Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is interested in acquiring mobile operators in Russia’s neighboring countries, Alexander Provotorov, the company’s president, said yesterday during informal remarks given at the ITU Telecom World 2011 forum in Geneva. “There isn’t much left to buy in Russia, so we are looking at CIS countries,” news agency RIA Novosti quoted …
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MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, announced today it has acquired TVT, a leading provider of cable TV and fixed broadband services in the republic of Tatarstan. The purchase price amounted to $162.9 million, in addition to $17.1 million in net debt assumed by MTS. “The acquisition allows MTS to strengthen its leadership position in …
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Sipnet, a Russian VoIP service provider, reached a 52% share of the Russian VoIP market in 2010 in value, according to J’son & Partners, a telecom market research and financial consulting firm operating in Eastern Europe. Skype held second place in Russia with a 32% market share. The total market size for VoIP doubled since …
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The iPhone 4S, Apple’s newest smartphone, supports both GPS and GLONASS satellite based location systems, according to the tech specs page devoted to the phone updated yesterday on the Apple website. According to ifixit.com, whose authors have taken the smartphone apart, this dual capacity is provided by the Qualcomm MDM6610 baseband chip. Qualcomm has declined …
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Germany’s anti-monopoly authorities announced that Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T), a subsidiary of the Russian gas giant, requested their approval to be considered for an acquisition of Envacom. A German solar and wind energy operator, Envacom also offers mobile and Internet access services to more than 500,000 customers.
The Russian cable operator National Telecommunications (NTK) is expected to announce today the formation of a new media company that will develop TV channels. According to Russian business daily Kommersant, it will be made up of two daughter companies named Novyi Vybor (New Choice) and Artmedia Group and initially include seven channels in its portfolio.
Bidding has closed for the acquisition of Utel, the mobile wing of major fixed-line Ukrainian operator Ukrtelecom, Russian business daily Kommersant reported on Friday. The company’s market share amounts to just 2%, but it is the only Ukrainian mobile operator to hold a 3G UMTS license. The bidders are Russian operators VimpelCom and MTS, Turkcell subsidiary …
Russian national telecom operator Rostelecom has formally requested the approval of the Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS) to list 25 percent of its preferred shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), the company announced on Monday. Rostelecom intends to float 60.707 million Class A preferred shares in London, or about 25 percent of its outstanding …
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Geostar Navigation, a Moscow-based producer of navigation receivers for telematic services, will start mass production of a new GLONASS+GPS chipset as early as next spring. The announcement, reported by news agency RIA Novosti, was made at a press conference on Monday by NIS GLONASS General Manager Alexander Gurko. The low power chipset, named GeoC-3, will …
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Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, is to acquire Qwerty, a Moscow broadband Internet provider, Russian business daily Kommersant revealed earlier this week referring to unnamed sources. Qwerty is indirectly owned by Svyazinvest, Rostelecom’s main shareholder. Its value has been estimated at 1.2 to 1.4 billion rubles, or around $40 million, by Raiffeisenbank analyst Sergey Libin, Kommersant …
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NIS GLONASS General Manager Alexander Gurko announced at a press conference yesterday that his company could invest as much as $100 million dollars in acquisitions of Russian and foreign companies during this year and the next. These acquisitions will help develop new satellite-based navigation services for both the domestic and Indian consumer markets.
Russian corporate security and IT audit software company Elcomsoft released a new version of its Phone Password Breaker last week that has the ability to recover the passwords of Blackberry smartphones. Data protection on Blackberry devices was considered to be insuperable, but password recovery is possible using Elcomsoft’s technology if the “Device password” security option …
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