AFK Sistema plans to invest in Sputnix and launch up to 100 small space vehicles for various purposes within two years.

 
 Alexey Katkov, the managing partner at AFK Sistema, notes that it costs around $135,700 (10 million rubles) to launch a spacecraft into orbit, and the market cost of producing such a satellite is nearly the same. The total cost of creating 100 space vehicles can reach $27,180 (2 billion rubles).

 
 Currently, Sputnix operates three of its own vehicles in orbit, in 2022 the company plans to increase the number of space vehicles to 22. Based on its own satellites, the company intends to develop a satellite Internet of Things service with the ability to send SMS from stationary or mobile objects.

 
 Alexey Katkov notes that the company will also create a marketplace where it will provide the results of remote sensing of the Earth. The platform will be targeted at government customers and representatives of the private sector.

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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alexey.katkov.942" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Alexey Katkov</a>, Managing Partner, AFK Sistema

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Vedomosti

AFK Sistema to Launch 100 Small Satellites within Two Years

More than half of Russian companies (65%) expect their cybersecurity budgets to increase next year, according to a study by the consulting company PwC.

 
 Russian companies more often than foreign ones note the importance of cybersecurity as a competitive advantage. 19% of the respondents think so. Another 13% attribute this parameter to the sources of the company's growth in the market.

 
 According to 22% of respondents, the main targets of hackers are mobile devices, the Internet of Things and cloud services. Ransomware is a concern of 21%.

 
 Less than half (48%) of companies surveyed in Russia and 40% in the world, according to the study, fully understand the risk of data leakage through third parties, using a formalized organization risk assessment system.

 
 According to the <a href="https://rt-solar.ru/upload/iblock/f86/Issledovanie-Narusheniya-dostupa-v-rossiyskikh-kompaniyakh-sayt.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">research</a> carried out by Rostelecom-Solar, more than 70% of Russian companies record violations related to access to information systems. In half of the cases, according to respondents, this leads to leakage of confidential information.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/issledovanie-65-rossiiskikh-kompanii-ozhidaiut-uvelicheniia-biudzhetov-na-kiberbezopasnost-v-2022-godu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Inc.Russia

65% of Russian Companies Expect an Increase in Cybersecurity Budgets in 2022

The main trends in the field of next-generation communications in 2021

ICT.Moscow

6G: Global Standards vs. Fragmented Ecosystems

Since the beginning of 2021, 35% of Russian companies have faced targeted attacks, when attackers monitored the level of cyber protection of a company and then selected the tool for attacks. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to the information from Kaspersky Lab.

 
 According to company analysts, data leaks from internal systems, as well as leaks caused by malware attacks, are the most costly. This list of the most costly issues also includes: misuse of IT resources by employees, non-compliance with internal information security policies, and DDoS attacks. According to the survey conducted by IBM Security, on average, each data breach costs companies $4.24 million.

 
 Currently, there are no unified statistics on the number of cases of cyber fraud and the amount of damage to companies and citizens in Russia. According to Sergey Zolotukhin, computer forensics coach of Group-IB, the information collected by departments often does not coincide and does not show the whole picture due to the fact that the victims of the ransomware programs do not always report attacks and ransom payments, and also refuse to write police reports.

 
 The calculation methods also differ. Ekaterina Kilyusheva, head of the Information Security Analytics Research Group of Positive Technologies, notes that one company can count mass phishing mailings as one attack, and another company - as several separate attacks, and both of these approaches will be correct.

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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sergey.zolotukhin.9" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sergey Zolotukhin</a>, trainer in computer forensics at Group-IB

 
 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ekilyusheva" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ekaterina Kilyusheva</a>, Head of the Information Security analytics group at Positive Technologies

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/bolee-treti-rossiiskikh-kompanii-stolknulis-v-tselenapravlennymi-atakami-v-2021-godu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

More than a Third of Russian Companies Face Targeted Attacks in 2021

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) satisfied the request of the Infrastructure Integrator (controlled by Kismet Capital Group) to acquire the independent tower operator Russian Towers (controlled by UFG Private Equity). The parties agreed on key parameters, details will be announced after the transaction is closed.

 
 KCG's plans to acquire Russian Towers became known in early November. Then the deal was estimated at $342,7 million (25 billion rubles). At the same time, in October, KCG and MegaFon agreed to create an independent tower infrastructure operator based on the Tower One Company (a subsidiary of MegaFon) and the operator Vertikal (controlled by KCG). It is planned to close the deal by the end of this year. Taking into account all the agreements, KCG can unite 29 thousand objects.

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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100072735932622" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Vyacheslav Nikolaev</a>, President of MTS

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 MTS also intends to sell its tower asset. According to the president of the company Vyacheslav Nikolaev, "active negotiations" are already underway. Potential buyers have not been named, but according to Kommersant, there are two main contenders for this asset: Service-Telecom and Kismet Capital Group.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/fas-odobrila-sdelku-kismet-po-priobreteniiu-russkikh-bashen/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Kommersant

FAS Approves Kismet's Acquisition of Russian Towers

According to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the creation of a 5G network in the capital will begin in 2022.

 
 “The comfort on the streets of Moscow is not limited to the physical environment. In parallel, we have deployed an extensive free Wi-Fi network and starting next year, the city will begin to build a 5G network together with cellular operators, which opens up fundamentally new opportunities for the provision of digital services," the Mayor said at the "Russia Forum: Driving the Future" as part of Expo-2020 in Dubai.

 
 At the end of May, the mayor of the capital <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/sergei-sobyanin-5g-will-be-tested-in-the-moscow-metro/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">announced</a> the start of testing the fifth-generation communication technology in the Moscow metro. The details of the project were not disclosed at that time.

 
 In July, the State Commission for Radio Frequencies <a href="https://digital.gov.ru/ru/documents/7973/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rejected</a> the application of the Rostelecom for obtaining frequencies of 3.4-3.8 GHz for testing 5G in the metro. However, in October, Forbes <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/moscow-telecoms-may-get-4-3-8-ghz-frequencies-for-5g-used-by-the-military/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reported</a> that the government was discussing the issue of transferring the 3.4-3.8 GHz range for the deployment of 5G networks by cellular operators in Moscow.

 
 

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Moscow 24

Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin: 5G to be Launched in the City in 2022

Sberbank has created a smart media speaker SberBox Time. The date of the start of speaker sales has not been specified, the press office of the company states.

 
 The speaker has a built-in voice assistant Salute, which can be used to control smart home devices. Inside the speaker, there are five microphones that help the device recognize voice commands and two speakers for playing voice and music. Company experts claim that SberBox Time combines the functions of three devices: a speaker, a set-top box and a mechanical analog clock.

 
 According to the information from Just AI and Canalys, 800 thousand smart speakers were sold in Russia last year. More than 85% of the devices sold were speakers with Alice - a virtual assistant developed by Yandex.

 
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Sberbank

Sberbank Presents SberBox Time Smart Speaker

The University Technology Entrepreneurship Platform federal project, designed to stimulate students to set up their own businesses and attract investors, will be launched in 2022. Telesputnik writes that this was announced by Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

 
 The project will be one of the strategic initiatives of the Government. Around $270 million (20 billion rubles) will be allocated for the implementation of the project until 2024. The project will create 150,000 new jobs by 2030.

 
 Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Economic Development <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5088607" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">had developed</a> a plan to support technology startups at all stages of development.

 
 In August Chernyshenko also <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/russia-to-create-a-unified-digital-platform-for-science/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">announced </a>that a unified digital platform for science would be launched in the Russian Federation. Within the framework of the platform, an ecosystem of services for joint research will be formed by 2030.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/pravitelstvo-rf-v-2022-godu-zapustit-proekt-po-stimulirovaniiu-startapov-v-vuzakh/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Telesputnik

Russia to Launch a Project for Supporting Startups in Universities in 2022

The winners of the third season of the Digital Breakthrough 2021 competition have been announced. The teams shared a prize fund worth $325,000 (24 million rubles), as well as partner grants worth more than $27,000 (2 million rubles).

 
 Digital Coyote team became the best Moscow developer of the case for Rosatom. The team created the EcoTag oil spill detection and analysis system.

 
 In the Rosseti case, Foxhound team, which developed an online simulator for the unmanned aerial vehicle operator, became the best developer.

 
 Moscow developers were also included in the following teams:

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 <li>ltrp, which created a showcase of digital solutions for the Moscow Transport Innovations accelerator;</li>
 <li>Mamikhlapinatana, which created a solution for raw material quality analysis for on-site acceptance tests for Accenture company.</li>
 <li>Digital Office, which has developed solutions for onboarding new IT specialists for Promsvyazbank;</li>
 <li>Digital Office, which has developed solutions for onboarding new IT specialists for Promsvyazbank;</li>
 <li>Cache Invalidation, which created software for finding and tracking digital twins</li>
</ul>

 
 In total, during the hackathon 232 solutions for 12 case problems were developed.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/stali-izvestny-pobediteli-finala-tretego-sezona-vserossiiskogo-konkursa-tsifrovoi-proryv-2021/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

TelecomDaily

Russian Digital Breakthrough 2021 Contest Winners Announced

VTB will use artificial intelligence to assess the satisfaction of bank customers by facial expressions and pulse.

 
 The solution is based on neural network models and algorithms that read and evaluate the physiological indicators of clients from video. The study is carried out on the basis of VTB's internal data, and a pilot testing is planned as a result.

 
 The method was developed jointly with specialists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). The technology is expected to significantly speed up the process of obtaining customer feedback.

 
 The fact that MIPT and VTB have created a laboratory for the development of artificial intelligence, where research will be conducted in the field of determining the psycho-emotional state of personnel, <a href="https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/6076b9dd9a79475fdf3161f7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">was reported</a> in April.

 
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VTB to Use AI to Assess Customers Satisfaction by Facial Expressions and Pulse

Education holding Ultimate Education has acquired a controlling stake in Bang Bang Education online school. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

 
 Through the partnership, Bang Bang Education plans to improve business processes, strengthen development direction, and increase turnover and accelerate the scaling process.

 
 As a result of the deal, the online school will become part of the Ultimate Education holding, which has a total audience of more than 70 thousand students. At the moment, the total audience of Bang Bang Education exceeds 50 thousand people.

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RB.ru

Ultimate Education Acquires Controlling Stake in Bang Bang Education Online School

The Smart Cadastre service based on neural networks and spatial analysis algorithms began to be used to fill the Unified State Register of Real Estate (Rosreestr).

 
 The service classifies the identified real estate objects and generates various datasets, including by categories:

<ul>
 <li>absent in the USRN;</li>
 <li>located in "zone allowed"/ "zone not allowed", that is, suitable or unsuitable for involvement in circulation.</li>
</ul>

 
 Currently, Smart Cadastre is undergoing a trial operation. Soon it is planned to introduce it in the Khabarovsk Territory. According to Rosreestr estimates, the service will add additional land plots to circulation and replenish the USRN database with 17 million records

 
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Rosreestr

Rosreestr Deploys Smart Cadastre 

Since the beginning of this year, MegaFon has been recording an increase in demand for smart home products in its retail chain.

 
 In physical terms, the indicators increased by 34%, while in monetary terms the demand spiked by 41%. Among the most popular products are smart speakers with voice control. Their share of sales reached 62%. This is followed by intelligent lighting systems with a share of 10.4%, with smart sockets taking third place (6.4%).

 
 In turn, Tele2 clarified that in 2021 the demand for its smart home devices increased by 24% year-on-year. The most in-demand were video surveillance systems, set-top boxes and smart speakers. The latter, according to the company's forecasts, will gain popularity as voice assistants develop, but the leadership will remain with the smartphone.

 
 MTS reported that in the third quarter of 2021, their customers purchased four times more smart devices in the company's showrooms and online stores compared to the same period in 2020. Outlets, light bulbs, and home control centers were the best sellers in this category. Also in demand were humidity and temperature sensors, robotic vacuum cleaners and IP cameras.

 
 According to the preliminary <a href="https://t.me/ICT_Moscow/5256" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">results</a> of the ICT.Moscow poll, in which more than 300 people took part, 35% of respondents do not use smart home devices, another 34% choose Xiaomi products, while 31% prefer Yandex devices.

 
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ComNews

Telecom Operators See Growing Demand for Smart Home Devices in 2021

USM Holding will withdraw from the capital of VK Group by selling its 45% stake in MF Technologies (controls 57.3% of VK Group's voting shares) to SOGAZ Group. According to Kommersant, USM has confirmed the fact of the deal, its terms have not been disclosed.

 
 The SOGAZ Board of Directors “approved a 45% participation in the capital of MF Technologies JSC". The agreement was considered a "promising strategic investment."

 
 USM founder Alisher Usmanov said that he leaves VK Group "at the peak of indicators both in terms of audience and financial metrics." In turn, the CEO of USM Ivan Streshinsky clarified that the holding's business strategy will now “be focused on the “green agenda”, adding that the telecommunications business and related digital projects require“a lot of attention”.

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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ivan.streshinsky" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ivan Streshinsky</a>, the CEO of USM

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 At the end of November, Sberbank <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/sberbank-completes-the-deal-of-selling-its-stake-in-vk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">sold</a> a 36% stake in MF Technologies to Gazprombank for $174.3 million (12.8 billion rubles). The reason for the sale was not specified.

 
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USM to Sell its Stake in VK to SOGAZ 

IT company T1 Consulting has held a T1 Pitch Day pitch session for startups that presented their projects to IT market players and representatives of the financial industry, including VTB, MTS Bank, Post Bank, and Rosbank.

 
 Among the participants were Moscow teams:

<ul>
 <li>Optimajet, a product developer to reduce the time and cost of automating and deploying applications;</li>
 <li>ePlat4m Orchestra, a platform for creating applications for quick product launch to the market;</li>
 <li>Botman, a visual chatbot builder and document generator;</li>
 <li>SiteProtector, an online business vulnerability monitoring software.</li>
</ul>

 
 According to the organizers of the pitch session, the greatest interest among business representatives was aroused by projects that automate business processes without programming skills. In second place in popularity are solutions in the field of information security.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/startapy-optimajet-eplat4m-orchestra-botman-i-siteprotector-predstavili-proekty-na-pitch-sessii-t1-pitch-day/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

T1 Consulting

Startups Optimajet, ePlat4m Orchestra, Botman, and SiteProtector Present their Projects at the T1 Pitch Day Pitch Session

The Veon holding (the parent company of Beeline) announced the closure of the deal for the sale of antenna mast structures in Russia to the Service-Telecom Group.

 
 Under the terms of the deal, which amounted to 70.65 billion rubles, Service-Telecom received 100% of the shares of National Tower Company JSC and about 15.4 thousand towers.

 
 The companies also entered into a long-term agreement under which the operator will lease towers from Service-Telecom for eight years. In addition, the parties entered the build-to-suit program, which provides for the construction of 5 thousand towers by 2029.

 
 Veon <a href="https://ict.moscow/en/news/veon-sells-tower-assets-in-russia-to-service-telecom-for-1-billion/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">announced </a>the sale of its tower assets in Russia in September 2021.

 
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Beeline

Veon Closes the Deal for the Sale of Towers in Russia

They will be divided into three classes. The first will include publicly available data, the second – anonymized confidential, including those related to banking, medical, tax secrets, and the third – data containing state secrets.

 
 Deliberately created state operators will provide access to such sets based on a motivated request. In this case, the cost of creating one set will be at least 1 million rubles. The composition and sources of data for datasets will be determined by the state operators themselves, who will also be obliged to depersonalize information and provide access to it, depending on the security class. According to the draft roadmap of the Ministry of Digital Development, access to different classes of data will be opened in 2022–2024.

 
 In August, it <a href="https://data-in.ru/publications/news/91/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">was reported</a> that a mode of access to datasets for AI developers appeared in the R&D Infrastructure catalog.

 
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Russian AI Developers to be Granted Access to Government Datasets

Six Edtech teams from Moscow will present their projects at the semifinals of GESAwards 2021, an international competition for technology startups in education.

 
 The winners of the qualifying rounds are:

<ul>
 <li>Uchi.ru, educational platform;</li>
 <li>01Math, a learning online service for schoolchildren;</li>
 <li>IThub College, an educational platform of the college of information technology;</li>
 <li>4brain, an interactive online learning service;</li>
 <li>SkyEs, a platform for teaching foreign languages;</li>
 <li>Elbrus Coding Bootcamp, an online programming school.</li>
</ul>

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 The finals of the competition will take place in London on January 20-21. The winners will receive venture capital investments to develop their projects.

 
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VC.ru

6 Moscow-Based Edtech Startups Reach Semifinals of GESAwards 2021

The Atlanty Business Club and the Smart Ranking research agency have compiled a <a href="https://atlanty1000.ru/2021" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">rating </a>of Russian companies in the small and medium-sized business segment with a turnover of $800,000 (60 million rubles) up to $67 million (5 billion rubles), which included 51 Moscow IT companies.

 
 Three companies with the highest turnover over the past year are:

<ul>
 <li>Solar Staff - a service for quick deals with freelancers (RUB 4.1 billion);</li>
 <li>SevenTech - provider and integrator of communication services (3.3 billion rubles);</li>
 <li>Angara Technologies Group is a system integrator in the field of information security (2.6 billion rubles).</li>
</ul>

 
 

 
 The list of companies with a turnover of less than 1.5 billion rubles also listed: Usetech, NtechLab, Beorg, Red Soft, Everpoint. The compilers of the rating noted that the IT industry is among the fastest growing.

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Atlanty 1000

More than 50 Moscow IT Companies Named the Fastest Growing SMEs

The law obliging telecom operators to provide free access to sites within the framework of the "Accessible Internet" project has come into force.

 
 The final list of resources has not yet been established, but since April last year, operators have provided free access to 371 sites, including Gosuslugi government service, sites of government agencies and TV channels.

 
 Earlier, the Ministry of Digital Science <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5098811" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">has updated</a> the requirements for such sites. In particular, they will transmit video in 480p resolution. At the same time, they will be prohibited from downloading information from foreign resources and organizing the possibility of voice and video calls, as well as audio and video messages.

 
 The Accessible Internet project<a href="https://www.interfax.ru/russia/691251" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> was initiated</a> by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2020.

 
 <a href="https://ict.moscow/news/v-rossii-vstupil-v-silu-zakon-o-besplatnom-dostupe-k-sotsialno-znachimym-saitam/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Original (in Russian)</a>

Law on Free Access to Socially Significant Websites Comes into Force in Russia

Moscow was ranked first among European cities in the rating of innovations that help fight coronavirus. In addition, the capital took third place globally, ahead of Boston, London and Toronto.

 
 San Francisco and New York ranked first and second, respectively. The rating was compiled by the international analytical center StartupBlink.

 
 Analysts analized 160 solutions of Moscow in the fight against the pandemic, including computer vision algorithms based on artificial intelligence, cloud platforms that unite doctors, medical institutions, insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. They also noted the projects in the field of smart tourism, e-commerce and logistics, telecommuting, and online education.

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 In the previous ranking, Moscow <a href="https://coronavirus.startupblink.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">also entered</a> the top 3 in the ranking of innovations in the fight against coronavirus infection. Last year, there were 46 innovative solutions in the capital.

 
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mos.ru

Moscow Ranked the Best European City for Innovations Against COVID-19

The State Commission on Radio Frequencies (GRFC) at a meeting on November 29 added separate frequency bands in the 4.4-4.8 GHz range for 5G networks (previously, the 4.8-4.99 GHz range was identified by the commission as promising), according to the state body's <a href="https://digital.gov.ru/ru/documents/8069/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">decision</a> from November 29.

 
 In particular, New Digital Solutions company (a joint venture between Beeline, MegaFon and Rostelecom to develop 5G) received 4400-4555 MHz and 4630-4990 MHz frequencies for two years to study fifth-generation communication networks.

 
 At the same time, the company was denied in the radio frequency band 4555-4630 MHz and 4990-5000 MHz, as well as in 4800-4990 MHz for “conducting research work on the application, coordination and registration in the International Telecommunication Union of frequency assignments for radio-electronic means of communication networks of the 5G standard/IMT2020 on the territory of the Russian Federation ".

 
 In addition, according to the decision of the GRFC, the Radio Research Institute received from July 2022 to June 2023 the frequencies 6425-6825 MHz for studying 5G New Radio. The draft program for the conversion of the "millimeter" radio frequency band 24.45-27.50 GHz was also adopted.

 
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Ministry of Digital Development

Russian Regulator to Expand the Range for 5G Networks in Million-Plus Cities

The voice traffic in Moscow metro grew by 21% from November 2020 to November 2021, while the average call duration increased by a quarter.

 
 The overwhelming majority of calls were made within the Russian service area. In addition to Moscow, the calls in the metro most often were made in Krasnodar region, St. Petersburg and Dagestan, with 7% of them to CIS countries and 3% of calls to non-CIS countries.

 
 The average duration of calls from the metro within the Russian Federation was one and a half minutes and 35 seconds to foreign countries. Most often, metro passengers call abroad from the center of Moscow, at the Teatralnaya, Biblioeka Lenina and Tretyakovskaya stations.

 
 The data was obtained on the basis of an analysis of aggregated anonymized data on calls made by MTS subscribers in the Moscow metro.

 
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BFM.ru

Voice Traffic in Moscow Metro Grows by 21% over the Year

Kicksharing service Whoosh plans to enter the Portuguese market in February next year. The service also intends to open in Hungary in the spring of 2022. In total, the company plans to launch in six countries.

 
 For these purposes, Whoosh will attract $20 million from the company's working capital and debt financing from banks. The fleet of e-scooters in Lisbon (Portugal) will be 2,500 models, and their total number outside Russia in 2022 will reach 15,000.

 
 According to Dmitry Chuiko, co-founder and CEO of Whoosh, "the company has a significant advantage over competitors in the form of a high technological base and strong operational expertise."

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