There will be Transnistrian Internet in Crimea
Moscow - Simferopol, October 27 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Russian company Intertelecom received a license from Roskomnadzor for communication services in Crimea. Market participants associate this structure with the Ukrainian cellular operator of the same name, the shareholder of which is considered to be the owner of the Transnistrian holding “Sheriff” Viktor Gushan, reports Kommersant. In Crimea, Intertelecom will only be able to provide data transmission services for now - the right to provide voice communications throughout Russia was previously won by MTS and Rostelecom.
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Intertelecom received permission to provide communication services in the Crimea and Sevastopol for five years. The company will be able to provide telematics services, lease communication channels and provide data transmission services.
Intertelecom LLC was registered on May 28, 2014. The owner of 100% of the company, according to kartoteka.ru, is Vyacheslav Chernikevich. General Director of Intertelecom LLC Alexander Andronik refused to answer questions.
Under the name “Intertelecom”, a large cellular operator in the CDMA standard has been operating in Ukraine since 2001. One of its owners is considered to be Victor Gushan, the president of the largest company in the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, Sheriff, and Vyacheslav Chernikevich was listed as the commercial director of the Transnistrian operator Interdnestrcom, controlled by Sheriff.
The connection between Russian Intertelecom and Ukrainian was previously reported by the local publication Capital. Two sources familiar with the telecommunications market in Crimea confirm this. Intertelecom LLC is a Russian subsidiary of the Ukrainian company of the same name, they say. A representative of Ukrainian Intertelecom did not respond to a request for comment.
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