Mobile & Telecom

Rostelecom, Sitronics and Mastercard issue first bank card with e-government access

December 19, 2011

Russia’s national telecommunication operator Rostelecom and Bank Saint Petersburg announced last Thursday the issue of their first co-branded bank cards with microchips containing the electronic signature of the cardholder. Certified by the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the cards are being produced in partnership with Mastercard and Sitronics, the largest producer of microelectronic devices in the …

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Megafon and Visa present new virtual payment card

December 19, 2011

Major Russian mobile operator Megafon and global payment card giant Visa presented the Megafon-Visa Online Card last week. Megafon subscribers need only send an SMS request to receive the virtual card, which allows them to pay for any goods or services offered online using the money available on their mobile account.

New shareholders to invest $100 million in Yota Del Peru

December 19, 2011

Russia’s leading WiMax provider Scartel, working under the Yota brand, has sold 100% of its stake in Yota Del Peru, a subsidiary it created in 2010 with Multinet Group, a discrete Russian company operating 4G networks in African and Asian countries, among other telecom activities. The acquiring parties included ICT Group, one of the largest …

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Siberian game publisher Questli attracts Swiss and German money

December 17, 2011

Questli, a startup from Novosibirsk, Siberia, has raised an undisclosed amount from Zurich-based venture capital firm Redalpine and individual investors from Switzerland and Germany, industry blogger Yakov Sadchikov reported yesterday. Questli’s award-winning treasure hunting games combine crowd-sourced quests, location-based services and couponing. Founded by Danila Kozyatnikov in April 2011, the startup initially received CHF 200,000, …

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Glonass completing global coverage, Russian government to invest $11 billion in the system by 2020

December 15, 2011

Launched 35 years ago as an alternative to the American GPS and other international navigation systems, Russia’s national radio-based satellite navigation system Glonass is now completing its satellite constellation, bumping the number of operational satellites up to 24 in order to offer continuous coverage anywhere in the world, officials from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) …

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Megafon acquires Internet and cable TV provider in Western Siberia

December 13, 2011

MegaFon, a major Russian mobile operator, made a further step last Friday towards business diversification and regional expansion by acquiring Yugratel, a broadband Internet and cable TV provider operating in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District of Western Siberia. Yugratel was sold through an auction sale by the local authorities for 2.4 billion rubles, or approximately $76 …

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Nokia integrates Mail.ru services in dedicated mobile web browser

December 7, 2011

Mail.ru Group and Nokia announced yesterday the launch of a special version of Nokia’s web browser for Nokia Series 40 mobile phones. These mid-tier feature phones, which inlude the Nokia 2700, X2-00, 5130, C3-00, 6700, 6303 and 21 other models, enjoy strong popularity in Russia, notes Telecom Daily, a Russian online publication covering telecom and …

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MegaFon revives OTT project

December 2, 2011

The Russian mobile operator MegaFon has revived an OTT TV project that had previously been frozen earlier this year. The news was given by Denis Nochevnov, the company’s director of new technologies and services, and quoted by AKTR and Digit.ru. Work on the OTT project, which also involved the software company Netris, began in 2010 …

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GlobeCast adds satellite capacity in Russia and the CIS countries with Yamal-201

December 1, 2011

Paris, December 1st, 2011 – GlobeCast announces today the expansion of its satellite capacity overRussia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) with a new Ku-band platform on the Yamal-201 satellite. Offering significant opportunities to penetrate the cable market throughout the CIS, GlobeCast’s capacity provides full coverage of this area to regional and international channels.

Beeline TV reaches 500,000 subscribers

December 1, 2011

The Russian IPTV platform Beeline TV, which is owned by leading mobile operator Vimpelcom, now has over 500,000 subscribers. Launched in Moscow in May 2009 and currently present in 34 large Russian cities, its take up has grown five-fold in less than a year. Beeline TV has proved to be a driver for the company’s …

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Russian mobile content market to reach $1.8 billion in 2011, smartphone apps on the rise

November 30, 2011

The Russian mobile content market could reach as much as $1.8 billion this year, according to a report from consulting company J’son & Partners quoted by news agency RIA Novosti. The figures includes ringback tones and other audio content for $766 million, mobile applications for smartphones for $355 million – up 106% from 2010 – …

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