Budget operator TELE2 plans to exapnd its operations to the Novosibirsk area by Q3 2009, making it the third new region for the operator in 2009. TELE2 has presence in 6 Federal districts, covering 19 regions and serving almost 11 million subscribers. Plans for 2009 include up to 10 new regions. Other areas where the... »
MTS reports the launch of a pilot project in Bashkiria to deploy a 3-in-1, fixed-mobile and high-speed internet service with a single billing account. The service will be available to corporate and private subscribers. MTS is promising attractive prices and convenience of use with a single support centre for all three services. FTTC and VDSL2 will... »
MegaFon reports that it has introduced CAMEL roaming with TeliaSonera (Finland) for subscribers of its Siberian branch. Source: MegaFon »
VimpelCom (Beeline) has become the first Russian mobile operator to set up MMS exchange with operators in Lichtenstein, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia and Austria. This means that Beeline subscribers can now exchange MMS messages with subscribers of VIPnet in Croatia, Mobilkom in Austria, Mtel in Bulgaria, VIP.Operator in Macedonia, Si.Mobil in Slovenia and Mobilkom in... »
VolgaTelecom has closed a deal to acquire a 100% equity stake in the Sarov operator “Gorodskaya Telefonnaya Svyaz” (City Telephone Network), which provides telephony services in the closed town of Sarov and the village of Satis in the Diveevskiy region of Nizhniy Novgorod district. The board of directors at VolgaTelecom made the decision to enter... »
Residents of the remote city of Ulyanovsk were no doubt thrilled when they heard that MegaFon had connected them to 3G. Company engineers gave demonstrations at a special press-conference, showing how the technology could be used for remote video surveillance and high-speed mobile internet. In the depths of economic crisis, rolling out expensive new services that... »
MegaFon has officially confirmed that Alexey Nichiporenko is leaving the company to move to Svyazinvest, where he will be working on creating a unified national mobile operator. Comnews reports that Nichiporenko’s contract with MegaFon ended in May, and by mutual agreement was not renewed. Nichiporenko’s career with MegaFon goes back as far as 1998, when he... »
Alexander Kiselev, director of the Russian postal service, has confirmed that plans to launch an MVNO may be in the making. While there are as yet no definite plans for the post office to become a virtual operator, similar projects have been successful in many countries. The Russian Post Office is following in the footsteps... »
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