Tight-lipped Russians prove challenge for mobile phone operator
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Russia's top mobile phone operator MTS  , hopes to convince customers to get over their  reticence to talk and text, executives said on Monday.
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Russia is trying to collect back taxes from wireless telecommunications company Vimpel.
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Competitors say the industry leader, Nokia, is still vulnerable to the vagaries of the cellphone business, with its fickle consumers and aggressive challengers.
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Mobile phone companies in Europe must start offering cheaper rates to their customers using phones abroad.
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Russian security firm is the latest to offer a product for mobile devices, a huge potential market.
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A form of dogfighting has thrived in Russia, cementing local legitimacy and gaining new followers.
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MOSCOW Vimpel-Communications, Russia&#39;s No.2 mobile phone company behind Mobile TeleSystems, was hit Wednesday with a surprise claim of $157.8 million in back taxes, prompting fears of another Yukos-style tax investigation.
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Tensions among the Russians are on the increase as they compete for trophies, commercial opportunities and visibility.
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Russiaâs Federal Tax Service has presented the countryâs second largest mobile operator VimpelCom with tax claims for 2001. The total amount of claims including fines and penalties is 4.4 billion rubles ($157 million).
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Investor's Business Daily - To hear Mobile TeleSystems tell it, every man, woman and child in Russia has a cell phone in hand.
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Jens F. Laurson and George A. Pieler explain why cell phone roaming charges in Europe remain stuck in the stratosphere.
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Despite company's attempts to make life harder for the unlocking community, the number of unlocked iPhones appears to be soaring.
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MTS' cell-phone churn in Ukraine leaps into the double digits.
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MOSCOW -- When a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia erupted in explosions last month, viewers who rushed to turn on state-run Channel 1 were treated to a film, ''Lady with a Parrot.&quot; They wouldn't have fared much better on Channel 2, which stuck to a travelogue.
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Free and open debate has become a rarity  in Russia's media which is mostly controlled by the state or  business moguls.
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In many poor and emerging countries, the lack of banking infrastructure but widespread use of mobile phones has created a business opportunity that network operators are keen to exploit.
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By Goh Thean Eu  MALAYSIAN mobile operators, now operating in a highly competitive environment, are likely to experiment heavily on new contents and solutions to promote growth.