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Articles tagged with: Svyazinvest
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
Related Tags: mts, vimpelcom, megafon, comstar, sistema, Russia
Russian Subscriber Growth - On the Brink of a Slowdown?
In the first quarter of 2009, the Russian market surpassed 190m customers and almost reached 135% penetration. The end-quarter total customer base of 190.65m was up by 22.81m year on year and the penetration rate of 134.8% was 16.6pp higher than the year-earlier figure. These are both strong gains, and they seem to indicate that growth is continuing unchecked. However, the quarterly figures suggest that Russia may be on the brink of a slowdown. more
Related Tags: vimpelcom, mts, megafon, tele2, uralzvyazinform, -sibirtelecom, volga-telecom, volga, Russia
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
Related Tags: mts, vimpelcom, megafon, comstar, sistema
Russia's Penetration Over 125% and No Sign of Stopping
The Russian market surpassed 125% penetration during Q3 to finish the quarter on 126.9%, but growth showed no sign of slowing: in fact, the annual growth figure of 14.5% was up 0.7pp compared to the prior twelve-month period. With 179.81m customers, Russia remained the fourth largest market in the world, around 87m behind the USA and 39m ahead of Brazil. more
Related Tags: arpu, megafon, mts, vimpelcom, volga-telecom, volga, Russia
Continuing strong progress from Russia's 5th largest operator
Uralsvyazinform, the arm of svyazinvest operating in the Ural region of Russia, has produced a strong set of results for the nine months ended September 2007. Revenues are up 25% at US$1,120m, while EBITDA has grown by 27% to US$842m. Not all of this gain reached the operating line, but this was still an impressive 19% up, at US$278m. more
Related Tags: mts, arpu, Russia
Swiss court rejects IPOC's appeal over MegaFon stake
MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Prime-Tass) -- Switzerland's Supreme Court has ruled that IPOC International Growth Fund does not have ownership rights to a 19.4% stake in Russia's third largest mobile operator MegaFon, the stake's former owner, LV Finance, said in a press release, Vedomosti business daily reported Monday. more
Related Tags: megafon, teliasonera, alfa, alfa-group, supreme-court, leonid-reiman, lawyer
Bermuda regulator wants to liquidate MegaFon holder IPOC
MOSCOW, Feb 8 (Prime-Tass) -- The government of Bermuda has asked a court to liquidate a company holding a stake in Russia's third largest mobile operator MegaFon, Bermuda's The Royal Gazette said, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported Thursday. more
Related Tags: megafon, supreme-court, leonid-reiman, lawyer
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
Related Tags: megafon, sistema, mts, vimpelcom
Sibirtelecom mobile user base up 50% in January-November
MOSCOW, Dec 22 (Prime-Tass) -- The mobile subscriber base of Russian telecommunications operator Sibirtelecom rose 50% in January-November to 3 million users as of December 1, the company said Friday. more
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Dalsvyaz CEO says may sell mobile telecom assets
MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian telecommunications operator Dalsvyaz may be interested in selling its mobile assets, the company's General Director Anton Alexeyev said, Kommersant business daily reported Monday. more
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