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Articles tagged with: Svyaznoi
Russia Faces Mobile Phone Shortage Due to Customs Clamp-Down
Russia is facing a possible shortage of mobile phones following a clamp-down instigated by the Federal Customs Service. Under new rules, a policy of randomly checking handset boxes to ensure they were as advertised has been changed to require that every single box is opened and the contents verified, reports The Moscow Times, citing Vedomosti. The rules are temporary and due to expire in September. more
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Regulator Annuls Handset Retailer's Bond Offering
MOSCOW, Aug 2 (Prime-Tass) -- Russia's Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) has annulled the registration of mobile handset and services retailer svyaznoi's 1 billion ruble bond offering, the regulator said in a statement Wednesday. more
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FOCUS: MTS ready to dump i-mode project
MOSCOW, July 31 (Prime-Tass) -- Having faced sinking average revenues per user (ARPU) for about a year, Russian mobile operators launched several projects aimed at enticing subscribers to use more income-generating non-voice services. While the jury is still out whether the Khameleon project of Russia?s second largest mobile operator VimpelCom and the MegaFon PRO project of the third largest mobile operator MegaFon are successful, Russia's largest mobile operator MTS has admitted that its i-mode project, introduced in September 2005, is a failure. MTS blamed the problems with this project on lack of mobile handsets. more
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LG Terminates Russian Handset Deal
MOSCOW, Jan 25 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian mobile handset and services retailer svyaznoi and South Korean mobile handset producer LG have terminated an agreement on mobile phone supplies, representatives of the two companies said, Vedomosti business daily reported Wednesday. more
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Russia's Svyaznoi handset retailer shuts bulk department
MOSCOW, Nov 23 (Prime-Tass) -- Russian mobile handset and services retailer svyaznoi has closed down its wholesale department, the company's Press Secretary Yelena Nogotkova said, Biznes daily reported Wednesday. more
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Handset Retailer profit soars in January-September
MOSCOW, Nov 15 (Prime-Tass) -- The net profit of Russian mobile handset and services retailer svyaznoi rose to 19.379 million rubles in January-September from 2.424 million rubles in the same period last year, as calculated under Russian Accounting Standards, or RAS, the company said in a financial report Tuesday. more
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Mobile TeleSystems Launches i-mode Portal In Russia
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russia's largest cellular operator, OAO Mobile TeleSystems (MBT), said Wednesday that its users in Moscow and St. Petersburg could begin using the Japanese-developed i-mode portal from Thursday. more
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