ROSTELECOM PLANS ACQUISITIONS OUTSIDE RUSSIA, KOMMERSANT REPORTS JANUARY 13, 2012, 1:58 AM EST
By Ilya Khrennikov
Bloomberg / Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-13/rostelecom-plans-acquisitions-outside-russia-kommersant-reports.html
Jan 13 2012
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- OAO Rostelecom plans to buy stakes in network
service and Internet providers in Armenia in the state-controlled
telecommunications company~Rs first acquisitions outside Russia,
Kommersant said, citing people it didn~Rt name.
Rostelecom plans to spend $22.5 million to buy 75 percent of GNC-Alfa,
the owner of 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) of fiber- optic network in
Armenia and is looking at internet provider Ucom in the former Soviet
republic, Kommersant said. The acquisitions would give Rostelecom 13
percent of Armenia~Rs broadband Internet market, the newspaper said.
From: Baghdasarian
By Ilya Khrennikov
Bloomberg / Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-13/rostelecom-plans-acquisitions-outside-russia-kommersant-reports.html
Jan 13 2012
Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- OAO Rostelecom plans to buy stakes in network
service and Internet providers in Armenia in the state-controlled
telecommunications company~Rs first acquisitions outside Russia,
Kommersant said, citing people it didn~Rt name.
Rostelecom plans to spend $22.5 million to buy 75 percent of GNC-Alfa,
the owner of 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) of fiber- optic network in
Armenia and is looking at internet provider Ucom in the former Soviet
republic, Kommersant said. The acquisitions would give Rostelecom 13
percent of Armenia~Rs broadband Internet market, the newspaper said.
From: Baghdasarian