Valery Yashin
Valery Yashin
among companies competition lead migration mobile observe operators regional services traffic trend
I think we will observe a trend of mobile services replacing fixed-line services (in Russia). This trend would lead to the migration of long-distance traffic from regional fixed-line companies to mobile operators. In addition, competition among regional fixed-line operators for generated long-distance traffic will increase.
company exceeded figures financial general good sales
I think that in general the company showed good results, and some financial figures (net profit, sales profit) even exceeded our targets.
investment main market position strengthen task
Our main task is to strengthen our position on the market through investment in the development of new services.
affect business companies eventually flexible implement monopoly tariff
Our companies have monopoly status, which does not let them implement flexible tariff policy. And eventually it will affect their business efficiency.
access additional base clients experience growth multimedia russian shows subscriber traffic
The Russian and international experience shows that traditional fixed-line telephony development has been exhausted. In particular, traffic growth has been decelerating recently, so too has subscriber base growth. Clients need additional opportunities, such as high-speed access to the Internet, videoconferencing, multimedia applications and fixed-mobile convergence.
access allow beneficial capital conditions create factor hope investment major minimize regional system
We hope that the system will not only allow us to minimize losses, but will be a major factor in the investment attractiveness of regional operators, and will create beneficial conditions to access world capital markets.
assume competition firstly major markets mobile operators regional remain russian segments
We assume that in some segments (rural communications) and regional markets (remote districts) we remain monopolists. But there are markets where competition with mobile and alternative fixed-line operators is very high. And these are firstly major Russian cities.