly of the tablets in Russia in the late fall, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported last week, citing a tête-à-tête with an IT Hyundai source. Hyundai is reportedly …
Hyundai to sell tablets in Russia; cars seen as facilitator Read More
If you would like to be woken up tomorrow morning by a friendly stranger’s call instead of a typical alarm, this application is for you. Social alarm clock Budist.ru enables you to set up the date and time you wish to be awoken, and a volunteer will call you at that exact time. The service is …
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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Knopka Zhizni (“Life Button”), a startup that has developed a mobile medical alert system for the elderly and the disabled, has raised “over 35 million rubles” (over $1 million) from Rintech.ru, a subsidiary of the diversified high tech group IT Co. Founded in November 2010 by MBA students of the Skolkovo Management School, the startup turned heads last …
Mobile medicine startup ‘Life Button’ raises $1 million Read More
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 …
While Moscow streets and sidewalks are crippled by haphazardly and illegally parked automobiles, an online city magazine, The-Village.ru, has launched a sophisticated e-campaign to identify and shame the offenders. Using a free Android application named ‘Parking Douche,’ smartphone users can take a picture of the culprit. The app then uses the user’s IP address, taps …
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