Russian Telecom articles from September 2000

Russian Telecom archives from September 2000

Russian Satellite Communications Company Implements the Russian Federal Program for 2001 through 2005.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A meeting of the board of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Information was held to discuss the following subject: "On economic and investment activities of the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) to implement prospective...

Russian Ministry Aims to Solve Mobile Issue in One Month.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Russia's Communications Ministry will decide what to do about radio frequencies that regulators tried to seize from the country's two main mobile phone operators within a month, a deputy minister forecast on Friday. Communications Minister...

Five Companies Have Obtained Licenses for Russian Cellular TV Services.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... According to the Russian Communications Ministry, five companies have by now obtained licenses for cellular TV services. MTU-Inform, CT&T LC of Russia, and the Podlipki Corp. have been authorized to broadcast in Moscow and the Moscow region;...

Russia Requires Tapping Devices for all Telecom Operators.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Russian Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies has made it incumbent on all telecom operators to equip their networks with tapping devices used to monitor telephone lines. Under a newly-issued order, all operators,...

Russian Telecom Services up 5.2 Percent.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... According to the Russian State Statistics Committee, in the first half of 2000, telecom services provided in Russia are estimated at 11 billion rubles, an increase of 5.2 percent from the same time last year. Over that period, the number of...

Russian Mobile Providers Lobby for Frequencies.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Russian mobile phone companies under pressure to give up frequencies used for their Moscow networks recently lobbied regulators to back down on their demands. Markets have punished Russia's top two cellular phone providers, Mobile TeleSystems...

Putin Signs Information Security Doctrine.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... President Vladimir Putin has signed a sweeping "information security doctrine" that its authors say safeguards Russians' right to information and privacy -- but which critics say is the latest threat to media freedom. The 46-page doctrine...

Alcatel May Sell Stakes in Russian Companies.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Alcatel is not excluding the possibility of selling to third parties the stakes in two Russian phone companies it has taken over from the Canadian Newbridge Company. Alcatel holds 50 percent stakes in the two joint ventures with the Moscow City...

Russian and Canadian Companies Nearly Complete DMS Network.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The assembly of a DMS-100 digital electronic telephone exchange, devised by the Canadian company, Nortel, is nearing completion in the Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region. Russia's Ron Telekom is responsible for the assembly and shakedown...

Russian Company to Launch Space Telecom System.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Russia's Megamicro Technology International has launched a project to build a Rostelesat multifunctional space telecom system. The company intends to raise about $6 billion, including foreign investment, for the project, which is expected to be...

Elektrosvyaz Increases Sales in Altai Region 30 Percent.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... In the first half of 2000, the Elektrosvyaz company in Russia's Republic of Altai increased its sales by 30 percent, to R26.8 million, as compared with the same time last year. (Monitor)

Russia Begins Talks with Japanese-Led Consortium on Major Project.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Russian government is holding talks with a consortium of companies led by the Japanese NEC on a would-be involvement of those companies in a project for the construction of a fiber optic line to link European and eastern Russian regions,...

Consistent Russian Internet Users Cap at 900,000 for the Second Straight Year.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The number of consistent Internet users in Russia totaled 900,000 people in the first half of 2000, the same as last year, reported the Monitoring.Ru agency. The agency claims that the annual 50-70 percent growth reported by different analysts...

Russian Telecommunications Market Tests Network Alchemy.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Avaya Communication has announced the beginning of a campaign to promote the Network Alchemy product (ISDN standard) on the Russian market. Network Alchemy includes a digital ATX featuring a voice mail, fax server, and computer-telephone...

Moscow Cellular Services to Eclipse the Two Million Mark by Year's End.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The number of subscribers to Moscow cellular communications services will top two million by late 2000, forecasts Renaissance Capital analyst, Andrei Braginsky. According to Braginsky, Mobile Telesystems (MTS) will have over 1.1 million and...

Mobile TeleSystems Will Launch Third-Generation Network in 2001.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) will have its third-generation network begin trial operations in Moscow in the first quarter of 2001 at the latest, announced company vice president, Yuri Gromakov. American Motorola will supply equipment for this...

Mobile Telesystems Raises $350 Million, Eyes the Future.(includes financial results)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... Mobile Telesystems (MTS), a Russian mobile communications operator, raised $350 million by placing company American Depository Shares (ADSs) on the New York Stock Exchange. According to MTS president, Mikhail Smirnov, company capitalization...

Fight Over Clients Continues on the Moscow Market of Cellular Communications.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Fierce competition between the largest cellular communications operators continues in Moscow. The companies are forced to offer increasingly lower tariffs and more comprehensive services to their clients. Thus, Moscow Cellular Communications...

Sankt-Peterburgskiye Taksofony Installs New Pay Phones.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Sankt-Peterburgskiye Taksofony company has started to install new coin operated pay phones made by the Swiss Landi&Gyr company. Two hundred pay phones are expected to be installed by the end of September. So far only local calls can be made...

Cable Communications up 1.3 Percent in St. Petersburg.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2000... The number of subscribers to cable communications in St. Petersburg grew by 1.3 percent in the first eight months of 2000. (Monitor)

NTV-Internet to Offer Satellite Access to the Web for Saint-Petersburg.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NTV-Internet (Media-Most Holding) intends to enter the market of the Northwestern region with satellite access to Internet in December this year. The company has been already offering this service in Moscow since May 2000. Unlike general...

Gossviaznadzor of Primorie Cuts Off Internet Providers in Vladivostok.
September 1, 2000... The number of incoming lines of Primorie On Line, one of the largest Internet nodes in the city, has decreased and its clients are forced now "to stay in line" to access the Web. The Primorie On Line node belongs to Electrosviaz and is...

South Korean Company to Sell 49 percent Stake in Ukrainian Company.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The South Korean Daewoo concern intends to sell its 49 percent stake in the Ukrainian Wellcom mobile communications operator by the end of 2000. According to Wellcom marketing department head, Irina Ilyichenko, a number of foreign and Ukrainian...

Ukrainian Utel Determined to Subsidiary of Ukrtelecom.(to remain legally independent subsidiary)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Ukrainian telecommunications company, Utel, intends to see to it that it remains a legally independent subsidiary of Ukrtelecom, announced Utel president, Alexei Marinchuk. This independent status will enable his company to be more...

Ukrtelecom Increases New Lines in Rural Areas.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ukrtelcom plans to make about 70,000 new telephone lines operative in rural areas in 2000, announced company management board chairman, Stanislav Dovgii. According to Dovgii, Ukrtelecom put 30,000 telephone lines into operation in the...

Ukraine's New Telephone Lines Show Same Increase as Last Year.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ukraine will make 268,000 new telephone lines operative this year, the same as last year, announced Ukrtelkom director general, Stanislav Dovgii. There are currently 20 telephone lines for every 100 inhabitants of Ukraine, 50 percent to 66.7...

Mkm Telecom to Finish Laying Optic Transit Ring Around Kyiv.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Mkm Telekom, a telecom equipment manufacturer in which Siemens has a 66 percent stake, will finish laying a fiber optic transit ring around Kyiv by the end of this year. The company has begun work on a transit ring construction project in...

Ukraine to Terminate Permits for Mobile Phones.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ukraine's State Communications and Information Committee will abolish permits for using mobile phones, announced committee deputy chairman, Nikolai Orlenko. Mobile phone users in Ukraine were issued permits to be shown to Communications Control...

Red Stars to Subsidize Internet Projects in Ukraine.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Red Stars venture company intends to finance two or three Internet projects in Ukraine, according to Imre Brenzovich, company director for Southern and Eastern Europe. The company is now considering about 40 Internet projects devised in...

Ukrainian Internet Users Top Between 450,000-500,000.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... According to the Ukrainian State Communications Committee, there are now between 450,000 and 500,000 Internet users in Ukraine, including 200,000 to 220,000 residents who use the Internet regularly.

Ukrainian Telecom Industry Up 24 Percent.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Over the first seven months of 2000, the Ukrainian telecom industry increased revenues to 3.633 billion hryvnias, a 24 percent increase from the same time last year. 951.8 million hyrvinas worth of services were provided to the public, an...

Ukraine's Mobile Operator to Develop GSM-900 Network in Underground Kyiv.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... UMC, the Ukrainian mobile communications operator, plans to develop its GSM-900 network in the Kyiv underground, announced UMC marketing director, Bogdan Kupich. According to Kupich, the company will thus get an edge in competition for foreign...

UMS Company Controls over 50 Percent of Ukrainian Cellular Market.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... According to the Ukrainian state telecom committee, the UMS company controls 52.6 percent of the cellular market in the republic. Next in line are Kyivstar GSM with 28.7 percent of the market, Golden Telecom with seven percent, the Ukrainian...

CIS Operators Intend to Change Over to Digital Broadcasting Systems.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The council of heads of Communications Administrations of the CIS countries approved, at its regular meeting, a draft resolution "On transition of CIS countries from analog TV-and radio broadcasting systems to the digital systems." This news...

Azerbaijan and Georgia to Cooperate in Telecom Sector.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Azerbaijan's Communications Minister, Nadir Ahmedov, and Georgia's Transport and Communications Minister, Merab Adenishvili, have signed a protocol for cooperation in the telecommunications sector. The protocol regulates the participation of...

With International Help, Azerbaijan To Finish Local Network in October.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Azerbaijan's Azel Company will finish installing a local area network and software by the end of October. The project has been financed with $1 million credit drawn from the International Development Association, under a program implemented by...

Georgian Government Attempts to Clear Trans-AsiaEurope Problems.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Georgian parliament has asked the local Transport and Communications Ministry to settle the situation around the Georgian section of the global Trans-AsiaEurope telecommunications network. The entire three licenses for fiber optic cable...

GT Mobile Begins Operations in Georgia.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The GT Mobile company has begun operations in Georgia, its fourth operator of GSM standard mobile communications. The company was founded by Dutch Sintour (controlling 80 percent of company shares), the American Sand Group (10 percent) and...

Georgian Fiber Optic Project on Railways Launches.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The laying of a fiber optic communications line along Georgia's major railway is expected to begin this September. The European Union granted $6 million to finance the two year-long project, and the Georgian Railways is expected to expend...

Azeri-Israeli Venture Markets New Cellular Phones.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Azerbaijani-Israeli joint venture, Bakcell, has offered cellular phones at new prices and is being trumpeted by an advertising campaign. A Bosh-509 mobile phone is offered for $45, while a Philips or Sagem sell for $55. Customers will also...

Rubicon Wireless Tests Major Switchboard in Uzbekistan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Rubicon Wireless Communications (RWC) company has begun testing the CMS 8800 switchboard mounted in Tashkent with a capacity of 12,000 numbers. The equipment went from the Swedish Ericsson Radio Systems AB company as part of a contract to...

Irish Consultancy Examines Telecom Network in Tajikistan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Irish Aircom International consulting company will make a feasibility study for Tajikistan's telecommunications network modernization project. Aircom has won a tender called by the EBRD, which will finance this project. The European Bank...

New Mobile Internet for Network Users is Announced in Kazakhstan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... K-Mobile and Texakabank have announced the start of the new service to mobile network users -- Internet access via WAP-protocol. Nursat, the largest Internet-provider, was the initiator of this project and executed technical realization of the...

Video-Telephone Equipment to Connect Remote Altai City with Other Centers.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Altaitelekom company is putting the finishing touches on the mounting of a video-telephone communication equipment in the city of Rubtsovsk in Altai Territory. The video-telephone may connect users with Russian regional and territorial...

Energia Will Construct Four Satellites for Gazkom.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Energia Space Rocket Corp. is to produce four Yamal-200 next-generation communication satellites. The order was placed by Gazkom, a subsidiary of Gazprom.

Internet Via Radio: The Last-Mile Solution.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Zenon N.S.P., an Internet provider, and ArtCommunications, a telecommunications company, will provide high-speed leased circuits to access Internet via radio. Data transmission capabilities available to ArtCommunications will be used for that...

Rostov Dwellers Notified About Forthcoming Time-Based Telephone Charging.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... On September 14, 2000, V.V. Ukhov, general manager of JSC Rostovelectrosviaz, held a press conference on introduction of the time-based charging of local telephones in Rostov-on-Don and the Rostov region. The company started operation of...

Introduction of Digital Technologies -- Priority of JSC Electrosviaz of the Pskov Region.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Digital technologies are being actively developed in the Pskov region, in Electrosviaz where a meeting between Evgeni Mikhailov, the governor of the Pskov region, and personnel of the company was held, the Monitor recently reported. At...

GSM-900 Coverage to Expand in Irkutsk Region.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Baikalvestcom, a limited company, intends to expand GSM-900 coverage in the Irkutsk region in the next few months. Since January 1999, Baikalvestcom has connected approximately 1,500 GSM900 subscribers in Irkutsk only. According to the...

Trial Operation of Devices to Protect Telephone-Transmitted Data Started in Ekaterinburg.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Ekaterinburg Telephone Network, an open joint stock company, offered a new data protection means to its clients. With the startup of a few digital ATXs, installation of the Grot and Grot-C scramblers became possible to protect telephone and...

Fiber Optic Link along the Trans-Iberian Trunk Line to Be Completed in the Short Run.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Railway Ministry of Russia is planning to complete construction of the fiber optic link along the whole trans-Iberian trunk line in the short run. The fiber optic link placed into service would allow electronic tracking of goods, including...