In the Crimea in mid-June will be a new mobile operator “CTC Telecom, which will provide services under the brand name Volna Mobile. About it writes on Wednesday “Kommersant”.
New Crimean operator “CTC Telecom” in late April, received a permit for the operation of the core network on the Peninsula and plans to begin adding commercial subscribers in mid-June. The operator will operate under the brand Volna Mobile.
According to the head of the company Dmitry Klimenko, while the operator was allowed to use a 40 objects of the network in Sevastopol, but in may they expect to obtain “a large number of permissions across the Peninsula. “CTC Telecom has built a support network in the Crimea, but the radio system will lease from another Crimean operator “K-Telecom”.
Klimenko explained that because of an agreement with a competitor about RAN-sharing – joint use of radio access networks, managed to save time for the start of the project. Investment in the project he did not disclose, but noted that the payments “K-Telecom” for allocated capacity of the radio network make up a significant portion of the costs of the company. In the future, “CTC Telecom expects to negotiate with “K-Telecom and spectrum sharing (frequency sharing).
Chief of the communications and information technology of the government of Sevastopol Vadim Diachenko said that “CTC Telecom signed a roaming agreement with “Setelementvalue”, a joint venture company “progress holding” and state-owned enterprises Sevtelekom. In the Crimea are also “K-Telecom” (renders services throughout the Peninsula; the brand Win Mobile), “Krymtelekom” (everywhere except Sevastopol), and CDMA-operator “Intertelekom” (everywhere), the newspaper reminds.
