Russian Telecom articles from December 2001

Russian Telecom archives from December 2001

Motorola chosen by PentaCom as key partner for Moscow region broadband network. (Top Story).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector has been selected by PentaCom Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Russia Broadband Communications N.V., as a key supplier in the development of its Moscow region broadband network. As a key...

Andrew Corporation concludes sale of Russian ventures. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Andrew Corporation, a global communications systems equipment supplier announced it has completed the sale of Andrew Corporation's interests in a group of Russia-related telecommunications services companies. The purchaser is Antel Holdings...

MTS raises US$250 million from bond market. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... United Financial Group (UFG) reported that MTS has successfully placed its three-year, US$250 million worth of Eurobond. The coupon is 10.95 percent. UFG said that it expects MTS to spend the money on large regional acquisitions. It notes that...

Millicom International Cellular S.A. completes sale of Russian assets to Tele2 AB. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Millicom International Cellular S.A., the global telecommunications investor, announces the completion of the sale of its Russian assets (FORA Telecom B.V.) to Tele2 AB ("Tele2") for 2,461,449 Class B shares of Tele2 at an issue price of 345...

First Capital Intl. Inc., to deliver VIP Butler System. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... First Capital International Inc., an international technology and telecommunications company, has signed its first major contract to deliver its home automation management center units in Russia. Under the terms of the contract, the company...

VimpelCom announces third quarter and nine month financial results. (Russia).
December 1, 2001... Vimpel-Communications announced its financial results for the quarter and nine months ending September 30, 2001. During the quarter ended September 30, 2001, VimpelCom showed further improvement in its revenue, EBITDA and net income figures,...

Mobile Telesystems posts third quarter profit. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has reported total revenue of US$262.6 million for the nine months ending September 30, 2001, an 80 percent increase compared with the same period in 2000. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization...

SSI expands to Russia and commonwealth independent states. (Russia).
December 1, 2001... Space Systems International, Inc. (SSI), a subsidiary of Stratcomm Media Ltd., continues to expand its telecommunications business in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Over the past two years, SSI has designed, deployed...

Sonic Duo to lease network from VimpelCom. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... VimpelCom is considering a proposal from Sonic Duo to lease its network infrastructure in order to install 30 base stations in the Moscow region. According to VimpelCom deputy technical director Valery Ulyanov, Sonic Duo intends to use...

MTS launches network in St. Petersburg. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... MTS has announced the official launch of its network in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. The network includes a switch with initial capacity of 100,000 numbers and 130 base stations. MTS said it will launch test operations in the...

Telia and Rostelekom to lay fiber optics between Helsinki and St. Petersburg. (Russia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Swedish Telia International Carrier, jointly with the Russian long-distance communications operator Rostelekom, will finish laying a fiber optic communications line from Helsinki, Finland, to St. Petersburg in 2002. Telia International...

MGTS to issue ADRs. (Russia).
December 1, 2001... MGTS, a Moscow city network operator is to issue new shares, according to Vladimir Yevtushenkov, the head of holding company Sistema. Yevtushenkov said that the shares will be level 3 American despository receipts (ADRs) and will come onto the...

Armenia.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Armenia's national communications operator Armentel will boost the switching capacity of its GSM-900 mobile communications network from 30,000 to 50,000 subscribers by investing EUR6.5 million in this project. As a result, the area covered by...

Croatian firms team-up to build network. (Croatia).
December 1, 2001... Several Croatian companies may team up to build a second fixed-line national telephone network that might challenge Hrvatski Telekom (HT), controlled by Deutsche Telekom. Electricity board HEP, electrical concern Koncar, and state railways firm...

Ericsson and VIPnet Lobby Croatia on UMTS. (Croatia).
December 1, 2001... The Croatian unit of Ericsson and private GSM operator VIPnet said they were committed to launching an ultra-fast third generation mobile phone network in Croatia in "the shortest possible time. 3G or universal mobile telecommunications...

Koncar to bid for Telephony in 2002. (Croatia).
December 1, 2001... Koncar said it would bid for licenses in national fixed and mobile networks with a consortium of local and foreign partners as soon as tenders are opened. "We are very interested and plan to apply for licenses for the second fixed network and...

CTU seeks more independence. (Czech).
December 1, 2001... The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) needs more power and independence to face head-on the issues emerging from this market's liberalization, CTU head David Stadnik said. The government is currently working on a new law to meet EU norms...

CTU cuts fixed-to-mobile fees. (Czech).
December 1, 2001... The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) said it has capped at half of the current levels fees that mobile operators charge to fixed-line competitors for terminating their calls. CTU said the limit will be 3.66 crowns per minute, effective...

Prime Minister seeks privatization delay. (Czech).
December 1, 2001... Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman wants to delay the sale of Cesky Telecom until after the mid-2002 election. "I will be against speeding up the sale of Telecom. I believe that there is a good chance that prices will rise and the future...

RadioMobil and Eurotel awarded 3G licenses. (Czech).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Czech Republic officially awarded two third-generation UMTS phone licenses. The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) said that RadioMobil and Eurotel, the only bidders in a tender offering three licenses, received the licenses. Deutsche...

TietoEnator acquires the majority of TietoEnator ISS. (Czech).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... TietoEnator has acquired a further 31 percent of TietoEnator ISS a.s. shares in the Czech Republic and gained the majority in the company with 51 percent of the shares. TietoEnator ISS provides high value-added IT services with a customer focus...

Radiolinja Estonia A/S and Nokia test WAP-over-GPRS using the Nokia mPosition solution. (Estonia).
December 1, 2001... Nokia and Radiolinja Estonia have concluded testing of Nokia's mPosition solution and WAP-over-GPRS technology in Radiolinja's GPRS network in Estonia. The tests were carried out from a moving vehicle traveling in urban and suburban...

Com21 teams up with PCT Arvutid to target Eastern European Market. (Estonia).
December 1, 2001... Com2l Inc., a global supplier of system solutions for the broadband access market, has signed a partnership agreement with Tallinn-based system integrator PCT Arvutid Ltd.. and received an order for DOXport 1110 (DOCSIS) and DOXport 1112...

Latvia reaches agreement with Sonera. (Latvia).
December 1, 2001... Latvia and a group of investors led by Finland's Sonera have drafted conditions for an out-of-court settlement in a dispute over ending the fixed-line monopoly of Lattelekom, its Latvian arm. Tilts Communications, the Danish unit of Sonera,...

Lietuvos Telekomas digitizes its network. (Lithuania).
December 1, 2001... Lietuvos Telekomas, a fixed-line operator has finished digitalization of its network in the port city of Klaipeda. Telekomas said the digitalization rate of its network was almost 74 percent, adding that it plans to digitalize subscriber lines...

Nokia to supply GSM expansion to Omnitel. (Lithuania).(Company Business and Marketing)
December 1, 2001... Nokia and Omnitel, a GSM operator have signed a frame agreement for the supply and installation of additional switching capacity to expand the company's GSM 900/1800 network capacity and to modernize it with the newest switching technology. ...

Omnitel predicts fast mobile growth. (Lithuania).
December 1, 2001... Omnitel said rapid market growth could help the number of the Baltic country's mobile phone subscribers to match that of fixed-line clients as early as the middle of next year. Omnitel president Antanas Zabulis said mobile telephone penetration...

Slovenia postpones signing UMTS deal. (Slovenia).
December 1, 2001... The Slovenian government postponed the signing of a deal granting a UMTS mobile telephone license to state-owned operator Mobitel after rival operator Simobil filed a complaint. Mobitel, the sole bidder, won a license to set up a...

Slovenian Mobitel inks EUR225 million syndicated loan. (Slovenia).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Mobitel, a mobile phone operator has signed deal for a 225-million-euro loan with a syndicate of foreign and Slovenian banks. "The loan will be used for refinancing debt and for additional development of the GSM network, as well as for hardware...

Telia International signs deal with GEANT. (Regional).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Telia International Carrier has won a contract to extend the reach of European research network GEANT to the Baltic States. In partnership with Estonian Telephone Company, Lattelekom in Latvia, and Lietuvos Telekomas in Lithuania, Telia is...

Avantis Telecom selects Clarent for its next-generation network. (Regional).
December 1, 2001... Clarent Corporation, a provider of softswitch solutions for next generation networks, has announced an agreement with Avantis Telecom GmbH, a German VoIP-network operator based in Berlin. Avantis Telecom plans to utilize the Clarent softswitch...