Russian Netwell opens representative office in KyivRussian telecommunications equipment and technology distributor Netwell opens representative office in Kyiv. Ukraine is the first country in which Netwell will have its international office. The main task of Kyiv office will be extending the sales network in Ukraine, informed Paudis.
Deputy general director Yevgeniy Chepusov commented: “Being a niche distributor we are able to provide our partners with access to unique products and solutions allowing them to make market in them and create demand, resulting in maximum profitability to them. Without any doubt, together we would be able to reach important goals.”
Despite the fact that Netwell has been dealing with many partners in CIS for a long time, the opening of Kyiv representative office created the most comfortable conditions for further mutual cooperation. Now there is a permanent warehouse facility in Ukraine which would help to significantly decrease delivery times. Specialists of Ukrainian office will conduct technical expertise of the projects in Ukraine and support their partners and customers at every stage of the projects implementation.
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Kyivstar Introduces Home Internet Service In Five CitiesThe Kyivstar telecommunication company introduced the Home Internet service in five cities in February and March 2011.
In particular, the service under the FTTB technology was introduced in Dniprodzerzhynsk (Dnipropetrovsk region), Lozova (Kharkiv region), Makiivka (Donetsk region), Netishyn (Khmelnytskyi region), and Chervonohrad (Lviv region).
At present, Kyivstar provides the service of access to the Internet in 43 cities, un.ua says.
In October 2010, following the merger of Kyivstar and the Beeline communication operator (the Ukrainian Radiosystems and Golden Telecom companies) the resulting company began providing services under the single brand Home Internet in all cities, including cities where Beeline had introduced the Beeline Internet at Home service.
The number of subscribers of Kyivstar and Beeline decreased by 2% to 24.44 million in November 2010.
The Kyivstar telecommunications operator and the Beeline mobile communications operator (the Ukrainian RadioSystems and Golden Telecom companies) ended the period of October-December 2010 with a net profit of UAH 514.1 million.
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Vega Introduces Service Of Phone Calls Through Internet For Corporate ClientsThe Vega telecommunications group has introduced a service "Vega Network" for phone calls through the Internet from April 4.
The service will allow corporate subscribers to make phone calls from a city number of Vega to all directions and will provide free calls between employees of different offices within one city with the use of inside numbers (201,202, 203, and others).
The operator offers two tariff plans within this service: Vega Network 3 and Vega Network 4 which include 3 and 4 IP-lines respectively with inside numbers and a city number of Vega. The number of IP-lines can be expanded to eight.
The use fee within the tariff plans is UAH 50 and UAH 60 a month respectively.
The service is available for corporate clients in Kyiv, Boryspil, Vyshneve (both in Kyiv region), Donetsk, Mariupol, Makiivka (both in Donetsk region), Kharkiv, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Novomoskovsk, Kryvyi Rih (both in Dnipropetrovsk region), Zaporizhia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yalta, Yevpatoria (the cities are in Crimea), Lviv, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Vega telecommunications group was created as a result of the re-branding of the Farlep Optima group of companies (which consisted of the Farlep, Optima Telecom, Ukomlain, TsSS, IP Telecom, Matrix, Vilcom, and several other companies).
The Vega Group is part of the Donetsk-based System Capital Management company.
The Farlep-Invest open joint-stock company manages the Vega Group.
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MTS Ends 2010 With Profit Of UAH 752 MillionThe mobile communications operator Ukrainian Mobile Communications rendering services under the MTS brand finished 2010 with a net profit of UAH 752 million.
Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the operator.
In 2010 the operator increased its net revenues by 4.1% to UAH 8.511 million, comparing with 2009.
The company notes that growth in revenues and control over the cost-efficiency helped to ensure high profitability of the company's business.
MTS's OIBDA (Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization) rose by 7.4% to UAH 3,955 billion and margin went up by 1.5 p.p. having amounted 46.5%, compared with 2009.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the company finished 2009 with a net profit of UAH 640.3 million, and decreased its net revenues by 4.9% or UAH 421.5 million, comparing with 2008, to UAH 8,172.7 million.
MTS's OIBDA amounted to UAH 3,681.3 million in 2009.
100% of the shares in the Ukrainian Mobile Communications belong to the MTS company (Russia).
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PEOPLEnet Lowers Cost Of Calls To Mobile Operators’ Numbers By 18.8-21.4%TeleSystems of Ukraine, a company providing CDMA mobile communications services under the PEOPLEnet trademark, lowered cost of calls to number of mobile communication operator by 18.8-21.4% to UAH 0.55-0.65 per minute in three tariff plans from April 11.
In particular, in frames of the Mobile Mini tariff plan, the cost of calls to Ukrainian mobile communication operators was lowered by 18.8% or UAH 0.15 to UAH 0.65 per minute; Mobile Midi has now 20% cheaper calls cost lowered to UAH 0.60 per minute; and Mobile Maxi offers 21.4% cheaper calls, which now cost UAH 0.55 per minute.
At the same time, the operator lowered the number of package minutes for calls to number of mobile communication operators: by five minutes to 15 minutes within the Mobile Mini tariff plan, twice to 30 minutes within Mobile Midi, and twice to 60 minutes within Mobile Maxi.
Besides, in two tariff plans, PEOPLEnet lowered subscriber fee: by 10% or UAH 5 to UAH 45 per month in Mobile Midi and by 16.7% or UAH 15 to UAH 75 per month in Mobile Maxi.
The cost of calls to number of fixed telephony operators have been retained and is now UAH 0.50 per minute for Mobile Mini, UAH 45 per minute for Mobile Midi and UAH 0.40 per minute in Mobile Maxi.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the number of PEOPLEnet subscribers rose 8.2% or 45,956 to 608,433 in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Forton Limited (Dnipropetrovsk) owns 24.99% of shares in the company, Elidor limited liability company(Dnipropetrovsk) owns 24.99% too, Epilmor Business Corp. (Panama) holds 18.09%, Bracelos Properties Corp. (Panama) 18.09% as well, while Grosulo Investment S.A. (Panama) holds 13.8% of shares.
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Ukrainian RadioSystems Reorganized From Closed Joint-Stock Company Into Private Joint-Stock CompanyThe Ukrainian RadioSystems company, which renders its services under the Beeline brand, from a closed joint-stock company into a private joint-stock company.
The changes are related to requirements of the Ukrainian Law "On joint-stock companies."
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, on October 5, 2009, the Altimo company (Russia) and Telenor agreed to merge Kyivstar and VimpelCom to create a new cellular communications operator, VimpelCom Ltd. (Bermuda islands), to provide integrated cellular communications services in Russia, Ukraine, and other member-countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as in Georgia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
The two companies intend to complete their merger by 2014.
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Kyivstar To Incorporate Storm And Raise Statutory Fund By UAH 350 Million To UAH 884.4 MillionThe Kyivstar telecommunication operator has decided to incorporate Kyiv-based Storm limited liability company and respectively raise statutory fund by UAH 350 million to UAH 884.369 million, head of Kyivstar press service Yulia Shylina told the Ukrainian News agency.
Stockholders of the company took the decision on March 14.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, On October 5, 2009, the Altimo company (Russia) and Telenor agreed to merge Kyivstar and VimpelCom to create a new cellular communications operator, VimpelCom Ltd. (Bermuda islands), to provide integrated cellular communications services in Russia, Ukraine, and other member-countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as in Georgia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
Kyivstar and Beeline intend to complete their merger by 2014.
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Mobile Communication Operators Favour Being Empowered To Provide Mobile PaymentsMobile communication operators are demanding right to provide mobile payments.
"To actively develop useful and convenient service of mobile payments in Ukraine, the state should introduce amendments into the legislation that regulates provision of telecommunication and financial services," press service of the Kyivstar telecommunication operator told the Ukrainian News agency.
Kyivstar said that current legislation allows mobile communication subscribers to pay only for telecommunication services using their mobile phones, but payments for services rendered by other organizations refer to financial services and require respective licensing.
Press service of the MTS Ukraine mobile communication operator also said that operators cannot independently hold mobile payments as they do not have legal right to that.
In its turn, press service of the Astelit mobile communication operator (the life:) brand) told the Ukrainian News agency that the company is analyzing situation in that sector and searching opportunity to provide the service in frames of current legislation.
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Property Fund Calls 5 Austrians Ultimate Owners Of UkrtelecomThe State Property Fund of Ukraine calls five Austrian nationals, three of whom are EPIC managing partners, the ultimate owners of ESU (Kyiv; subsidiary of the European Privatisation and Investment Corporation, EPIC, Austria), which on March 11 acquired 92.79% of shares in Ukrtelecom, Ukraine's biggest telecommunication company, Property Fund Chairman, Oleksandr Riabchenko, has announced when speaking to the Verkhovna Rada.
In his words, EPIC managing partner Peter Goldscheider holds 24% of the shares, Brigitte Goldscheider 23.5%, EPIC managing partner Gustav Wurmboeck 24%, Marina Wurmboeck 23.5%, and Franz Lanschutzer, another managing partner, 5%.
He notes that ESU, when submitting documents for the privatisation, provided information about its owners.
"The buyer (ESU) is owned by a Cyprus-based company [EPIC Telecom Invest Ltd], the Cyprian company belongs to the Austrian company [EPIC], and the Austrian company is owned by five Austrian citizens," he said.
Before, EPIC said that EPIC Goldscheider & Wurmbock, Vienna (EPIC), the exclusive owner of EPIC Advisors Limited (EAL), which through its subsidiary, EAL, is the sole owner of EPIC Services Ukraine (ESU), had made a decision to optimise the holding structure, having adapted it for the privatisation of Ukrtelecom by transferring rights to direct ownership of ESU to EPIC Telecom Invest Ltd (ETI).
EAL is 100-percent owned by ETI.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the State Property Fund on March 11 sold 92.79% of shares in Ukrtelecom to ESU for UAH 10.575 billion.
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Intertelecom Introduces SIP-Telephony Service For International CallsCDMA operator Intertelecom has introduced SIP-telephony service for international calls, director general of the company Borys Akulov told the press.
"In March, we introduced new service for our subscribers. SIP-telephony is Internet telephony with the database of 799,000 numbers and 8 million mobile numbers that allows our clients to use any number in any corner of the world," Akulov said.
He said that the service is available at any place where Internet is available.
He said that users pay only subscriber fee or payments for traffic excessive within the Internet plan.
Therefore, clients pay not for international calls but for intercity ones.
Akulov said that the service is suitable for businessmen and ordinary subscribers.
He said that Intertelecom renders services in over 4,000 settlements of Ukraine.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Intertelecom was the first nationwide CDMA operator in Ukraine. It provides local and mobile telephone services in the CDMA standard as well as wireless internet access.
Ukrainian citizen Viktor Hushan and Russian citizen Ilya Kazmaly founded Intertelecom.
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