http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com For coverage of telecoms in Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:03:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Telecom company Pannon did not reach revenue growth in 2Q, mostly due to decreased mobile interconnect fees by NHH in January. The company, however, significantly saved on its costs thus reaching EBITDA growth. At the same time, investment activity at the company has been reaching a two-year record level. The number ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/pannon-reach-34-million-subscribers/ Vodafone has released its financial results for the quarter ended 30 June 2008 with the following highlights: Revenue of GBP 9.8 billion, up 19.1 percent Group data revenue up 50.6 percent to USD 664 million Total communications services now at 15 percent of Group revenue Proportionate mobile customer base of 269.0 million, up 8.5 ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/vodafone-release-2q-2008-results/ Telenor has released its second quarter results for 2008, reporting that its pro forma revenues (including Kyivstar) increased by three per cent compared to the second quarter of 2007, reaching NOK 27.2 billion (USD 5.31 billion). Underlying revenues increased by seven per cent in the same period. Pro forma EBITDA ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/telenor-release-2q-results/ The Telekom Austria Group announced today that the Vice Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Fixed Net segment Rudolf Fischer will resign as of 31 August 2008 due to personal reasons. However, he will continue to support the Fixed Net segment for another year to guarantee an efficient ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/telekom-austria-group-vice-chairman-resigns/ Russian services conglomerate Sistema is in discussions to sell its stake in long-distance provider Multiregional TransitTelecom (MTT). Kirill Semenov, a spokesman for Sistema, said: “We are in talks to sell our stake, 50 percent of voting shares, in MTT”. The state anti-monopoly service said on Tuesday Russian telecom company Synterra had ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/sistema-selling-mtt-stake/ Latvian telecommunications service provider Lattelecom’s permanent Internet user base has jumped by 23 percent during the first six months of this year, to 168,700 subscribers. Lattelecom has the largest number of customers in the Riga region and Jurmala, with over 77,800 subscribers. The number of Internet subscriptions outside the Riga region ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/lattelecom-subscribership-jumps-23-percent/ MegaFon-Povolzhye (an area of MegaFon’s national network) opens unilateral roaming for subscribers on the Mobitel (owned by VimpelCom)  network in Georgia under the GSM 1800 standard. As of the 1Q 2008 MegaFon, is the third largest cellular operator of the Russian Federation serving more than 36.97 million subscribers, a 22 percent ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/megafon-and-mobitel-sign-roaming-deal/ T-Mobile, the largest mobile provider in the Czech Republic, and Amdocs announced today that T-Mobile will use Amdocs’ CES Enterprise Product Catalog 7.5 software as a central product information repository for services, handset and accessories offered via its self-service portal. T-Mobile companies in Germany and in the UK, that serve a ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/amdocs-and-t-mobile-cr-extend-agreement/ Amdocs and Slovak Telekom, announced today that Slovak Telekom will upgrade and expand its usage of Amdocs OSS (operations support systems). Slovak Telekom will deploy a variety of products from Amdocs’ OSS portfolio to manage service fulfilment for its Internet-Protocol (IP)-based services, such as broadband, and as a platform for ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/slovak-telekom-selects-amdocs-upgrade/ The Bulgarian GSM operator M-Tel and Toxity records announced the start of a new music project, Music Space, aiming at achieving greater popularity for original Bulgarian music. The project aims to give everyone the chance to popularize their music on the Internet and in a mobile environment at the same ... http://cis-russian-telecoms-news.com/premium/m-tel-launch-music-competition/