The following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:KTKorea: With Oracle to use its integrated suite of Oracle Communications applications and technology for its next-generation Billing, Service Delivery Platform (SDP) and Operational Support Systems (OSS).Value: UndisclosedRostelecomRussia With: Alcatel-Lucent to deploy its End-to-End IP...
Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week:AlvarionCanada: With Barrett Xplore Inc. to deploy a national 4G network, including subscriber devices and professional services, that will allow the carrier to offer new services to existing customers and to expand into new service areas.Value:...
Vimpelcom and MegaFon - two of Russia's three largest wireless carriers - will offer Apple Inc.'s iPhone "later this year," according to company statements in recent days. Together, the two carriers serve about 80 million Russians, according to news reports. Russia has about 140...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.Cellular--Czech Republic: Telefonica O2 Czech Republic said it is upgrading...
Lucent Technologies Inc. is swimming in new contracts, announcing seven deals valued at more than $300 million at the CeBIT 2006 trade show. "Our customers' competitive landscape continues to undergo tremendous change as the boundaries between the telecom, media and Internet worlds continue to...
HANOVER, Germany—Lucent Technologies Inc. is swimming in new contracts, announcing seven deals worth more than $300 million at the CeBIT 2006 trade show. "Our customers’ competitive landscape continues to undergo tremendous change as the boundaries between the telecom, media and Internet worlds continue to...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it won a network expansion contract worth up to $268 million with MegaFon, one of the top three mobile operators in Russia. The framework agreement that was signed in August 2004 has now been extended from $80.4 million to $268...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG has announced two contracts, one in Russia and another in South Africa.The German wireless supplier signed a $73 million GSM contract to expand the network of Russian carrier MegaFon.The contract will cover the delivery and installation of GSM switches and base...
MOSCOW-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has won a contract to supply Russian GSM 900/1800 MHz operator MegaFon with its multi-service packet network to enable the carrier to combine voice and data traffic.Under the agreement, Lucent will supply MegaFon with its PSAX 1250 and 4500...
MOSCOW-An announcement by Russian operator VimpelCom today could potentially change the landscape of the Russian mobile market. VimpelCom said it agreed that its major shareholder, Alfa Group, would buy an indirect 25.1-percent stake in VimpelCom rival MegaFon."The consent contemplates that the parties will explore...
MOSCOW-Russia' second-biggest carrier Vimpelcom (BeeLine) will finally launch in St. Petersburg next week and plans to borrow close to US$100 million in the domestic market for further regional expansion.Vimpelcom is the last among the "big troika" of national carriers to launch a commercial GSM...
MOSCOW-The Russian Ministry for Anti-Monopolist Policy (MAP), which last year ordered the major national communications holding company Svyazinvest to dispose of non-core wireless assets, changed its mind and allowed the holding to play a role in the mobile market.In February 2002, Svyazinvest completed the...
MOSCOW-Russia's biggest carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) again delayed the launch of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) into commercial operation because of a lack of demand. The carrier initially planned the launch for December 2000, but it has postponed it several times since then. "We've...
MOSCOW-Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman promised to grant nationwide GSM licenses to three major carriers-Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Vimpelcom (BeeLine) and MegaFon.The news is important for the first two carriers, which have not received any regional licenses since 1998 and have expanded to provinces by...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a two-year deal to expand the GSM networks of Russian operator MegaFon targeting a population of 22 million.The vendor, which will supply core and radio-access networks as well as services, said it has begun the first phase...
MOSCOW—The U.S.-based MCT Corporation sold a considerable part of its Russian Indigo project, and market experts believe that may signal an end to the ambitious plan of creating a fourth nationwide network in the country.The RTK-Leasing Company, in which the St. Petersburg-based Gamma Group...
MOSCOW—Russian company Accord-Tel announced plans to create the fifth pan-Russian wireless network with the use of cdma2000 technology based on the International Mobile Telecommunications-Multi Carrier (IMT-MC) standard.Four pan-Russian GSM networks are being created by Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Vimpelcom (BeeLine), Megafon and MCT Corporation (Indigo)....
MOSCOW—Third-generation (3G) licenses will be issued in Russia only after the law on communications is amended, according to First Deputy Communications Minister Yuri Pavlenko."The 3G Association has carried out the necessary research and prepared the required documents. However, the legislative base for the introduction...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Swedish company Tele 2 denied plans to sell the St. Petersburg-based FORA Communications AMPS carrier, which combines operators St. Petersburg Telecom and Oblcom."We are not going to sell FORA. On the contrary, we are planning to develop it and create a third...
MOSCOW—The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is likely to pay more than US$85 million for a blocking interest in the fourth-biggest regional carrier Kuban GSM in the Krasnodar territory in the south of the country. Both carriers announced the deal early this year...
MOSCOW—The Sonic Duo carrier, which is the Moscow stronghold of the pan-Russian Megafon project, received a US$138 million loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the German HypoVereinsbank and Nordea, a leading Scandinavian investment group.Sonic Duo...
MOSCOW—U.K.-based Inquam, a consortium of Qualcomm and Omnia, is reportedly negotiating a deal to purchase Russian CDMA carriers Moscow Cellular Communications (MCC), SONET and St. Petersburg-based Delta Telecom.The news followed a statement by St. Petersburg-based Telecominvest holding that it had decided to sell its...
MOSCOW—The biggest Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) officially confirmed it has reached an agreement on the purchase of a controlling stake in the fourth-biggest regional carrier Kuban GSM in the Krasnodar territory in the south of the country."The companies have signed preliminary documents, which...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—The development of the pan-Russian Megafon project of St. Petersburg-based Telecominvest holding has prompted a series of acquisitions, as the initially "virtual" project reported 1 million clients in only one-half year of operation.Megafon is the only Russian operator that possesses GSM licenses...
