Mega Fon

Mega Fon

MegaFon (Russian: МегаФон), previously known as North-West GSM, is the second largest mobile phone operator and the fourth largest telecom operator in Russia. It works in the GSM and UMTS standard. Its main competitors are VimpelCom (Beeline) and Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). As of June 2012, the company serves 62.1 mln subscribers in Russia and 1.6 mln in Tajikistan, Osetia and Abkhazia. Its headquarters are located in Moscow.

In 2002 the company changed its name from North-West GSM to MegaFon when it acquired several regional companies, becoming the first GSM company in Russia to cover all its territory. The name "MegaFon" in Russian looks exactly like the word for a megaphone; other connotations are mega- as "big" and fon as "telephone".