"Sky Link" in Russia: the change of image and the shift to non-voice services

C shift to the principle of CPP (Calling Party Pays - CPP) and all the free incoming calls to the company "Skylink" was in a difficult situation. The traditional perception of the market operator - especially relatively cheap unlimited connection. For which many users were willing to put up with a number of disadvantages: in fact, a complete lack of international roaming very poor selection of expensive terminals, problems with coverage outside of Moscow and Moscow region. With the advent of a heavy fee for interconnect (95 cents per minute) to focus on this category of consumers has been difficult, as subscribers of Sky Link's talk on the phone is traditionally a lot more often and call themselves than accept incoming calls. Which inevitably reduces the profitability of "heavy" a lot of speaking subscribers.

Mac Bag

Solely on their own for some time I spent finding on the special bags for the MacBook, given the fact that the hands were and Air, and Pro (for different purposes), I find them under some specific "odezhku. Running through the sites, visiting some of the "real" and not a virtual ground, it was understood that "Poppy" is a galaxy of their bags, which for some reason it is suited for this brand. You must understand that this is simply marketing tricks, as the MacBook or MacBook Pro will suit absolutely any Notebook covers, bags, backpacks and so on, just to size fit. Especially, having studied range, found interesting in terms of lining on the body, like plastic and leather (talk about this some other time), there are a number of unique materials and design case (also separately discuss), well Here are some bags of any special or not. I wanted something equally ascetic-elegant, as are the cars, well-planned, high quality. As a result, have found. Oddly enough, he found, thanks to one man, who was on a visit last fall, he even then showed off a brand new very 'pro', imported from the U.S., and that bag he received as a gift. Recalled, search, find, and now tell you.

MegaFon: first results of the CPP (Calling Party Pays)

The eleventh of December in the central office of MegaFon press conference was held simultaneously in Moscow and seven other cities in Russia (teleconference). Theme - the first results of introduction of CPP and the immediate prospects of the company.

Corbina-Telecom: Preliminary results of attempts to capture the Moscow broadband market

Exactly one year ago, Corbina Telecom has announced a fairly ambitious plans for mastering the Moscow broadband market. It was promised to gather journalists through the year and show results. We must pay tribute to the leadership of the company: collected and demonstrated. Despite the fact that the results have not all coincided with forecasts of a year ago.

"Beeline": "crimson" Raiffeisen Bank and the quiet demise of the project VISA-beebonus

From late November the site bonus program "Malina" suddenly blossomed advertising a new partner - from December this year, Raiffeisen offers its customers a program to get credit card bank. And vice versa: Order in the Raiffeisen credit card "Malina" automatically becomes a member of the same name of the program. Immediately arose foreboding about the fate of a joint project VISA-beebonus ("Archive" and "Rosbank"). Premonitions, unfortunately, is not deceived: widely advertised an expensive project lasted less than two and a half years. However, first things first.

Year The year 2006: CPP, new technology and the official start of 3G networks

The outgoing year may well be regarded as a milestone by finally entered into force the laws of "all free incoming calls" or CPP (Calling Party Pays - Paying the caller). Actively developing new technologies, all operators of the "big three" engaged in deployment of high speed data EDGE. The number of sold and nominally active SIM-cards in Russia exceeded 100% and continues to grow, and GSM-operators have focused their efforts on expanding its presence in the regions and abroad. By the end of the year there was a long-awaited distribution of licenses for the deployment of third generation networks (3G), we can now talk about the projected timing of launch systems fragments 3G. Another significant event - go to the billing in euro, VAT. In the Moscow region, MegaFon has completely passed the ruble since the first day of January, Beeline chose to do so with caution and gradually (by introducing new ruble TA), the MTS stretched with the transition until the New Year, but now are going to count in U.S. Dollars all existing tariffs. Increasingly falls into the newswires MGTS: no increase in costs, digitization PBX, new services and joint projects with MTS. Dramatically escalated competition on the Moscow market, operators are no longer embarrassed to openly poach each other's subscribers. Interesting year, next, is likely to be boring. Briefly recall the most interesting.

MTS held another hidden price increase

Recent years with falling ARPU as operators in Russia are trying to complicate the tariff plans, so subscribers do not always see hidden fees here and "forgetfulness" in the VAT in the past, and other clever tricks. It would seem that the market is satisfied, the penetration of communication cheerfully passed for 100 percent in Moscow, and the operators have become, if not crystal honestly, do not allow direct consumer fraud. However, the struggle for the leadership can not be bloodless, and MTS, trying to emerge from the crisis, goes to the various tricks that are designed to solve very different problems.