Moscow

MegaFon

It is a ready to use virtual data center with a management portal, data storage system, internal network and a possibility to connect communications channels.

The service includes daily backup copying, 3 days storage time, antivirus software and technical support. The service infrastructure complies with personal data security levels 3 and 4.

datastorage

Megafon Virtual data storage and processing center

Telecom operator MegaFon and Moscow-based private equity company Kismet Capital Group have agreed to create an independent tower infrastructure operator on the basis of Tower One (subsidiary of MegaFon) and Vertical (operator controlled by Kismet Capital Group).

 
 The new structure will unite 17 thousand towers and support structures of the Tower One, as well as more than 5 thousand Vertical’s facilities, and may become the largest independent player with more than 22 thousand towers.

 
 MegaFon's share in the merged company will be 25%. Kismet Capital Group will receive more than 65% and will have five out of seven representatives on the board of directors (the remaining two will be for MegaFon). It is assumed that neither MegaFon nor any other telecom operator will be able to gain control over the new structure. Еhe deal will be closed presumably by the end of 2021.

 
 As Forbes previously <a href="https://www.forbes.ru/tehnologii/436635-vertikal-ivana-tavrina-i-megafon-vyvedut-na-amerikanskuyu-birzhu-obedinennuyu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reported</a>, that Tower One and Vertical were planning to create an independent company that will go public on the American stock exchange.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/megafon-peredal-bashennye-aktivy-nezavisimomu-operatoru/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Megafon

MegaFon Transfers its Tower Assets to an Independent Operator

The ministry plans to reduce the number of fraudulent calls by 50% by the end of next year, as well as block up to 80% of fraudulent resources within 24 hours.

 
 As the ministry clarified, in order to achieve these goals, they intend to automate the collection, analysis and transmission of information to authorized bodies to make a decision on the subsequent blocking of phishing sites. “We must learn to very quickly block phishing sites: a day is the maximum period, ideally the work should take six to eight hours,” the Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev said.

 
 Data collection will be carried out by the ministry. Russian companies in the field of cybersecurity will also be involved in the action. In addition, the operators' antispam systems will exchange data on the numbers used by fraudsters. In this case, the time for blocking a single phone number will be significantly reduced.

 
 Tele2 said that at the beginning of 2020, they have already implemented an "anti-fraud platform to combat spoofed numbers that are used by fraudsters to deceive bank customers." A similar MTS system daily blocks more than 60 thousand attempts to make calls from a dummy number. MegaFon blocks potentially fraudulent calls with the substitution of bank numbers according to the Central Bank lists.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/chislo-moshennicheskikh-zvonkov-do-kontsa-2022-goda-planiruiut-snizit-vdvoe/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Kommersant

Ministry of Digital Development to Halve the Number of Fraudulent Phone Calls by the End of 2022

The <a href="https://amr.ru/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Association of Managers</a> and the Kommersant Publishing House have released an annual rating of the top 50 Russian IT directors by industry and business as part of “Top 1000 Russian Managers” ranking.

 
 The top three CIOs in the IT sector include Maxim Shahab from Kaspersky Lab, Alexander Filatov from Lanit, and Marina Konova from CROC.

 
 The telecom category includes Viktor Belov from MTS, Grigory Savenok from MegaFon, Aleksey Berzin from Transtelecom, and Anton Rubenchik from Beeline. 

 
 As the authors of the rating note, the CIO category this year came out on top in terms of the share of new names (58%).

 
 <a href="https://t.me/ICT_Moscow/5107" target="_blank">Original (in Russian)</a>

List of Top 50 Russian CIOs Compiled

Russian Internet companies, telecom operators and media holdings will sign an agreement on voluntary commitments to protect children on the Internet on September 1. According to Vedomosti, the document will be signed by nine companies, including Yandex, Mail.ru Group, Kaspersky Lab, MTS, Beeline, MegaFon, Rostelecom, Gazprom-Media and National Media Group. At the same time, it is possible that foreign services may also join the list.

 
 The document consists of 10 points. In particular, companies undertake to independently find and remove content that is undesirable for children and improve tools for their protection, increase children's digital literacy, develop international cooperation in this area, etc.

 
 The interlocutor of the publication said that these companies will actually comply with the legal requirements for self-regulation of social networks. The purpose of the document is to achieve the removal of illegal content by the companies themselves, and not through its entry by Roskomnadzor, Russian regulatory body, into the relevant register.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/it-i-telekom-kompanii-podpishut-dokument-po-zashchite-detej-v-internete/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian) </a>

Vedomosti

Russian IT and Telecom Companies to Sign a Document on Child-Protecting on the Internet

In its <a href="https://corp.megafon.com/ai/document/12146/file/MEGAFON_2021_Q2_IFRS_FS_ENG.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">report</a> for the second quarter of the year 2021, Russia’s second-largest telecom operator MegaFon estimated the value of its shares (24 billion shares, 24.3% of the capital) in AliExpress Russia at $1.6 billion (119.7 billion rubles). Thus, the fair value of AliExpress Russia in mid-2021 might amount to $6.7 billion (492.6 billion rubles), according to RBC newspaper.

 
 AliExpress Russia was founded in 2019 as a joint venture based on the Russian assets of the Chinese retail company Alibaba. At the time, MegaFon indicated that the value of its stake in the joint venture was $490 million (35.9 billion rubles), with the entire AliExpress Russia's valuation at around $2 billion (147.7 billion rubles). Thus, the company might have shown a three-fold growth since 2019 based on the information from MegaFon's report, RBC reports.

 
 In early August of this year, MegaFon <a href="https://www.telecompaper.com/news/megafon-sells-stake-in-aliexpress-to-shareholder-usm-report--1393219" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sold</a> its share in AliExpress Russia to the company's main shareholder, USM Group headed by Alisher Usmanov. Now the shareholders of AliExpress Russia are Alibaba (47.8%), USM (24.3%), Mail Group (15%), as well as Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) together with venture partners from Middle East (12.8%).

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/smi-stoimost-aliexpress-russia-mozhet-dostigat-493-mlrd-rublei/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

MegaFon Estimates its Share in AliExpress Russia at $1.6 Billion

LegalApe 2.8 is based on neural networks using data arrays that include judicial practice, business correspondence, scientific works and legal position of lawyers. Chatbot answers questions, provides comments and participates in debate using the information from regulatory legal acts.



Arrays of data about about judicial practice, business correspondence, scientific works and legal position of lawyers were used for neural network training. The bot answers the questions and provides commentary based on the information from regulatory legal acts and various authoritative source.

chatbots

artificial_intelligence

neural_networks

LegalApe 2.8

The service is aimed at protecting telephone conversations from tapping in GSM 900/1800 mobile networks.

The confidentiality is provided by speech encryption using special telephone sets.

The voice is transmitted in private mode using asynchronous data transmission channel BS-26.

Service for telephone conversations protection from tapping

telecommunications_operators

telephony

security

encryption

Confidential mobile communications

The service is based on FMC technology (Fixed Mobile Convergence), which created a single network of short mobile and office numbers. 

 The main automatic telephone station of the client company can be integrated with MegaFon network for calls to short numbers. Mobile numbers are integrated into the company’s single telephone networks, as if they were connected directly in automatic telephone exchange.

Service for connecting the employees phone numbers to the corporate telephone network

Express-Dial (FMC)

Exonum

Software for decentralized data storage based on blockchain technology

big_data

blockchain

Exonum CIS

Kaspersky_Lab

The solution for data center protection is integrated with data center infrastructure, providing security and maintaining high performance.
Kaspersky Security solution for virtual environments provides security to the most popular virtualization platforms. It supports VMware vSphere with NSX, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and KVM. All protection functions can be managed from one console.

Flexible solution for  protection of hybrid data centers

cybersecurity

Security for data centers

Beeline

The services of Virtual data center include DRaaS (Disaster Recovery), BackUp, “1C” and “Highload” systems deployment and Asterisk universal infrastructure for cloud PBX. BeeCLOUD technological capabilities include a network of data centers certified in accordance with TIER-III/TIA-942. Special clusters for 1C infrastructure are allocated to data centers.

The platform is connected to the federal IP MPLS network “Vimpelcom”. Geographically dispersed Multi-Cloud platform is based on VMware, Hyper-V and Openstack (KVM) technologies, which provides a range of possibilities: from “infrastructure-as-code” solutions for developers to deploying high load systems in Enterprise cloud and organizing multi-master topology for mission-critical business systems.

For SMEs BeeCLOUD SME version is available.

cloud_computing

telecom

BeeCLOUD

Rostelecom

It is a service for leasing National cloud platform’s computing power to deploy clients information system.

The service provides flexible configurations for virtual machines (any OS and any configuration), possible virtualization platforms are Windows Azure Pack (Hyper-V hypervisor by Microsoft), VMware ESXi or KVM.

There are two ways of managing data storage and processing center: a simple panel for business users and additional tools for system administrators.

In addition, the service provides a customizable tool for monitoring the virtual infrastructure with SMS or e-mail notifications, load balancing, DNS management, access to virtual infrastructure via VPN, protection from DDoS attacks and backupping.

Virtual data storage and processing center