Mobile & Telecom

LTE tenders to take place in one month, Sochi to get LTE for 2014 Winter Olympics

March 28, 2012

Since Scartel, a leading Russian WiMax provider operating under the Yota brand, launched Russia’s first LTE network in Novosibirsk in January, new initiatives have confirmed that 4G is on its way towards covering large portions of the Russian Federation. Roskomnadzor, the state telecom regulator, announced yesterday that the tenders to allocate the remaining LTE frequencies …

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Rostelecom and Tsentralnyi Telegraf to launch MVNOs in the Moscow region

March 22, 2012

Tsentralnyi Telegraf will launch a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) next summer, the company’s commercial director Kirill Karasev announced yesterday at an industry conference. Established in 1852 as Moscow’s very first telegraph station, today Tsentralnyi Telegraf is a provider of ISP, IPTV, VPN, and other telecommunication services in Moscow and its surroundings. The new MVNO …

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Rostelecom building giant data center in Moscow to run government cloud platform

March 21, 2012

Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, has launched the construction of a mega data center, located on the premises of the Serp i Molot factory in Moscow. The center’s storage capacity has not been disclosed, but the server rooms will occupy some 10 thousand square meters – twice as much as Sberbank’s existing mega data …

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Orion Express satellite concern

March 19, 2012

The Russian DTH platform Orion Express faces a major obstacle in its expansion plans. According to Vedomosti, a decision on whether the platform can use frequencies on the Horizons 2 satellite, which is owned by Intelsat, has been postponed until a meeting of the General Radio Frequency Centre (GFRC), called at the initiative of the …

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GLONASS adopted by US agencies: One eye is good, but two are better

March 19, 2012

GLONASS, the Russian satellite positioning system launched in 1982 in response to America’s GPS, has navigated into its rival’s home territory. The U.S. Geological Survey, a government entity whose tasks include early volcanic threat detection, announced plans last week to purchase dual GLONASS+GPS compatible hardware to improve its monitoring of America’s 160 active volcanoes and …

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Mobile operator MTS could sell part of its online video business

March 15, 2012

The Russian mobile operator MTS is considering selling a stake of its online paid video site Omlet.ru, the operator’s VP of Marketing Vasily Latsanich announced earlier this week at a press conference. “A content business should be separated from a mobile operator’s business, and we are not the only ones on the market to believe so,” …

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Rostelecom consolidates ownership of cable operator NTK

March 7, 2012

Last week, Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, announced two acquisitions almost simultaneously, reflecting its ambitions to integrate a variety of networks and services across Russia and assert itself as a universal operator. The company announced it consolidated its ownership of NTK, a leading cable operator, of which it had already bought a 71.8% stake …

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SMS spammers could face five years in prison

March 6, 2012

SMS spam should be considered a medium-gravity crime, which implies punishment of up to five years in prison, suggested participants at a meeting last week which brought together Russian regulation and surveillance agencies as well as leading mobile operators. Telecom regulator Roskomnadzor also suggested changing the rules for providing telecommunication services and content.

The Russian smartphone market in 2011

March 6, 2012

Russia saw an impressive growth of the smartphone market in 2011, reveals an IDC report presented in late February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The unit share of smartphones reached 19% of the total market, up from 5% in 2010. While Nokia remained the market leader, its share its share fell from 58% to just 48% …

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From St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, 180,000 webcams monitored Russia’s presidential election

March 5, 2012

In an unprecedented experiment to ensure voting transparency, most of Russia’s 94,300 polling stations were equipped with webcams offering a live broadcast of yesterday’s voting. The broadcast, which started at midnight, Moscow time, on election day, ended after all vote counting operations were completed. It was followed by up to 400,000 simultaneous Internet users on a …

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Russian telecom tower operator secures $100 million investment

March 5, 2012

Russian Towers, a Russian company that owns, operates, and leases telecommunication towers, secured a $100 million investment last week from a consortium of investors led by the Macquarie-Renaissance Infrastructure Fund (MRIF), which committed itself to invest half of the total. Another $20 million is coming from emerging market investor ADM Capital, while founding  shareholders UFG …

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GLONASS supported smartphones fail to get traction on the Russian market

March 1, 2012

Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE has stopped producing smartphones that support both GLONASS and GPS, said Ding Haomin, ZTE’s representative in Russia, in an exchange with CNews.ru, an online publication covering the Russian telecom and IT markets. Haomin explained the decision was motivated by “the absence of demand” for such devices.

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