Scartel (better known to the consumer under the brand name Yota) is the only Russian company that boasts the frequency LTE (4G), and today one of the most desirable pieces on the telecommunications market. The future of this industry depends on how quickly the company is swooped up and taken under the wing of one of the big three operators. Vladimir Lupenko Partner Financial Consulting Group (FCG) Scartel (better known to...

Telecommunications holding VimpelCom Ltd. plans capital expenditures at 19 percent of revenue in 2012, according to company materials issued Wednesday. Capital expenditures in 2011 totaled about $6.35 billion, or 31.3 percent of revenue, of which $2 billion...

... check bank balances with a wave of their phones, the company told The Moscow Times. A joint program with MasterCard that uses the global credit-card company's PayPass technology, the new feature is expected to be announced at Svyaz ExpoKomm, the annual telecommunications convention taking place this week at Moscow's ExpoTsentr exhibition complex. MTS employees demonstrated the new offering to curious onlookers at the exposition on Tuesday. Standing in front of a vending machine set up on the MTS stand...

... modernization efforts this year. It will be actively seeking market share in fixed-line broadband, wireless broadband and paid television services, Matevosov said. In February, it was preparing to take full control of a Moscow broadband operator, National Telecommunications, Vedomosti reported at the time. That gives Rostelecom a foothold in the capital's market for fixed-line Internet and paid television services. Rostelecom also has a deal with Yota-brand operator Sñartel to develop LTE, sometimes called...

... undertaken rebranding efforts but so far failed to make it to the top 100. MTS slid in the rankings despite reporting a 59 percent increase in its first-quarter net profit earlier this week. The company explained the fall by the worldwide stall in the telecommunications sector. "The decrease in the value of the MTS brand in 2011 was influenced by a number of objective market factors, not related to brand development," said MTS spokeswoman Valeria Kuzmenko. "About 40 percent of MTS shares...

... director at Kominfo Consulting. Any mobile project with an ROI period of more than 10 years is a loss maker, he said. In Solomatin's opinion, another fund like the universal fund should be created to finance such projects. If the state wants mobile telecommunications to work even in regions where it is not profitable, then operators have the right to expect compensation from the government and it's only logical to use the universal services fund, a senior executive at MTS said. 179756

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... innovation, but he passed the social issues portfolio to Olga Golodets, who will oversee demographics, health care, education and labor, as well as youth policy and tourism. Arkady Dvorkovich will answer to Medvedev concerning agriculture, transportation, telecommunications, environmental issues, energy and industry — excluding defense, which will remain the area of Dmitry Rogozin’s expertise. Dmitry Kozak and Alexander Khloponin will also keep their previous responsibilities: the former will...