Russian Telecom articles from April 2001

Russian Telecom archives from April 2001

Svyazinvest and Rostelecom Creating Internet Network throughout Russia.(RTK-com.ru)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... RTK-com.ru, a new Internet company formed by Russian long-distance carrier, Rostelecom, and telecommunications holding company, Svyazinvest, will develop a national Internet network throughout Russia, Svyazinvest general director, Valery...

Inter-Regional Offers New WAP Services to Operators.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Inter-Regional Transit Telecom Ltd. (MTT) is now offering new MTT services - WAP-access and WAP-roaming - to GSM cellular mobile network operators for testing. Implementation of MTT's WAP-access service does not require any additional...

MTS to Buy Telecom XXI.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Russia's largest mobile operator, MTS, has announced that it will buy Telecom XXI, owner of one of St. Petersburg's two GSM licenses. To date, MTS has concentrated on Moscow, Russia's largest mobile market which has 3.8 million mobile...

Telia Signs Breakthrough Capacity Deal with BaltTelecom.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Telia's International Carrier wholesale business unit has signed a one-year deal of undisclosed value with Russia's BaltTelecom for a 45 Mbps IP circuit on the main Stockholm Moscow route via St. Petersburg and Helsinki. BaltTelecom is...

Tegic Communications Announces T9 Text Input Capabilities for the Russian Language.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Tegic Communications, a wholly-owned subsidiary of America Online Inc., has announced the availability of T9 Text Input for the Russian language. T9 Text Input software, also commonly referred to as predictive text input, enables the use...

Sovintel Expands Wireless Access Network.(Lucent Technologies )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Sovintel and Lucent Technologies announced the continuation of their successful cooperation in construction of a CDMA wireless fixed telecommunications network in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Sovintel placed an order for installation of...

Alcatel and Bercut Present New Engineering Solution.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... An engineering solution accepted by specialists of Bercut, a scientific and production company, and Alcatel has supplemented the Alcatel VMA voice mail with subscribers' text notification option. The solution will enable subscribers of NC...

Pirelli Wins US$125 Million Contract for Silk Route Submarine Fiber Optic Cable.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Pirelli SpA said its Pirelli Submarine Telecom Systems SA unit has been awarded a contract worth US$125 million for implementation of phase one of the Silk Route submarine wide band fiber optic cable that will link southern Europe, the Balkans,...

GlobalTel Selling Ericsson R-290 Satellite Telephone.(LM Ericson Telephone Co.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... GlobalTel has started selling Ericsson R-290 portable subscriber terminal stations. Ericsson R-290 is the smallest and lightest satellite telephone developed by Ericsson specially for the Globalstar. The dual-band terminal station operates...

Alliance Formed to Develop HPNA Applications in Russia.(Home Phoneline Networking Alliance)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... D-Link, Sviazkomplekt, and 2COM, an Internet service provider, have combined their efforts to develop solutions for the commercial use of HPNA equipment. The partnership is aimed at development of HPNA-based solutions promising for the Russian...

Global One Develops Solution for IP Telephony Operators.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... At the Norvecom-2001 exhibition, Global One presented a solution for IP telephony operators to transmit voice traffic via data transmission networks (VoIP). The IP telephony center includes a Cisco AS5300/3640 router; a HP E-60 server with...

MTU-Inform Puts New International Internet Channel into Operation.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... A new channel to access Internet with transport capacity of 45 Mbps has been placed in service by MTU-Inform. The channel has been provided by Teleglobe and is connected to the joint basic network of the largest Internet service providers...

MCC Starts Deployment of Test Network Based on Up-to-Date Digital Technologies.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC) has obtained permission from the State Radio Frequency Commission (SRFC) of Russia to use 450 MHz radio frequencies to establish a test IMT-MC network in Moscow and the Moscow region. MCC specialists...

Broadband Access Network Project Completed.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Microtest announced that the project to construct a broadband access network based on ADSL technology was recently completed in Ekaterinburg. This project was ordered by JSC Uraltelecom. The completed network, whose installed capacity is...

Wireless Access to Internet Offered by RBC and Tascom.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Ros Business Consulting agency (RBC) has offered access to the Internet based on the Tascom Paging wireless broadband radio network. Any point in the city can be used to connect to the radio network. The radio network supports higher...

Aist Increases Internet Channel's Transport Capacity.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Approximately 15 km of trunk cables and 8 km of interblock telephone networks were laid by Aist in January and February 2001. During the first two months of the year, over 900 new Aist telephones were connected for dwellers and...

JSC Electrosviaz Constructs Fiber Optic Link between Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... In the middle of February, JSC Electrosviaz signed a contract with Vilcom for delivery of SDH equipment to complete construction of a fiber optic backbone line between Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk. The value of the contract is $700,000. The...

Russian 3G Licenses to Be Issued by the End of 2001.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Third-generation mobile licenses could be issued in Moscow and St. Petersburg at the end of this year. The Ministry of Communications is working on an award process and it is thought likely that Russia will not have a competitive auction. ...

Golden Telecom Acquires Cityline and Uralrelcom.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Golden Telecom Inc., a telecommunications and Internet services company which operates throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire well-established Internet service...

New Service Package Developed for Corporate Clients.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... VimpelCom and Combellga have the announced introduction of the Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) service designed for corporate clients operating in the Russian market. FMC combines the advantages of fixed and mobile telecommunications...

Russia-On-Line Presents New ADSL Technology to Access the Internet.(Golden Telecom)(Abstract)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... New high-speed ADSL access to the Internet has been presented to St. Petersburg users by Golden Telecom under the Russia-On-Line (ROL) trademark. The new broadband technology of ADSL access to the Internet allows ROL users to enjoy...

SONET Begins to Operate Networks in Russian Regions.(JSC Personal Communications)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The SONET cellular network from JSC Personal Communications has announced commencement of test operation of IS-95 networks in three more Russian cities -- Yaroslavl, Tver, and Tula. Commercial operation of the new networks is scheduled to...

St. Petersburg White Nights to Be Held in June.(second international telecommunications symposium, St. Petersburg White Nights)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The second international telecommunications symposium, St. Petersburg White Nights, will be held on June 6-8, 2001. Representatives of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Information, conventional and cellular telecommunications...

Dontelecom Introduces SMS Service.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Dontelecom, a GSM-900 cellular communications operator, has become the first company in southern Russia to offer SMS service to its subscribers. SMS service will operate in the test mode until April 30. During this period, all subscribers...

PTS Constructs Multiservice Communications Network.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... JSC Petersburg Telephone Network (PTS) and Alcatel have signed a contract for delivery of Alcatel data transmission equipment to construct a multiservice network (ATM/Frame Relay/IP/TDM). Within the framework of the signed contract, Alcatel...

LONIIS Installs IP-Telephony Center for Tulatelecom.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Leningrad Research Institute of Communications (LONIIS) has supplied an IP-telephony center it developed to Tulatelecom. This is the first Russian-made hardware-software complex for telephone and computer network integration installed by a...

North-West GSM Acquires Mobile Telephone.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... North-West GSM signed an agreement with Novgorodtelecom for the purchase of 40 percent of Mobile Telephone shares owned by Novgorodtelecom. North-West GSM already holds a controlling interest in Mobile Telephone (50.1 percent). 9.9 percent...

Russian Government Introduces Digital Signature Bill into Duma.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Russian Government has introduced a bill, On Digital Signatures, into the State Duma. Alexandr Volokitin, Deputy Minister of Communications and Information of Russia, and Yuri Shankin, deputy director general of the Federal Agency of...

Croatian Telecom and Siemens Sign US$28 Million Deal.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Croatian Telecom (HT) and Siemens have signed a US$28 million contract for the German firm to supply equipment for the expansion of HT's mobile phone network. The deal is part of a total US$128 million that HT intends to spend this year...

Croatia to Postpone Telecom Sale Deadline.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Croatian government said that it will postpone the deadline for the sale of a 21 percent stake in telecom operator, Hrvatski Telekom, until the end of October as telecom share prices are falling globally. The government previously...

Only Two Bidders for Czech Radiokomunikace.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Czech government has received only two low bids for its 51 percent stake in telecom firm, Czech Radiokomunikace. The bids, both of around 600 crowns per share, are far below government expectations of at least 1,000 crowns and jeopardize...

Ministry to Seek a Higher Ceske Bid.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Czech Finance Ministry has said it will propose exclusive talks with a Tele Danmark consortium interested in buying a majority stake in Ceske Radiokomunikace, in an attempt to raise its bid price. Finance Ministry spokesman, Libor...

Estonian Businesses in Push to Boost Internet Use.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Businesses in Estonia have launched an Internet promotion plan, mirroring the European Union's e-Europe program. The e-Estonia strategy is backed by the national government and aims to encourage more businesses and households to go on-line. ...

EMT Commences GPRS Network Testing.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... EMT, an Estonian operator, has started the testing of a GPRS network. Data transmission rates will achieve 13.4 Kbps within a single channel of EMT's GPRS network. Specific rates will depend on capabilities of a mobile telephone. For...

Tele2 to File Suit against Eesti Telefon over Internet Monopoly.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Estonian Tele2, a subsidiary of Sweden's Tele2, has said it will go to court to fight what it claims is Eesti Telefon's attempts to establish a monopoly over Internet dial-up services. "We will likely file the suit," Tele2's Internet...

Matav and Cisco to Develop IP Services in Hungary.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Hungarian telecom firm, Matav, said it would cooperate with Cisco to develop and launch Internet protocol (IP) services in Hungary, a market with fast-growing potential in the area of the Internet. "Matav and Cisco will combine their key...

Matav Unveils 2001 Interconnect Fees.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Matav has announced new interconnection fees related to concession telecoms services for 2001. The new interconnection fee decree, issued by the Ministry for Transport, Telecommunications, and Water Management became effective on March 9, 2001....

Hungary's New Draft Telecom Law Shocks Incumbents.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Hungary's incumbent operators are up in arms against the surprise amendment to the communications law that, if passed, will remove the obligation for new entrants to invest in infrastructure. The modification is a reversal of the law's...

Lithuania Telekomas Signs New Platform Deal with Compaq.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Lithuanian fixed-line telecom monopoly, Lietuvos Telekomas, has said it signed a contract with Compaq for a new Internet platform technology to increase its market competitiveness. Telekomas said in a statement it will introduce the new system...

First Capital to Expand into Lithuania.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... First Capital International Inc., an international telecommunications company announced that it has made a decision to seriously consider a new acquisition/joint venture business in the Republic of Lithuania. The company believes that the...

Elektrim Extends Deadline for Telekom Deal.(Elektrim contract with Deutsche Telekom AG)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Poland's telecom group, Elektrim, said that a deadline to sell its fixed-line telecom assets to Deutsche Telekom was extended for the second time, until the end of April. Elektrim said that before the deal is finalized, the group needs...

Tele Danmark Eyes Stake in Szeptel.(Tele Danmark A/S, telecommunications)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Danish telecoms operator, Tele Danmark is considering buying a stake in Polish fixed-line phone operator, Szeptel, to strengthen its presence in Eastern Europe. "We are considering such an option, but concrete decisions still have to be...

Slovakia Delays Fixed-Wireless License Bid Deadline.(Telecommunications Office)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Slovakia's Telecoms Office (TU moved the deadline for submitting bids for three national fixed-wireless access licenses to April 22 from April 3, 2001. "According to the law, we have to conclude the tender within 30 days of the appearance...

Race Begins for Globtel Stake.(AIG Inc. submits purchase contract)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... An investment consortium led by US-based insurer, AIG, has submitted a purchase contract for a 36 percent stake in Slovakian mobile operator, Globtel. Other bidders for the US$200 million stake are expected to be venture capitalist fund,...

Nokia to Supply GPRS Core Network to Globtel.(Nokia Corp., contracts General Packet Radio Service)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Nokia has signed an agreement with Globtel to supply Nokia GPRS core network infrastructure. The system will help drive the growth of mobile data business in the Slovak market by giving subscribers always-connected access to the mobile...

Globtel Posts First Quarter Results.(finance)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Globtel posted 745 million crowns (US$15.3 million) earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization in the first quarter of 2001. The firm posted an EBITDA of 468 million crowns in the first quarter of last year and 2.715 billion...

Ukraine Launches Tender for Telecom Sale Adviser.(Ukretelekom)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Ukraine has launched a tender for an adviser in the sale of the national telecoms monopoly, Ukrtelekom, planned for this year. Bids for the tender were accepted until March 23, 2001. The government previously said it plans to sell...

Turkcell Gains GSM 1800 License in Ukraine.(Turkcell A.S., mobile communications operator)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Turkcell has been granted a GSM 1800 license for the whole of Ukraine, according to reports in the Russian press. Turkcell could not be reached for comment, however. Evgeny Golossnoy, at United Financial Group in Moscow, considers that...

UMC Opts for Siemens Solution.(Ukrainian Mobile Communications contracts Siemens AG)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC) announced it has selected Siemens Information and Communication Mobile as the principal supplier of its general packet radio service (GPRS) in Ukraine. UMC, which has around 560,000 subscribers and a...

Ukraine to Sell 13 Percent of Ukrtelekom to Employees.(planning privatization)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Ukraine will sell 13 percent in Ukrtelekom to employees and management ahead of the company's privatization later this year, Economy Minister, Vasyl Rohovy, said. "Preliminary data submitted to us by the State Property Fund and State...

Ukraine to Sell 51 Percent of Mobile Firm, UMC.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Ukrainian government approved the sale of its 51 percent stake in the country's largest mobile operator, Ukrainian Mobile Communications (UMC), Economy Minister, Vasyl Rohovy, said. Rohovy told reporters after a government meeting that...

Ukraine Buys out Foreign Stakes in Utel.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Ukraine's state-owned Ukrtelekom telecoms monopoly has bought out foreign stakes in its international long-distance partner, Utel, ahead of Ukrtelekom's privatization, a Utel official said. "The last payments were made in March for stakes...