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Articles tagged with: Sistema and Comstar
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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Russia's MTS Gets Approval to Buy Landline Operator
Russia's Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) says that it has received approval from the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) to acquire the Russian landline operator, Comstar UTS, based on its application filed on May 22, 2009. 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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Russia's Comstar UTS offers corporate Wi-Fi phone networks
MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian telecommunications operator Comstar United Telesystems, or Comstar UTS, has started offering corporate Wi-Fi telephone networks, the company said Wednesday. more
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Russia's Comstar gets IP telephony, WiMAX licenses for 20 regions"
MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian telecommunications operator Comstar United Telesystems, or Comstar UTS, has obtained licenses for IP voice data transmission, including WiMAX services, in the twenty largest regions in Russia, the company said in a press release Monday. more
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Comstar UTS wants to build WiMAX network in 16 Russian regions
MOSCOW, Oct 19 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian telecommunications operator Comstar United Telesystems, or Comstar UTS, has applied for getting frequencies in the 2.5 gigahertz to 2.7 gigahertz frequency range to build a WiMAX network in 16 Russian regions, sistema Telecom's Deputy General Director for Strategy Sergei Baida said, Kommersant business daily reported Thursday. more
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Russia's Sistema may test fixed-mobile convergence in Apr 2007
MOSCOW, July 28 (Prime-Tass) -- Telecommunications operators controlled by major Russian holding AFK sistema may start testing fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) services in April-May 2007, Sergei Shchebetov, general director of sistema Telecom, told reporters Friday. 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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Sitronics, Motorola Discuss Joint Network Project"
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Sitronics, a technology arm of Russia's AFK sistema, Monday said it plans a joint project with Motorola on setting up networks for mobile phone operators. more
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