VimpelCom owner L1 takes stake in cloud business to boost internet strategy
Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s investment business LetterOne (L1) has made a strategic investment for an undisclosed sum in Qvantel, a Finnish cloud-based mobile ...
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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 ...
VimpelCom promotes Fabrizio Mambrini to CFO of Beeline Russia
VimpelCom’s Beeline Russia has named Fabrizio Mambrini as the company’s new CFO. He replaces Nikolay Ivanov, who became CEO in 2013 and has decided to pursue opportunities ...
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 ...
Executive Moves Round-up Issue 248
A collection of the latest executive appointments, promotions, and moves in the global telecoms space. This collection ran in TelecomFinance ...
Telenor’s withdrawal from VimpelCom resolves board issues – Mikhail Fridman
Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, whose LetterOne Holdings is the largest shareholder in VimpelCom, has said he is pleased Telenor has started ...
TIM issues €1bn bond for refinancing
Telecom Italia (TIM) has issued a €1bn (US$1.1bn) nine-year bond with a 3% coupon to optimise and refinancing upcoming debt maturities. ...
Beeline Uzbekistan poaches new CFO Sergei Cherepnin from Nokia, Beeline Russia CFO Nikolay Ivanov resigns
VimpelCom’s Uzbek subsidiary Unitel has named Sergei Cherepnin (pictured) as its new CFO. He replaces Roman Barannikov, who was appointed CFO in December 2014 and has left ...
Ooredoo denies Indosat sale
Qatari incumbent Ooredoo is not selling Indonesian telecoms and satellite operator Indosat Ooredoo, the company said in a statement. The announcement follows Bloomberg’s report ...
Comba Telecom buys 51% of ETL to enter Laos market
Hong Kong-based mobile infrastructure provider Comba Telecom Systems has announced that investment company Jiafu Holdings, in which Comba holds a 49% stake, has agreed to buy ...
