Golden Telecom
Golden Telecom is a brand of EDN Sovintel, LLC.
Golden Telecom is a Russian long-distance operator, which is currently building its own Federal Transit Network (FTN) in Russia. At present, the operator has fibre-optical highways Moscow-Saint Petersburg and Moscow-Nizhni Novgorod.
On 17 March 2006 the operator declared that it put into operation the fibre-optical highway Moscow-Nizhni Novgorod. The distance of the line is 485 km (301 mi). The construction of the optical highway Moscow-Nizhni Novgorod was carried out together with Open Society VimpelCom. Both companies have invested nine millions dollars in the construction.
Since March 2006 Golden Telecom has been building a fibre-optical highway Nizhni Novgorod-Kazan-Ufa, with planned operation start in the end of 2006.
Company is building the largest European Wi-Fi network in Moscow, over 5.000 WAPs, made by Nortel, are installed by the end of 2006.
In 2007 the company plans to begin construction of a fibre-optical highway Kazan-Naberezhnye Chelny-Perm-Yekaterinburg and complete the construction of line Ufa-Samara-Saratov.
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