August 18, 2006
Russia. Mobile Antitrust Case Started
Russian antitrust authorities began a case against the country’s top three mobile-phone companies for setting tariffs between themselves at a lower rate than for other competitors. The St Peterbsurg Times reports.
"The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has started the case after Mobile Telesystems, VimpelCom and MegaFon, the country’s three largest operators, set the tariff to terminate a call between them at 0.95 ruble ($0.04) and at 1.1 rubles for other operators, the service said in a statement posted on its web site Thursday. The watchdog will hear the case on Sept. 28."
"The “Big Three” companies together operate 86 percent of cellular phones in Russia, a country of 143 million people, where mobile-phone penetration reached 98.5 percent last month."
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