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Russian Government May Buy Svyazinvest Stake
Russia's telecoms market faces a shake-up after further details emerged that could result in conglomerate, Sistema swapping a quarter of landline firm, Svyazinvest and half of CDMA operator, SkyLink for a 23% stake in Moscow landline operator, Moscow City Telephone Company (MGTS) along with the cancellation of debts of around US$826 million owed to Sberbank. more
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Svyazinvest Planning to Merge Russian Mobile Networks
Russia's Communications and Press Minister Igor Shchyogolev has confirmed that Svyazinvest is planning to merge its separate mobile network operator subsidiaries into a single company. The move is expected to make it easier for the state-controlled company to compete with the three main private networks who dominate the market. more
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Europe Telecom Giants Call the Shots Again as M&A Picks Up
As the global financial crisis nears its one-year anniversary, Europe's top telecom operators are rediscovering an appetite for deals and preparing to pounce on vulnerable rivals, armed with solid balance sheets and needled by a rising threat from newcomers like Google and Apple. more
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FOCUS: Russian operators find expansion success in CIS
MOSCOW, July 24 (Prime-Tass) -- Nearly five years have passed since Russian mobile operators began to expand beyond the domestic market and operators have made great strides in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In the meantime they all failed to have made any non-CIS acquisitions. more
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IN DEPTH: Having unveiled new logo, MTS may too late to catch up with rivals"
MOSCOW, May 15 (Prime-Tass) -- In the last few weeks Muscovites could see billboards in the streets with an unfamiliar logo - a white egg inside a red square. No company name was put on the billboards. Market participants speculated that it was probably a new logo for Russia?s largest mobile operator MTS and their predictions proved to be true last Wednesday, when AFK Sistema, the parent company, presented new joint brand logos for all its telecommunications subsidiaries. more
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