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Articles tagged with: Svyazinvest and Mts
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: 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, 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: 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, 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
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, vimpelcom
FOCUS: Russian mobile operators unhappy with fixed-to-mobile tariff
MOSCOW, June 26 (Prime-Tass) -- The tariff for fixed-to-mobile calls set last week by Russia?s regulator has left mobile operators unhappy with the outcome after weeks of trying to negotiate higher tariffs. The maximum basic tariff for fixed-to-mobile calls, introduced to compensate mobile operators for their losses following the introduction of the Calling Party Pays (CPP) principle on July 1, was set at 1.5 rubles per minute, of which mobile operators will get 95 kopecks, lower than the compensation desired by mobile operators. more
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FOCUS: Russian operators seek compensation on CPP launch
MOSCOW, June 5 (Prime-Tass) -- The introduction of the Calling Party Pays (CPP) principle in Russia next month will result in free incoming calls for mobile users, however, at the same time, it might also bring a hike in tariffs for outgoing calls as mobile operators seek to make up for lost revenue, market participants said. more
Related Tags: mobile-payments, megafon, moscow