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Armenia-based company obtains Crimea's new mobile operator K-Telecom
by Emmanuil Lazarian
Thursday, August 7, 01:26
Crimea's new mobile operator, K-Telecom, a company that came to
replace MTS-Ukraine, is owned by Armenia-based Cell Group Worldwide
Holding CJSC, reports Vedomosti, referring to Armenia's legal entities
registry.
According to the source, the Armenian company belongs to Cell Group
Worldwide Ltd, a company with unknown jurisdiction.
Just a week after its registration in Krasnodar in late May, K-Telecom
was given MTS's GSM frequencies in Crimea. The initial owner was
private travel consultant Anna Berezkina, followed by Nikolay Balashov
and finally Cell Group Worldwide Holding.
Vedomosti notes that MTS has K-Telecom subsidiaries in Armenia and
Russia but they in the company say that those operators have nothing
to do with the Crimean K-Telecom.
According to the source, K-Telecom has launched a one-way technical
roaming service for subscribers of Russian operators. So, the holders
of MTS sim-cards in Crimea will not be left without communication.
Referring to a source in a Russian operator, Vedomosti suggests that
the reason the company did it was to convince Russian operators to
sign roaming contracts with it.
According to iKS Consulting, as of late 2013 Crimea and Sevastopol had
2.97mln mobile service subscribers. 57% of them were subscribed to
MTS- Ukraine, 21% to Kyivstar (Ukrainian subsidiary of VimpelCom Ltd)
and 16% to Astelite Mobile (controlled by TurkCell).
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by Emmanuil Lazarian
Thursday, August 7, 01:26
Crimea's new mobile operator, K-Telecom, a company that came to
replace MTS-Ukraine, is owned by Armenia-based Cell Group Worldwide
Holding CJSC, reports Vedomosti, referring to Armenia's legal entities
registry.
According to the source, the Armenian company belongs to Cell Group
Worldwide Ltd, a company with unknown jurisdiction.
Just a week after its registration in Krasnodar in late May, K-Telecom
was given MTS's GSM frequencies in Crimea. The initial owner was
private travel consultant Anna Berezkina, followed by Nikolay Balashov
and finally Cell Group Worldwide Holding.
Vedomosti notes that MTS has K-Telecom subsidiaries in Armenia and
Russia but they in the company say that those operators have nothing
to do with the Crimean K-Telecom.
According to the source, K-Telecom has launched a one-way technical
roaming service for subscribers of Russian operators. So, the holders
of MTS sim-cards in Crimea will not be left without communication.
Referring to a source in a Russian operator, Vedomosti suggests that
the reason the company did it was to convince Russian operators to
sign roaming contracts with it.
According to iKS Consulting, as of late 2013 Crimea and Sevastopol had
2.97mln mobile service subscribers. 57% of them were subscribed to
MTS- Ukraine, 21% to Kyivstar (Ukrainian subsidiary of VimpelCom Ltd)
and 16% to Astelite Mobile (controlled by TurkCell).
http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=49A44730-1DB0-11E4-925F0EB7C0D21663