Articles tagged with: Moscow and St Petersburg

Yota reaches operational breakeven point

Russian WiMAX operator, Yota has announced that it has reached the operational breakeven point. ­This benchmark has been reached by Yota in less than 5 month after the start of the commercial operation of Mobile WiMAX network in moscow and St Petersburg. In Ufa the network commercial operation has started in October.  more

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Russian WiMAX network operator Passes Subscriber Landmark

Russian WiMAX network operator, Yota says that it has signed up its 100,000th active subscriber. The network has added 60,000 subscribers since its commercial launch in June in the cities of moscow and Saint Petersburg. The company already had 40,000 pre-launch trial customers.  more

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Russia & Central Asia Q2 08 - 3G ConnectionsTop Half a Million

The number of W-CDMA 3G connections in the Russia and Central Asia region surpassed half a million in the second quarter of 2008, as Russian market leader MTS joined the fray. Rival MegaFon was the first Russian operator to get next generation services underway at the end of October last year, with MTS entering the market at the end of May and Vimpelcom rolling out its first offerings just a couple of weeks ago.  more

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Russia Passes 100 Million Subscriber Mark

Russia's subscriber mark passed the 100 million mark last month, after a total of 4.8 million new subscribers were added in July. In addition, cellular development did not slow down in July - net additions were 500,000 more than in June, which is in line with the trend for the last few years. Vimpelcom and MTS clearly managed to rev-up sales and off-set the potential negative effect of seemingly inevitable higher churn (repercussions of the aggressive give-away campaign in December 2004 and early 2005). Apart from organic growth Vimpelcom also consolidated 100 thousand subscribers of ST Mobile (Sakhalin). more

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