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Rostelecom cuts charges in the face of competition (Russia)

  • February 11th, 2008
  • 1:32 pm

The Russian long-distance operator Rostelecom has cut its call charges in the face of increasing competition. The former long-distance monopoly says prices could fall by as much as 30% for daytime inter-city calls, while regular customers in Moscow could even see reductions of up to 50% for calls from the capital to the regions, according to a report from the St Petersburg Times. ‘The reduction in the rate was made possible because of structural changes in the cost of international calls, Rostelecom chief executive Konstantin Solodukhin said in a statement. Rival firms such as Golden Telecom, MTT, Transtelecom and Synterra are slowly beginning to eat away at Rostelecom’s market share, while VoIP telephony services are also hitting long-distance traffic.

   

 

Russia to get fourth LD operator

  • July 22nd, 2007
  • 6:30 pm

Russia’s TransTeleCom has announced that it is shortly to launch its first long-distance services and hopes to have captured up to 15% of the business long-distance market and 5% of the residential market by 2010. TransTeleCom will become the country’s fourth long-distance operator, joining former monopoly Rostelecom and two new market entrants: Interregional Transit Telecom (MTT) and Golden Telecom.

Meanwhile, Rostelecom has reported a 49% rise in 2006 net profit, boosted by an increase in traffic. Net profits rose from RUB980 million (USD36 million) in 2005 to RUB1.46 billion last year, while revenues were up around 50% to RUB61.6 billion (USD2.26 billion). State-controlled telecoms holding company Svyazinvest has a 50.67% stake in Rosetelecom.

   

 

NTT, TransTeleCom to build undersea data link

  • February 28th, 2007
  • 4:18 pm

Telecompaper writes…Japan’s NTT Com and Russian operator TransTeleCom have agreed to build an undersea data link between their two countries. The memorandum of understanding for the Hokkaido-Sakhalin Cable System (HSCS) agrees to a 500 km high-capacity fiber-optic cable that will transmit data at up to 640 Gbps between Ishikari, Hokkaido in Japan and Nevelsk, Sakhalin in Russia, based around DWDM technology. The project will be completed by the end of 2007. The cable will link up with TransTeleCom’s transcontinental optical route along the SIberian railway connecting to Europe. The new route will also function as a rerouting network for the existing route that connects Japan and Europe via the Indian Ocean, providing extra backup in the event of a probable disaster like an earthquake. NTT Com and TransTeleCom already signed an agreement last October to interconnect the two companies’ MPLS networks, IP Transit and International Private Line.