Billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Vladimir Yevtushenkov met with Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov to persuade the government to offer frequencies for fourth-generation LTE networks in a tender, Vedomosti reported Friday, citing an unidentified official.
The state’s radio frequencies commission did not reach an agreement to hand the bandwidths to state-run Osnova Telecom and Rusenergotelecom, RIA-Novosti reported later Friday, citing market sources.
(Bloomberg, MT)