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Articles tagged with: Megafon and Sistema
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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MTS Confirms Interest in Taking Stake in Russian Mobile Phone Retailer
Russia's MTS has confirmed that it is interested in buying a minority stake
in the country's largest mobile retailer, Euroset. The retailer was raided by
police on two separate investigations last week - one related to claims of fraud and the other an alleged kidnapping by an employee several years ago.
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Related Tags: alfa, mts, cdma, vimplecom, police, euroset, Russia
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: MTS, Vimpelcom Hope Chatty Russians Can Prolong Growth
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russia's two biggest mobile operators will struggle to maintain their impressive growth unless they squeeze more out of customers at home and successfully exploit foreign markets, experts say. more
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Svyazinvest says does not consider units bidding for 3G
MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian national telecom holding Svyazinvest is not considering at the moment its subsidiaries? bidding in the recently announced tenders for licenses to provide third generation (3G) mobile telecommunication services, Svyazinvest spokesman Oleg Mikhailov told Prime-Tass Monday. more
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Russia's MegaFon may enter China telecom market
MOSCOW, Dec 12 (Prime-Tass) -- Russia's third largest mobile operator megafon may enter the Chinese mobile telecommunication market, a market source said, Biznes business daily reported Tuesday. more
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Sky Link wants to sell Internet contracts via MTS, MegaFon"
MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian CDMA operator Sky Link wants to sell its contracts for Internet access in a single package with mobile services contracts of GSM mobile operators MTS and megafon, Sky Link's PR Director Olga Pestereva said, Vedomosti business daily reported Monday. 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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Megafon: IPOC Affiliated To Numerous Russian Telecom Cos
..//www.megafon.ru-By Anna Ivanova-Galitsina and Geoffrey T. Smith, Dow Jones Newswires (+7 495) 974 8055; anna.galitsina@dowjones.com(END) Dow Jones Newswires" more
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