VimpelCom to sell 13,000 towers in Russia for US$700m
VimpelCom’s Russian unit Beeline has agreed to sell 13,000 telecoms towers to Russian Towers for US$700m, TelecomFinance understands. The two parties have already inked the ...
Tag: MegaFon
Megafon to pay US$740m for a controlling stake in Mail.ru to become ‘digital convergence leader’
Megafon‘s board has approved the acquisition of a majority voting stake in local internet group Mail.ru for US$740m from billionaire Alisher Usmanov, ...
Telia in management overhaul as it refocuses on core markets, poaches Telenor’s Stein-Erik Vellan to head Finish unit
Swedish telco Telia’s Norwegian and Finnish operations will come under group executive management from 1 January in a restructuring designed to aid ...
Megafon and Mail.ru confirm talks, telco could take stake in internet company
Russian telco Megafon has confirmed that it is in talks with local internet group Mail.ru that could see it become a shareholder ...
Executive Moves Round-up Issue 249
A collection of the latest executive appointments, promotions, and moves in the global telecoms space. This collection ran in TelecomFinance ...
Vlad Wolfson appointed head of MegaFon’s merged consumer business and corporate business development departments
Russian telco Megafon has announced that its COO Evgeny Chermashentsev and director for consumer business Konstantin Likhodedov have tendered their ...
Megafon plans towerco spinoff
Russian telco Megafon’s board of directors has called an EGM of shareholders on 16 September to approve the spinoff of its wholly-owned subsidiary First Tower ...
Tele2 Russia wants up to Rbs25bn for towers
T2 RTC Holding, which trades as Tele2 Russia, is reportedly in talks with potential buyers of its tower portfolio, aiming ...
Megafon increases RCF to Rbs50bn, signs new Rbs30bn facility
Russian telco Megafon has agreed with VTB to extend the maturity of a revolving credit facility established in 2012 to 2023 and increase the ...
Megafon closes book for Rbs10bn bond
Russian telco Megafon has closed the book for its Rbs10bn (US$149m) 10-year bond offering, launched in late April. CFO Gevork Vermishyan commented: ...
