Mobile & Telecom

Hazardous freight transportation to be controlled using GLONASS

March 2, 2017

M2M Telematics, the leading Russian vehicle telematics solution provider, announced last week it has developed a distant control and surveillance system for hazardous freight transportation using GLONASS, the Russian satellite navigation system. The hazardous transportation solution, which had been ordered by the Federal Transport Supervision Service (FTSS) of the Ministry of Transport, was developed in …

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MTS and Rostelecom to share network infrastructure

February 23, 2012

MTS, a major Russian mobile operator, and Rostelecom, the national telecom operator, have agreed to share part of their network infrastructure, including towers (antenna masts) and optical fiber cables, reported Russian business daily Vedomosti. Rostelecom has the largest network infrastructure in Russia, extending about 500,000 km, or 310,685 miles, covering even remote and underdeveloped territories …

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Transtelecom acquires regional Internet provider Electro-Com

February 23, 2012

Transtelecom, or TTK, has purchased 100% of the shares of Electro-Com, an Internet provider working under the Spark brand, Telecom Daily reported earlier this week. The deal will reinforce TTK’s positions in the broadband Internet access markets of Rostov-on-Don, Ryazan, Taganrog, Volgodonsk, and Kaluga. It will also introduce TTK to the Tula, Krasnodar, Bryansk and …

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Yota to offer voice services countrywide

February 22, 2012

Scartel, the Russian WiMAX provider operating under the Yota brand, plans to offer voice services in the near future as a logical consequence of its switch to LTE. The company has just obtained a license for such services and another one to operate as an MVNO. Scartel is in discussions with Megafon, a major mobile operator, …

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GlobeCast Hot Bird 8 satellite to broadcast CTC-International

February 20, 2012

CTC Media, a leading Russian media company listed on the NASDAQ, announced last week an agreement with GlobeCast to broadcast the international Russian-language version of CTC, “CTC-International,” via GlobeCast’s Hot Bird 8 satellite. A subsidiary of France Telecom, GlobeCast is a global provider of content management and worldwide transmission services for professional broadcast delivery. Hot …

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Tele2 Russia’s revenue reached $1.7 billion in 2011

February 10, 2012

Tele2 Russia, a subsidiary of the Swedish-based European telecom group, announced 21% annual growth of its operating revenue over the course of 2011, to 51.9 billion roubles, or approximately $1.7 billion. The company’s EBITDA reached 20.3 billion roubles, or $676 million, up 36% from the previous year. In March, the company raised $1.06 billion in …

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Transtelecom to launch cable TV next spring

February 9, 2012

Fiber-optic telecommunication provider Transtelecom (TTK) is preparing to launch  cable TV services next spring in several Russian regions. “We don’t focus on one technology exclusively,” news agency RIA Novosti quoted TTK President Artem Kudryavtsev as saying. “Depending on  the local situation in each region, we may use analog cable TV as well as the digital …

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Russian Twitter users tripled in one year

February 6, 2012

A total of 4.5 million Twitter accounts had been created Russian users as of January 1, 2012 – a three-fold increase over the 1.5 million recorded a year earlier – according to a recent study by Semiocast, a Paris-based social media research company. This number puts Russia currently in 20th place on Twitter’s gobal map, the …

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Rostelecom acquires majority stake in Armenian Internet and data provider GNC-ALFA

February 3, 2012

Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom yesterday announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Teleset Networks, has invested 682 million rubles ($22.5 million) to take a 75% minus one share stake in GNC-ALFA, the largest independent Internet and data provider in Armenia. “This is the first acquisition outside of Russia that we have concluded as part of our …

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Eurosport inks Russian mobile TV deal

February 2, 2012

Eurosport has extended its partnership with MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, thereby providing the latter’s mobile TV subscribers with access to Eurosport and Eurosport 2. In a statement, MTS says it has one of the most developed 3G networks in Russia, covering around 80% of the population and that the number of users of …

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