A Moscow Arbitration Court ordered the national regulator to issu...
A Moscow Arbitration Court ordered the national regulator to issue a license for providing mobile services in Russia’s Far East to the country’s 2nd-largest operator, VimpelCom. The court upheld a lawsuit that VimpelCom had filed against the Federal Service…
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for Communications, Rossvyaznador, which 35 times turned down VimpelCom’s request for the license. On Aug. 21, the same court is expected to consider a suit that VimpelCom filed against the State Radio Frequency Commission for failure to act on an antitrust ruling and issue the license to a VimpelCom subsidiary in Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. The antitrust regulator had ordered the commission to cancel its decision that rejected VimpelCom subsidiary’s application for radio frequencies and to reconsider the application. VimpelCom’s main competitors, mobile operators MTS and MegaFon, have licenses to operate in all the regions of the district. MegaFon is the only operator with a license covering all of Russia.