The Russian communications companies have practically won the struggle for Turkcell, the Turkish largest mobile operators: the Caribbean Court has acknowledged the Alfa Group"s right for a stake in the Turkcell owned by the Turkish Cukurova Group. But analysts believe

The Investment Holding Finam has invested into the Delta Telecom Company, which owns the DeltaPay payment system. Finam considers the given...

The Rambler Media has announced its financial statement for QI 2008. Rambler Media"s (including the context advertising service Begun) consolidated revenue has...

Synterra taks a credit of 3.6 bn rubles ($154.071 mln) from UniCredit Bank for 3.5 years, RBC reports. The credit will...

The Russian State Duma have started considering the draft law on technoparks, which is to eliminate the gaps in the Russian legislation on innovative activity. The first reading is held in current autumn. According to market participants, the new law

Having made payment terminals the most popular means to top on, the Russian terminal operators have launched foreign expansion. The Joint Instant Payment System (JIPS) has started operating in China. In the near future the company hopes to install its

The ITSC daughter company established early in April 2008 is responsible for IT servicing of Gazprom Neft (former Sibneft). After Sibur becomes one of the company"s shareholders, ITSC will start servicing its IT structure as well. According to experts, ITSC

Olga Dergounova, the former Microsoft"s President in Russian and current member of VTB"s executive board, has become the first independent director of the Systematica Group. Market participants approve of Dergounova"s appointment and believe inviting independent directors will be actively used

Gazprom Neft has announced to establish a daughter company - IT Service Company, Ltd. - to improve the efficiency of IT...

Seeking to provide Indian citizens with mobile communication, the Russian JSFC Sistema and ByCell intend not to construct networks from the ground but to spend more than $1 bn to rent existing infrastructure. Analysts approve the given decision especially as

The Euroset company has launched SIP-telephony under is own brand. The new service competitive with Skype and other VoIP services is presented as a cheaper alternative (2 to 70-fold saving) to long-distance communication and roaming mobile communication. General investment into

The Micron Plan affiliated with the Sitronics Company plans to start producing chips of 130 nm technology. Furthermore, Sitronics is considering the possibility to participate in the Crolles2 Alliance, whose members - IBM and IBM и STMicroelectronics - are engaged

Euroset has announced to launch a new SIP-telephony project under the Euroset brand. Now the calls to any direction cost less...

Sky Link shareholders, JSFC Sistema and St. Petersbug Group of communications companies, have provided security for loans of $168 mln granted by Sberbank to Sky Link earlier. The company says such a scheme might be used to receive more favorable

Vimpelcom has signed an agreement with the RF Sberbank to open a five-year credit facility of $750 mln, RBC reports. The...

On April 1, 2008 North-West Telecom (NWT) launched its pilot project to provide Triple Play through PON (passive optical network). ...

Parallels plans to increase its proceeds in Russia 10-fold up to $10 mln in the coming three years. The company stakes primarily on corporate customers with server infrastructure. Moreover, the vendor hopes to strengthen its foothold on the market of

A universal communications operator Metrocom has won the tender for expansion of a unified multiservice telecommunications network for St. Petersburg state authorities. The transaction charge amounts to about 350 mln rubles ($14.975 mln). The other company that participated in the

On April 17 the Second Annual CNews AWARDS 2008 Ceremony was held. Through direct e-voting the experts invited chose the best ICT projects 2007 and awarded professionalism of certain specialists.

Croc"s revenue was up 53% reaching $803 mln in 2007. In general about 650 large corporate projects were implemented. The share of special business applications implementation in the service portfolio of Croc and other system integrators is increasing, experts say.