The Italian government has sold three LTE licenses in the 800 Mhz frequency range for a total of €3.7 billion. Wind Telecomunicazioni, a fully owned subsidiary of VimpelCom, paid €977 million for the license and intends to bid for further frequencies in the 1,800, 2,000 and 2,600 Mhz ranges. The other successful license auction bidders …
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Nokia Siemens Networks and Micran, a Tomsk based Russian producer of microwave telecommunication and measurement equipment, finalized their joint venture agreements on Monday to locally produce LTE base stations. The share split in the JV will be 75%-25% in favor of Nokia Siemens Network.
Global satellite operator SES and Russian satellite operator Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) announced the formation of a strategic partnership last week to provide additional satellite capacity to serve the Russian market. Under the agreement, SES has repositioned its ASTRA 1F satellite from 51 degrees East to 55 degrees East, reported Telesputnik, a Russian publication covering …
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Rostelecom and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding last week for the joint design and production of end user broadband Internet connection devices. Based on Intel technology, the devices will be commercialized in Russia under the Rostelecom’s brand.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom, US software giant Microsoft, and top Russian enterprise software publisher 1S signed agreements to jointly develop cloud computing projects. Appointed in March by the Russian government to develop a national cloud computing platform by 2015, Rostelecom announced its intention to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $357 million) into …
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VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator and international telecom company, intends to abandon its project for the creation of a mobile digital television system on the DVB-H standard, Vedomosti reported last week. Among the main obstacles to developing the business have been regulatory complications – including licensing issues as well as equipment use authorizations – …
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TMT Investments announced last week that it has acquired a 10% stake in Unicell, a leading mobile application service and content provider in Israel, for 10.4 million shekels, or approximately $2.96 million. This transaction seems to mark the first investment of a Russian company in a mobile content provider outside the former USSR.
Two weeks after Foursquare made available a Russian version of its service – along with versions in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai – a powerful Russian media group, RBC, announced it has invested $1 million in Ogorod.ru, one of the two best-known local services inspired by the Foursquare concept.
Fiber-optic telecommunication provider Transtelecom (TTK) won 20 of 24 wireless Internet licenses last week in three tenders organized by Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor.
Russian national telecom operator Rostelecom has increased its stake in regional operator Orenburg GSM from 51% to 100%, news agency RIA Novosti reported last week. The remaining 49% stake was sold for $4 million by Samara based operator SMARTS.
Russia has invited China to participate in a project to build a satellite system for Ka band high-speed Internet access. The offer of cooperation was announced by Deputy Minister Naum Marder during a joint Russian-Chinese meeting on communications and information technologies held in Nizhny Novgorod in late August.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has been accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of involvement in the misappropriation of 300 million rubles, approximately $1 million, from the government funded Electronic Russia program.
