Russian Telecom articles from August 2000

Russian Telecom archives from August 2000

Ministry of Communications Sets Standards for Allocations to Telecommunications Supervision Agencies.(Russian Federation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... In pursuance of the resolution dated April 28, 2000, "On reorganization of the system of the state supervision of telecommunications and information in the Russian Federation", the RF Ministry of Communications and Information has issued an...

Russian Federation.(radio frequency allocation regulations)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Resolution of the Russian Government "On the Use and Allocation of Radio Frequency Bands in the Russian Federation to Approximate the International Allocation of Radio Frequency Bands" The Government of the Russian Federation has passed...

Golden Telecom Buys Aport for $25 Million.(acquisition of Internet search engine)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Golden Telecom (GT) announced that it is buying the Aport search engine and its related sites for $25 million. Aport will serve as GT's search engine on its site, Russia-On-Line. GT, which is a subsidiary of US-based Global TeleSystems, will...

China Shows Interest in Russian Satellite System.(installation of global positioning system terminals by Chinese aviation industry)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... According to the Russian Space Agency, China has expressed an interest in the Russian Global Navigational Satellite System (GLONASS). During the visit of Mikhail Kasyanov, the Prime Minister of Russia, to Peking, a contract may be signed,...

VimpelCom Launches Web Site.(services by cellular telephony service provider)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... VimpelCom has launched its own web site, www.beeonline.ru. The Company is inviting subscribers to visit the site to decide on which kind of information they wanted transmitted to their cell phones. www.beeonline.ru offers news briefs, currency...

Russian IP Licenses Total 150.(Internet protocol telephony licenses for service providers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The number of licenses issued to Russian operators by the Russian communication ministry for IP telephony services has exceeded 150. Nearly half of the licenses were issued to regional telecom operators, said the chairman of the ministry...

Telekominvest to Implement ADSL Technology.(analogue digital subscriber line improvements for Internet access)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Telekominvest, St. Petersburg's telecom holding, is implementing a project to open wide-band access to the Internet in St. Petersburg. According to company CEO Alexander Nyago, the $9-million project marks the beginning of a large-scale...

Russian and Kazakh Governments in IT Cooperation Agreement.(information technology cooperation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Russian government has approved the draft agreement with the Kazakh government to develop cooperation in the field of communications and IT. In particular, the sides agreed to coordinate policy vis-a-vis international telecom organizations,...

Private Shareholder Protests St. Petersburg Telecom Merger.(suit over share conversion rates in telecommunications industry planned merger)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... PTS faces an obstacle in its merger, planned for this autumn, with St Petersburg MMT (long-distance) and St. Petersburg Telegraph, after a court agreed to consider a suit from a private shareholder. The suit challenges the share conversion...

MGTS Network May Receive Upgrade from ADR Receipts.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Moscow's poor quality fixed telephone network could be in line for a major overhaul if Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) succeeds in boosting its capitalization and placing a tranche of Level 3 American Depository Receipts (ADRs) on the New...

Prices for Mobile Phones Drop.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Prices for a number of mobile telephones continue to go down. MTS declared a cut in prices for a number of mobile phone models, beginning June 5, 2000. Thus, Ericsson A10l8s costs $75 now instead of $82. Ericsson T28s cost $320 instead of $380....

NEC to Manufacture Payload for Russian Satellite Communications.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Russian Satellite Communications Co. has chosen NEC Corp. of Yokohama, Japan, to manufacture the payload for its Express-AM1 telecommunications satellite, Moscow officials said. A senior official at the Moscow-based company said, in a...

1,000 Subscribers Use WAP Services.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... About 1,000 subscribers to the Northwest GSM cellular company are using WAP services, with the number of holders of WAP supporting phones among the Northwest GSM subscribers ranging between 3,000 and 4,000 people.

Telekominvest May Take Part in Russian Satellite Program.(telecommunication services industry entity)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... St. Petersburg's Telekominvest will possibly take part in the Russian state satellite program. This will happen if Russian President Vladimir Putin signs an interstate agreement with Japanese authorities in August 2000. Japan's NEC Corporation...

A Common Digital Telecommunication Network May Be Established in Moscow and the Moscow Region.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... In the Moscow Region Telephone Communication Scheme, proposals have been prepared for a digital telecommunication network in Moscow and the Moscow Region be established and developed by four operators: JSC MGTS, JSC Rostelecom, JSC Electrosviaz...

The First WAP-Telephone for North-Western Russia.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The first Ericsson R320 WAP-telephone has come into the market in North-Western Russia. Oleg Logunov, a representative of the company, told Monitor that UltraStar company would sell this new model. An Ericsson R320, a telephone 15 mm in width...

Svyazinvest to Buy $100 Million in Equipment from Cisco.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Russia's Svyazinvest telecom holding plans to buy data transmission equipment from the American Cisco Systems for its subsidiaries. The talks have entered the final stage. Svyazinvest is ready to spend $100 million on the equipment necessary to...

Telros to Upgrade Corporate Network.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... St. Petersburg's Telros will upgrade the corporate telecom network of St. Petersburg's Kirovsky Zavod. The company will replace the obsolete step-by-step ATS-54 exchange with a new digital Meridian 1 exchange by Canada's Nortel Networks. The...

Russian Ministry For Communication Lines Introduces a New Passenger Traffic Management System.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Russian Ministry of Communication Lines approved a program to develop and implement the Express-3 computerized passenger traffic management system. Currently, the Express-2 passenger traffic management system, through which tickets are sold...

Giprosvyaz Designs Telephone Installation Program for the Moscow Region.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Giprosvyaz, a communications design institute, has come up with a telephone installation program for the Moscow Region. The document is being considered at Svyazinvest. It will then be submitted for approval by the Moscow regional government....

Security Trading Via Internet is Becoming Popular in Russia.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A project has been started in Nizhni Novgorod to connect one of the city banks, directly from its central office, to the stock exchange section of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange. The project has been implemented in cooperation with the...

Ukrainian Government and Intel Hold Internet Development Discussions.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Ukrainian government is holding talks with Intel on its participation in the development of the Internet network in the republic. According to Kiev's Lucky Net, 89 percent of Ukrainian Internet users are located in Kiev. Overall, the...

Ukrtelekom Doubles Cost of Local Calls.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Ukrtelekom doubled the cost of local calls from 7 kopeks to 13 kopeks per minute in June. Industry analysts contend that the increase could hinder Internet development and cost ISPs subscribers. Because Urktelekom is a monopoly, the increase...

Ukraine Negotiating with the Japanese for Rural Telecom Development.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Ukraine's State Communications Committee is negotiating with the Communications Ministry of Japan on an intergovernmental credit for the development of rural communications networks in Ukraine. The negotiations involved a yen denominated...

Ukrainian Mobile Banking Tests and Trials Complete.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Representatives of UMC, a cellular communications operator in Ukraine, and representatives of Ukraine's major bank, AVAL, have announced the successful completion of their thee-month testing of mobile banking services, which will enable 250,000...

EBRD to Invest $34.2 Million in Ukrainian Mobile Infrastructure.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will invest $34.2 million in the development of mobile communication infrastructure in Ukraine. Credit will be issued to the KievStar private company, to boost the quality of services....

UMC to Offer WAP Services.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... UMC, Ukraine's cellular operator, will provide mobile Internet access using WAP technology. Equipment for the project will be supplied by Finland's Nokia. First clients will be connected in August. Earlier, Golden Telecom GSM announced the...

Current Internet and IT Market Conditions in Vladivostok.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Another side of the problem is that local universities are not staying current on new Internet technologies, and are teaching old material not tied to the current IT market. IT companies have Telecommunication service is the most developed...

Rubicon Delays CDMA Development Project.(Code Division Multiple Access, cellular communications)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Uzbek-American Rubicon Wireless Communication joint venture, operating under the Rubicon U-TEL trademark, will postpone indefinitely its $425 million project to develop CDMA standard fixed cellular communications in Uzbekistan, due to...

Coscom to Invest $70 Million in GSM Network.(golobal system for mobile communication)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Uzbek-American Coscom joint venture intends to invest around $70 million in the GSM cellular network, said JV head Alexei Stepanov. Funds will be primarily used to expand the company regional network, especially in Fergana and Navoi...

Open Contest for Cable Systems Delivery Announced in the Irkutsk Region.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... An open contest for structured cable systems installation in 27 finance bodies of the Irkutsk Region, and delivery and installation of computing machinery has been announced by the chief finance department of the Irkutsk Region. Within the...

Golden Telecom Acquires Shares of Kazakh Telecommunications Provider.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Golden Telecom, a provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services within the CIS territory, intends to buy 60 percent of Nursat shares, the largest provider of Internet, telephony, and data transmission in Kazakhstan, according...

Construction of Fiber-Optic Network Planned in Ural.(by JSC Uraltelecom and Giprosviaz-4)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... JSC Uraltelecom plans to start installation of a long-distance fiber-optic network this year. One customer of the project is JSC Uraltelecom, and its developer is Giprosviaz-4, a Novosibirsk project institute. At present, a commission for...

A New Access Network Based on the Fiber-Optic Communication System Begun in JSC Novgorodenergo.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... In JSC Novgorodenergo, a new network of access and synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) based on the fiber-optic communications system has begun operations. UNI INC developed the network and required equipment supply and commissioning. ...

Sibtelecom Accelerates Internet Access with Sirius Equipment.(JS Sibtelecom)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... JS Sibtelecom, a telecommunication services operator in Irkutsk, has purchased the Sirius equipment made in Borisoglebsk, Ukraine, for a new high-speed network. Nikoly Nikolenko, the general manager of JSC Sibtelecom (with 20,000 telephone...

Kubanelectrosvyaz to Consolidate Subsidiaries.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Kubanelectrosvyaz plans to consolidate subsidiaries in an effort to optimize operations. The company has announced plans to cut the number of its subsidiaries from the current 50 down to 20 by the end of the year. These measures will be...

Cisco and HP Introduce Contact Centers in Internet.(Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.contract)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard intend to introduce "contact centers" to provide global consulting, system integration, and electronic services for corporate customers and service-providers, according to a joint press release. This...

Card Telephones Installed in Briansk.(Russia)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... About 150 card telephones have been installed in Briansk, providing higher quality city telecommunications and allowing connection to any point of Russia and abroad. Usage of a card telephone requires a plastic telephone card from 20 to 320...

Range of Telecommunication Services Extended in Voronezh.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... The volume of telecommunication services rendered in the Voronezh Region in the first half of 2000 increased by 4.5 percent, compared to the same period of 1999, according to the Voronezh regional committee of state statistics. For 6 months of...

NGTS and Electrosviaz Merger.(JSC Novosibirsk City Telephone Networks and JSC Electrosviaz)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A merger of JSC Novosibirsk City Telephone Networks (NGTS) and JSC Electrosviaz of the Novosibirsk Region is to be completed by February 2001. The shareholders of both companies approved the merger project. Sviazinvest can consider the...

Prospects for Employment in Communications Industry.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2000... A source in the Russian Ministry of Telecommunications predicts that employment in telecommunication organizations in 2000 through 2003 will be influenced primarily by actual opportunities to stabilize the industry economics and by results of...

Cable Television Network Expands in Voronezh.(JSC Teleservice in Russia)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... 60 thousand subscribers will be connected to the cable television network in Voronezh by September 2000. Within the Voronezh Region, cable television is available in the regional center and Novovoronezh only. JSC Teleservice is the only company...

Lipetskelektrosvyaz to Invest $1 Million in Network Development.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Lipetskelektrosvyaz will invest about $1 million in the development of its networks in 2000, compared to R59.4 million invested last year, said Vladimir Ptitsyn, head of the company communications service. The company will rely on its own...

Zapsibtranstelekom Completes First Phase of Network.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Zapsibtranstelekom of Novosibirsk, a regional communications operator and Transtelekom subsidiary, has completed the first phase of an integrated digital communications network project along the Novosibirk-Omsk-Nazyvayevkaya,...

Tender for Network Development in Azerbaijani.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Azerbaijani-Turkish Azercell-Telecom joint venture will announce an international tender for the right to take part in the program to expand the GSM mobile network in Azerbaijan. Under the project, a central station will be mounted in Baku...

Growing Competition Forecasted for Rostov on Don.(cellular market)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Experts forecast competition on the cellular market of Rostov on Don to heat up. Since June, St. Petersburg's Northwest GSM has begun rendering cellular GSM services in the city. The Dontelekom local company, which builds the GSM 900 network...

Komi Commissions GSM Network.(cellular network commissioned by)(Mobile Telesystems and Svyaz of the Republic of Komi)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Svyaz of the Republic of Komi and Mobile Telesystems commissioned the GSM-900 cellular network in Vorkuta and Inta. By the end of 2000, the partners plan to commission the GSM network in Usinsk and provide mobile services from the section of...

Smarts to Set Up Subsidiaries in Samara Region.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Smarts, the mobile operator in Samara Region, intends to set up subsidiaries which will promote the GSM network in the Volga Region and the Urals. By 2005, Smarts hopes to boost the number of subsidiaries from 40,000 to 600,000. The company...

Ericsson to Supply Tatinkom with Base Stations.(LM Ericsson Telephone Co. equipment for Tatinkom-T of Tatarstan)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The number of cellular subscribers of Tatarstan's Tatinkom has exceeded 25,000. The company will soon begin installing extra base stations in Kazan, Naberezhny Chelny, and Nizhnekamsk. Equipment is supplied by Sweden's Ericsson.

Siemens to Provide Udmurt Telekom with Radio Equipment.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Udmurt Telekom has commissioned a radio access system in Izhevsk for 480 numbers, the company press release announced. In the future, plans call for commissioning a radio access system in other cities of the republic. Total investment by the...