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Year 2007 was the year of the telecom industry consolidation. By far the single largest merger shook the mobile operators’ status quo. Mikhail Fridman, Alfa Group’s owner, which holds a large stake in VimpelCom, blessed a deal to buy Golden Telecom, one of the largest Russian alternative fixed line providers. The deal, which is worth USD 4.3 billion, created the first Russian mega mobile-fixed player. VimpelCom, the number two Russian mobile operator, which provides mobile services to over 65 million subscribers in Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Georgia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, decided to diversify its services into providing mobile broadband. Golden Telecom, which is traded on the NASDAQ and holds a large chunk of the Russian Internet, voice and data market, seems to be satisfied. In the meantime, Golden Telecom has announced that it plans to invest over USD 1 billion to expand its fiber-optic network to cover the territory with population of 65 million.
Broadband Internet continued to be the key driver of the telecom market. Nation-wide ADSL has remained one of the fastest growing segments of the broadband market. However, despite the dominance of DSL, wireless services over Wi-Fi or WiMAX connections are rapidly emerging as a cost-effective alternative to DSL. By the end of 2007, broadband penetration in Russia was estimated at 3.2%.
If you’re coming up to the end of your contract or if you’ve been with the same broadband provider for over 12 months then the chances are you can move to another supplier at zero cost.
The key benefits of switching broadband providers is to increase speed and / or reduce monthly costs (And if you want to see what a difference increased speed makes why not see Broadband Speed) Not only that, many Broadband suppliers now offer value added services such as free wireless broadband routers to new customers.
A word of warning though. If you just cancel you’re existing service and take out a new broadband contract then you’ll end up without Broadband for several days at the least. You wouldn’t do this with a mobile phone after all would you?
However Switching Broadband providers is a simple process, as the majority of the main Broadband providers have signed up to a code of practice which is designed to make the process of changing Broadband suppliers as easy as possible.
Communication Ministry announced that during the first nine months of 2007 over 6,000 km of international communication cables were built, which is a 48.5% year-on-year growth. Led by liberalized long distance market and explosive growth of traffic transit market as well as new regulations requiring new operators to build their own networks nation-wide, operators invested heavily into the infrastructure upgrades.
One of the year’s major highlights in the carrier market segment was the launch of the new undersea fiber optical cable system between Russia and Japan by TransTeleCom and NTT Communications (NTT Com). This new 570 km DWDM network has a capacity of 640 Gbit/s and has great potential for expansion of Eurasian traffic. According to CNews, the NGN market in Russia will be about $1.5 billion in 2009.
Mobile operators surprised analysts with peaking ARPU numbers. In fact, the ARPU of VimpleCom and MTS showed very high growth compared to that of Western operators. The whole market surpassed USD 22 billion in 2007, while operators continue to invest into the network expansion. In 2012 mobile Internet services are predicted to bring some 10% of all revenues of mobile operators of the mobile service segment, or about $3.4 billion, according to MTS CEO Leonid Melamed
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