Gars

Russian operator Gars Telecom announced that its revenues grew by 22.7 percent to RUB 653.3 million in 2010. The company targets RUB 1 billion in revenues this year. Alternative services comprised 39 percent of revenues and were the main growth drivers. Alternative services include outsourcing of telecommunications services, telecommunications consulting, audits and integration projetcs. The operator focuses on providing universal telecommunications services for major corporate subscribers.

Gars Telecom managed to increase its revenue to 653.3 billion rubles (by 22,7%). The major growth was due to alternative services that rose up to 39% of operator’s annual revenue. Th company plans to increase its revenue to 1 milliard rubles in 2011.

The history of virtual operators in Russia started 10 years ago when Corbina Telecom started to sell telecom services using Vympelcom DAMPS network infrastructure. Now these companies have merged, and MVNO projects in Russia can hardly be called successful. The reasons of it hide in the fact that national operators, opposite to foreign colleagues, can’t stand competition and are not ready for infrastructure sharing.

Rebranding is becoming fashionable. The first to start talking about the need to update brands were the retailers. Recently, CRE has learned that in anticipation of market growth, more than 20 companies working in the real estate market, have decided to clean up and update their "signage".

The crisis did not bring significant changes to the corporate telecommunications market in Russia. Over the past two years, major telecom players have become more powerful. The key issue today is not an exclusive basis for entering this or that building, but rather more diversified services offered to successfully compete with other operators. The crisis often leads to the migration of tenants. This trend has become a real headache for many developers, but helped telecom companies find something to do until new construction starts.

Russian operator and integrator Gars Telecom announced that its revenues grew by 22.5 percent year-on-year to RUB 322.9 million in H1.

Russian mobile virtual network operators (MVNO), which received first licenses last year, have settled down with an active clients search in the B2B sector. At a positive glance at the perspective of MVNO development in Russian retail sector, national corporate market can bury idea of such networks, according to the most of the experts interviewed by Cnews.

Evgeniy Pickersgill, Gars Telecom commercial director is answering Cnews’ questions.

LTE – technology of high-speed mobile data transmission which is developed by several large carriers in the world - is burdened by a number of points at issue, which may influence its future. In Russian realia the most influence regarding this case can be exered by problems with radio frequencies and equipment.

Though the world IT-outsourcing market keeps recessing, the rate of recession is sufficiently low. In Russia IT-outsourcing market is still unripe. At the same time, against the strong falling of the Russian IT-market in general, the sector of outsourcing is growing, and, according to some experts, it has good prospects for a full-scale development under certain conditions. Roundtable “The present and the future of IT-outsourcing in Russia”, organized by CNews Analytics and CNews Conferences, concerned problems and prospects of Russian IT-outsourcing market.