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Court Rejects VimpelCom's Appeal in Far East License Case
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MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Prime-Tass) -- The Federal Arbitration Court for the Moscow court district rejected Monday an appeal by Russia's second largest mobile operator VimpelCom in its dispute with regulators over licenses in Russia's Far East.
VimpelCom sought to challenge the latest decision by the Moscow Arbitration Court of Appeals, which ruled November 7 that the Federal Service for Communications Oversight, or Rossvyaznadzor, did not have to issue a mobile services license for the Far East Federal District to the company. That ruling reversed the Moscow Arbitration Court?s decision made on August 14 that the regulator must issue the license to VimpelCom within 10 days.
In a separate litigation, earlier this year VimpelCom filed two appeals with the Moscow Arbitration Court against the State Radio Frequency Commission, which failed to free up frequency for commercial operations in the federal district and either rejected or ignored the company?s 35 applications to do so.
The court rejected the first appeal on August 21 but upheld the second one on September 19 and ruled that the commission must consider VimpelCom?s application within 14 days. In this litigation, the regulator unsuccessfully challenged the ruling in the Moscow Arbitration Court of Appeals, which on November 28 also sided with VimpelCom.
It was not immediately clear how the two conflicting court rulings would affect's the status of VimpelCom's applications.
VimpelCom, which operates under its Beeline brand name, is seeking to expand its operations to all 13 regions of the Far East Federal District. Currently, the company operates in only four regions of the federal district, which has a population of about 6 million people.
VimpelCom?s key rivals, mobile operators MTS and MegaFon, have licenses to operate in all the regions of the district. MegaFon is the only operator that has licenses covering the entire territory of Russia.
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Tags: [megafon] [mts] [moscow] [vimpelcom] [radio frequency]
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