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MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, announces that it has won the GSM Association’s (“GSMA”) 15th Annual Global Mobile Award at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. MTS won the award in the “Best Billing & Customer Care Solution” category for its “Your Individual Optimal Tariff Plan” service. MTS is the first mobile operator from Russia and the CIS to be recognized with one of the most prestigious awards in the telecommunications industry.

Out There Media announces the signing of a partnership agreement with VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark). Within the framework of the agreement, Out There Media enables VimpelCom to offer targeted Mobile Advertising through Mobucks™, its multi-channel Mobile Advertising marketplace technology. In addition, Out There Media is also responsible for monetization, sales, business development and operations support.

Opera Software today announced that MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, will now provide a co-branded version of the Opera Mini browser for its subscribers, who will be able to download it on their mobile phones at mini.opera.com. Subscribers of MTS will get access to a customized Opera Mini start page when they download the browser on their mobile phones.

The start page will have default bookmarks which give MTS subscribers quick and easy access to music, videos and games as well as giving users the opportunity to purchase content directly from the browser.

Now in its 6th year, Eurasia Com conference and exhibition returns to Istanbul for 2 days of networking, learning and business development.  With 400 senior level attendees from operators, regulators, MVNOs ISPs, service providers and solutions and technology vendors from across the Caspian, Black Sea and Central Asia, this is a unique convergence of all that is communications in this growing market.

The activity of BAMBOO GROUP rendering innovative services in VAS market and mobile marketing field was extremely efficient. To compare with 2008 the amount of obtained profit doubled. New promising directions were discovered, the number of business partners rose.

BAMBOO GROUP in European markets

In the year 2009 BAMBOO GROUP in Belarus (STREAMLINE) continued to hold major positions keeping more than 50% of additional services market for itself. To compare with the previous year the amount of company’s profit has risen for more than 70%, ARPU year growth made up 9%. Last year STREAMLINE’s services were used by more than 2 mln. of unique users that is equal to 22% of all mobile subscribers of the Republic of Belarus.

Russian mobile game developer and publisher HeroСraft announced that 'Majesty', licensed by Paradox Interactive, will be their first iPad game release running in the full iPad resolution. The popular PC strategy title will be available on Java, Android and BlackBerry handsets first and follow on Apple's new flagship product soon after.

“We're impressed by the new Apple tablet device” said Alexey Sazonov, Sales and Marketing Director at HeroCraft, “we believe it will provide the ideal platform for gaming, filling the gap between traditional desktop and mobile phone devices.

Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Victor Saeijs' presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference. Victor Saeijs is Vice-President Sales Eurasia Nokia. Victor presents the new SDK with Ovi Maps integration for mobile developers and explains why Nokia stepped into mobile internet-based services market.

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Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Ivar van Dijk presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference “Driving scale through bundling: Strategies for delivering mobile entertainment”.

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We'd like to share the video of Antti Viitanen presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference "What’s next for mobile data?".

Antti Viitanen is director of Digia company. Antti Viitanen is responsible for Digia's international products. Before joining Digia, Antti has worked for 10 years in mobile operator & mobile service industries and 10 years in media industry. He worked for AlmaMedia, Yahoo! Mobile, TeliaSonera and RealNetworks occupying various management positions.


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Russian WiMAX network operator Yota has announced the test run of the mobile broadband 4th-generation Internet access network in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. The Yota network was rolled out in record time — in three months since the beginning of construction.

During the press conference attended by representatives of WiMAX Forum, Intel and Samsung, the strategic partners of Yota, journalists were told about the project and its perspectives in details. Ricardo Olarte, Northern Cone General Manager of Intel, said that «the broadband penetration in Latin America is very low, and is the reason why the initiative taken by Nicaragua will allow a significant leap in the adoption of new technologies placing the country at the forefront and generating a positive effect in people and businesses to improve the competitiveness of it».