Issue 158 April 2009
Featuring:
WiMAX – It’s crunch time for the flagship WiMAX carriers, in particular US firm Clearwire.
Chris Bannister: The CEO of Polish operator Play talks to MCI about breaking into a saturated market.
Boris Nemsic: As he moves to Russian carrier Vimpelcom, Boris Nemsic reflects on 13 years at Telekom Austria.
The confusing spat involving Norwegian carrier Telenor, Russian operator VimpelCom and Ukrainian Radio Systems (URS) continues to rumble on, with Telenor this week served with a claim to pay $1.7bn to Farimex Products.
After 13 years at Telekom Austria, Boris Nemsic has moved to take on the role of CEO at Russian carrier Vimpelcom. He talks to Mike Hibberd about the two carrriers and his views on the industry.
We’re well into Lent now, as any practising Christians among the Informer’s readership will tell you. Lent – when the religion’s followers are encouraged to forego a regular food, habit or pleasure – is one of those elements of Christianity that has been adopted by the secular community. Each year unbelievers can be found using it as a handy pre-allocated time period in which to cut out the booze or stop gorging on fatty snacks.
Vimpelcom is a far larger operation than TA, with 57.8 million mobile customers across Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazahkstan and Ukraine as of Q308. The firm also won licences to operate in Vietnam and Cambodia in 2008. Mobilkom, TA’s mobile arm, which Nemsic ran as CEO prior to assuming control of the whole group, [...]
Confusion continues to reign over the ownership of second placed Russian mobile operator VimpelCom. On Monday, Norwegian carrier Telenor said that it had received notice that a Siberian appeals court has arrested Telenor and Altimo’s (Alfa) shares in VimpelCom, amounting to almost 63 per cent of the company. Using a ruling it obtained in Khanty-Mansiysk [...]
Second placed Russian mobile operator VimpelCom said Tuesday that it has successfully set up its Vietnamese joint venture first announced last year. Under an agreement with local state run player Global Telecommunications Corporation and one of its subsidiaries, VimpelCom will set up GTEL-Mobile. The Russian firm will take 40 per cent of the new company [...]
Second placed Russian mobile operator VimpelCom said Tuesday that it will spend $1bn on the formation of a joint venture cellco in Vietnam. The operator will be set up in partnership with the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam and US-based Millennium Global Solutions Group. It will operate under the name GTel Mobile. VimpelCom will [...]
Vimpelcom, the number two operator in Russia, is in talks with private equity vehicle Altimo and Norway’s Telenor on buying their holdings in fixed-line operator Golden Telecom according to local reports. Vimpelcom is owned by Telenor (29.9 per cent) and Altimo (24.5 per cent). These two companies do not get along and the public spats [...]
Russia’s top three mobile operators, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), VimpelCom and MegaFon, won licences to operate 3G services in the country on Friday. In accordance with the licensing conditions, the winning companies are required to begin commercial 3G services within two years of receiving the licence. MTS, the country’s biggest operator, said it plans to launch [...]
A step in the right direction but does it go far enough?
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I agree with Dan about this being a excellent read, and that QNX is not well known but sooner or ...
Excellent read with some actual facts compared to the hack journalist/bloggers on the interest. Many don't understand what QNX ...
The main issue with Telenor is that whether they made underhand payments to ge the licenses. If they did, then ...
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