Mobile Telesystems

MOSCOW-Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman said a third GSM license can be issued in major Russian cities and territories only after penetration exceeds 10 percent of the population there. He cited world experience as showing that no competition emerges if …

MOSCOW-The Russian Agency for Radio Frequencies (GKRCh) decided to allow the creation of 3G trial zones in Moscow and St. Petersburg. GKRCh passed the decision after the Russian 3G Association submitted its research on 3G trial network creation. The applications …

Moscow-Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) became the first Russian carrier to claim 1 million total wireless clients in the middle of November. The company said the 1 millionth client received a Siemens phone and will talk free for a year. …

MOSCOW-The major Russian Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) carrier decided to expand eastward and launched a GSM 900 MHz service in the Urals republic of Udmurtia in November. Udmurtia, which has numerous industrial and manufacturing enterprises, became the 21st of 89 Russian …

MOSCOW-Russian wireless carriers, which this year considerably expanded their client bases thanks to radically decreased prices, registered a major average revenue per user (ARPU) decrease from more than US$215 two years ago to US$36 for one Russian carrier this year. …

MOSCOW-Russia is determined not to lag behind the industrialized world in wireless communications and is planning to issue the country’s first third-generation (3G) licenses in the beginning of 2001. “Our goal is to start issuing licenses for the construction of …

MOSCOW-Russia finally returned cellular frequencies to two major carriers after Communications Minister Leonid Reiman canceled the orders stripping Mobile Telesystems (MTS) and Vimpelcom (BeeLine) of the spectrum. Earlier, Reiman suspended the orders of the frequency control agency Gossvyaznadzor that annulled …

MOSCOW-Russian cellular provider Mobile TeleSystems OJSC launched a Motorola Inc. supplied GPRS mobile data network trial on its dual band GSM 900 network. “We are very pleased to see MTS moving toward an all-IP core network using our end-to-end GPRS …

NEW YORK-Mobile TeleSystems Open Joint Stock Co., a Moscow-based cellular carrier, went public on the New York Stock Exchange June 30 with an offering of 15.01 million American Depository Receipts priced at $21.50 each. Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown was lead …

HELSINKI, Finland-A unit of Finish operator Sonera reportedly was awarded the third Global System for Mobile communications license in the Moscow metropolitan area for $25 million. Sonic Duo, held 35 percent by Sonera and 65 percent by Central Telegraph Mobile, …

MOSCOW-Russian Global System for Mobile communications operator Mobile TeleSystems CJSC and Motorola Inc. launched the first trials to deliver the Internet to mobile phone users in Russia, announced the companies. The trial relies on Motorola’s open Mobile Internet Exchange platform …