Telecom

China and Russia to Build Overland Sino-Europe Optical Cable

China Unicom has signed an agreement with Russian Trans Telecom Company (TTC) for the two firms’ to build an overland Sino-Europe optical cable with bandwidth of 10G bits, the China Business news reported, citing Unicom sources.

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March 22, 2007

Half of Russians Will Have PC’s and Internet Access by 2010

By 2010 half of Russian citizens will have personal computers and access to the Internet, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said, citing forecasts.

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March 19, 2007

Russia Aims to Annually Export $10Bln Worth of Software by 2010

Russia aims to boost its software exports to $10 billion annually by 2010, the country’s Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman said on Thursday, March 15, at the Cebit trade fair in Germany where Russia is this year’s partner nation.

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March 15, 2007

NTT will Link Russia’s Far East and Japan by Fibre-Optic Cable

Japan’s NTT Communications and Russian TransTeleCom are in the final stages of negotiations for a project to link the two nations by jointly laying fibre-optic cable between Hokkaido, northern Japan, and Sakhalin, Russia’s Far East.

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February 22, 2007

Moscow Cablecom Could be Delisted From Nasdaq

Moscow Cablecom Corp., a provider of IPTV and Internet services in Moscow under the brand name “AKADO”, said it was warned its stock could be delisted from the Nasdaq Global Market because the company has not filed a 10-Q form for the period ended September 30.

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November 29, 2006

Germany Denies Future Sale of Deutsche Telekom Shares to Russia’s Sistema

The German government is not currently in talks to sell its Deutsche Telekom AG shares to Russia’s Sistema, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said in an interview with Spiegel magazine.

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November 27, 2006

Sitronics, Cisco Team Up for Work on Russian Telecoms Market

Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s largest maker of computer networking equipment, teamed up with a technology unit of Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s AFK Sistema to offer new telephone gear in emerging markets.

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Kyrgyzstan’s Bitel Accuses Russia’s Largest Mobile Operator of Falsifying Docs

Kyrgyz mobile operator Bitel has accused a subsidiary of Russia’s largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) of falsifying documents, Bitel said in a press release, Vedomosti business daily reported Thursday.

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November 23, 2006

MTS Picks Motorola for Equipment Upgrade

Mobile Telesystems (MTS), the largest mobile operator in Russia and CIS, has awarded an equipment upgrade and services contract to Motorola to improve the quality, capacity and performance of its Moscow region network.

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