Tele2 Russia, the Russian subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications group, launched “Cheaper Calls” last week, its first offer to Muscovites. The offer includes discounted calls from the Moscow region, from sea resorts and for calls from abroad.
Intel and Nizhny Novgorod University launched a training center for Intel software support this week. The center will broaden the scope of the university programs and ensure the certification of personnel, particularly in the areas of parallelism, high performance computing and mobile applications, Telecom Daily reported.
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, intends to purchase Bashkortostan’s telecom operator Ufanet, Russian business daily Kommersant reports. In the fall of 2010 Megafon wanted to buy Ufanet but in the last moment changed decision because of the price of $170-$180 million.
MTS, the leading Russian mobile operator based on number of subscribers (71.4 million in 2010), won a tender for GSM frequencies in the Penza region, the last remaining region it had yet to penetrate. Until now, MegaFon was alone in operating GSM networks in all of Russia’s 83 regions.
Megafon, a major Russian mobile operator, is considering purchasing St. Petersburg Internet provider Web Plus, Russian business daily Kommersant reports. The deal price has yet to be disclosed, but, according to experts, the price will be “symbolic”, since Web Plus is a loss-making firm with $4 million debt, the newspaper said. The seller is Telecominvest.
Moscow city authorities have budgeted up to 6.26 billion rubles (approx. $222 million) this year for the creation of an intelligent transportation system that improves traffic management.
National telecom operator Rostelecom is considering building a $110 million submarine communication line between St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad region, reports ComNews.ru, a site specializing in the Russian telecom and IT markets. The company might carry out the project with partner investors or on its own, ComNews.ru says.
A trade delegation of 25 leading European venture capital firms and top executives of major international technology corporations is visiting Russia this week to participate in the Second International Trade Delegation on Global Innovation Partnerships (GIP).
In its Freedom on the Net 2011 report, Freedom House, an American NGO that monitors freedom progress or restrictions around the world, assigned Russia the status of a “partly free” country. The report acknowledges that the Russian Internet has remained a “relatively uncensored platform for public debate and the expression of political opinions,” in contrast with more …
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Tele2 Russia emerged as the main winner in four regional tenders for GSM 1800 licenses in the Russian Far East. It has received from telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor the right to operate in the Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Koryak, and Chukotka regions and will now operate in 41 Russian regions out of 83.
Russia’s national telecommunications operator Rostelecom intends to develop 4G network in the Republic of Chuvashia, Kommersant reports. Investment in the project has yet to be disclosed but is estimated by experts at $40-$50 million. The network construction is scheduled to start this year.
First Satellite Company, Russia’s leading distributor and retailer of digital TV equipment, announced last week that it has been acquired by Dutch fund Enterprise Emerging Markets Fund B.V.
