Prominent Russian-American businessman Leonard Blavatnik has invested $9.5 million in Get Taxi, an Israeli-based mobile taxi-booking company, together with Get Taxi’s founders, which include Shahar Smirin, a former executive at Comverse in Russia.
Roscosmos Deputy head Anatoly Shilov announced yesterday significant improvement in Glonass accuracy. “Today, the system’s precision is to 6 meters, compared to 7 meters for GPS. In the next one or two years we must achieve an accuracy of 2 to 3 meters.” The statement was made at an international forum on satellite navigation held in …
During a visit to New Delhi last week, a top-level delegation of NIS GLONASS, Russia’s national provider of satellite-based navigation services, exchanged opinions with DIMTS, an urban transport and infrastructure services company backed by the Delhi government, about implementing intelligent transportation systems in Russian and Indian cities as well as about furthering commercial development. The …
Fiber-optic communication provider TTK will launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) to serve its main shareholder, the state owned Russian railways (RZD). By using its backbone network for mobile data traffic, TTK intends to get discounts from mobile operators. The project is being discussed with the three leading Russian mobile operators: MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon.
Russian satellite operator Rusat has agreed to provide Panasonic Avionics with a satellite broadband link. Panasonic will use the satellite band to provide services in the aircraft of international carriers crossing Russia.
