Kyrgyzstan
Companies
Turk Telecom has placed a bid for the 78% stake held by the Kyrgyzstan government in national fixed-line operator Kyrgyztelecom, reports Reuters. In July 2008, Kyrgyzstan announced...
2008-08-28Companies
Vimpel Communications' (VimpelCom) subsidiary in Kazakhstan, KaR-Tel, has signed an agreement to assist in operating and managing the network of Sky Mobile, owner of the largest...
2008-04-18Industry
According to our recent report on the telecoms markets of Central Asia, BMI ranks Uzbekistan as by far the most attractive telecoms market for potential investors. Intense competition...
2007-06-15Companies
Russian mobile operator MTS has written off the US$150mn that it paid for Kyrgyzstan's Bitel in 2005. MTS has said that it will seek indemnities and has already filed a lawsuit against...
2007-03-08Companies
Like all incumbent fixed-line operators in Central Asia, Kyrgyztelecom is controlled by the government. The state directly holds a 77.84% stake in the monopoly operator, with a further...
2006-12-15Companies
The legal wrangling over Kyrgyzstan's leading mobile operator Bitel has taken a new turn, following an arbitration court ruling that three subsidiaries of Russian mobile company MTS...
2006-12-05Companies
The telecoms sector in Central Asia is of particular interest to BMI, and to Russia's largest operators. After a few years of spectacular growth earlier in the decade, the Russian...
2006-10-31Companies
Central Asia appears to be a land of opportunity for operators seeking to escape Europe's stagnating mobile markets. With an average mobile penetration rate of less than 12% in 2005,...
2006-09-25
