Soyuz-Telecom, a WiMAX operator little known until now, announced last month the extension of its coverage to Vsevolozhsk, a city in the St. Petersburg region. The company, founded in 2007, now covers 17 small cities across the country. It has not, however, disclosed its number of subscribers. Russian entrepreneur Theophan Bondarenko owns a majority stake …
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, opened its first digital signature center yesterday, reports CNews.ru, a website covering IT and telecommunications issues. Rostelecom offers USB keys designed to facilitate access to e-government services. The keys cost 600 rubles—a little more than $20.
MTS, one of Russia’s leading mobile operators, announced the launch of a cloud-based distribution system for multimedia content — the first such experiment in Russia and CIS countries. The announcement was made last week at Sviaz-Expocomm, a major international event of the telecommunications industry held each year in Moscow.
Moscow-based startup incubator Fast Lane Ventures has just launched Jizo.ru, a metasearch engine for airline tickets. Jizo.ru aggregates ticket information “from a myriad of sources,” says the company, including the booking systems of leading travel agencies, airlines and booking sites. Its simplified, uncluttered interface allows users to select airline tickets by two main criteria: date …
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Russian Venture Company (RVC), a state-owned fund of funds, participated indirectly in a $20 million round of financing, announced last week, for Clearspring Technologies, a US-based online data giant. This fourth round brings Clearspring’s total funding to $58 million since its creation in 2004. Clearspring is the maker of the AddThis button that facilitates content …
The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC), a state-owned satellite communications operator, and Eutelsat, the leading European satellite operator, announced last week their plans to jointly launch a new direct-to-home (DTH) satellite to 36° East in 2015.
Tele2 Russia, the Russian subsidiary of the Swedish-based European telecommunications group, has offered to acquire a 97% stake in regional operator SMARTS for $390 million, including $100 million to cover debt. Based in Samara, SMARTS is a Russian mobile operator with a regional presence that would ideally compliment that of Tele2 Russia, which currently operates …
Russia could soon have a representative on the board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international U.S.-based domain-name authority. The announcement was made yesterday at the second Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) in Moscow. Marina Nikerova, chairwoman of Russia’s national domain coordination center, has applied to join ICANN’s board. …
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Five Russian companies are among the 200 finalists of Red Herring’s European startup contest held in Amsterdam. This group of 200 companies is the short list for the Top 100 Europe award. The Red Herring editorial team found them to be “the most innovative” and “exciting” after evaluating them on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, …
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Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, together with Russian Radio Broadcasting Network (RRBN) signed a cooperation agreement to organize the terrestrial transmission of digital content to the RRBN transmitters across the country, thus enabling the broadcasting of eight federal TV channels (Channel One, Channel Two Russia, Russia-24, Channel 5 – St. Petersburg, Sport, Russia-K, NTV, and …
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The BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands, an annual ranking of brand value developed by Millward Brown Optimor with The Financial Times, has recognized MTS as Russia’s top brand and valued it at $10.9 billion. Not only is MTS – short for Mobile Telesystems – Russia’s leading mobile operator based on number of subscribers …
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Digital TV broadcasting has been launched in Sakhalin region in testing mode, regional officials report. The digital TV stations have been installed in 12 out of 19 municipal districts in the region. In the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and some other municipalities test broadcasting is delayed due to technical difficulties in equipment installation.
