Ambiq Tech St. Petersburg, the Russian branch of American company Ambiq Technologies, yesterday unveiled a mobile phone add-on for Russian customers. Based on Near Field Communication technology, a short-range wireless connectivity standard, the insert allows customers to use their phone as a discount card or a payment instrument linked to their bank account.
According to analysts at Alfa-Bank, Euroset’s are set to grow, on average, by 26.1% annually until 2015, reaching an estimated 197.4 billion rubles (approximately $7 billion). EBITDA should hit 21.9 billion rubles ($776 million) by 2015, and net profit should rise to 15.02 billion rubles ($532 million). Euroset, Russia’s leading mobile retailer, announced last week …
Navigation Information Systems (NIS), Russia’s provider of national navigation services, signed an agreement last week with Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development aimed at finding foreign partners to develop GLONASS-supported services.
Svyaznoy, Russia’s second leading mobile retailer, may go public in Q2 2012, according to Denis Lyudkovsky, the company’s general manager. The announcement was made at a press conference yesterday. The final decision will depend, among other factors, on the success of the impending IPO of Euroset, the market leader.
Russian business daily RBC Daily reported yesterday, quoting unnamed sources, that Rostelecom could postpone a secondary public offering (SPO) on the London Stock Exchange initially planned for April or May.
FAS, the Russian anti-monopoly authority, rejected the bids of MTS and MegaFon, two leading Russian mobile operators, to acquire New Telephone Company (NTC), a major mobile, fixed and IP telephony and internet operator based in Vladivostok. As a consequence, VimpelCom, another leading Russian operator, is the only bidder left in the running.
Euroset, Russia’s leading mobile and media device retailer, announced yesterday it would proceed with an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. The offering could raise more than $1 billion, putting the desired valuation of the chain at $4 billion, reports Reuters from unnamed sources.
WiMax broadband Internet provider Scartel, working under Yota brand, intends to invest $17.5 million in development of 4G mobile network in Perm region, regional officials report.
The EBITDA of Euroset, Russia’s leading mobile retailer, reached 8.37 billion rubles (approx. $279 million) in 2010, up 88% from 2009. During the same period, the company’s net profit grew almost fivefold (+385%), to 5.58 billion rubles, while its revenues increased by just 12.2%, reaching 61.91 billion rubles (approx. $2 billion).
Amsterdam and New York – VimpelCom Ltd. announced today that the Company’s shareholders approved all of the items on the agenda at today’s Special General Meeting, paving the way to complete the combination of VimpelCom and Wind Telecom S.p.A.
After compiling a list of the “Top 50 Most Innovative Companies” worldwide last month, which included Yandex and Kaspersky Lab, U.S. business magazine Fast Company has now issued a ranking of the “Ten Most Innovative Companies in Russia.”
Explay, a leading Russian manufacturer of car navigators, announced last week its launch of a navigator that supports the two satellite-based location systems, GPS and GLONASS.
