Thursday, June 13, 2013

"The basis of Telecom" went on the offensive - Kommersant

“Basis Telecom” still hopes to return to her earlier given frequency assignment. The operator has submitted to the Moscow Arbitration Court lawsuit against Roskomnadzor and complained to the FAS for General Radio Frequency Centre. Without frequency assignments “basis” can not run already built a 4G network in the three cities.


lawsuit “Fundamentals Telecom” (“Aykominvestu” Vitaly Yusufova owns 74.9%, the rest have subordinated the Ministry of Defence “Voentelekoma”) to Roskomnadzor filed on June 10, follows from the filing of cases the Moscow Arbitration Court . As explained in the company, the operator requests to declare unlawful inaction Roskomnadzora, the slope of the provision of public services on the assignment of frequencies or frequency channels. “The basis of Telecom” asks oblige Roscomnadzor decide on assignment on the basis of previously submitted applications.
Roscomnadzor issue frequency assignment after obtaining approvals from the Ministry of Defense and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Main Radio Frequency Center” (GRCHTS). In January-March of this year, “Basis Telecom” has received a positive opinion from GRCHTS on applications for the examination of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). These findings are presented in the company Roscomnadzor for assignment of frequencies. However, in April GRCHTS notified the operator that canceled the previously issued opinion on the basis that the Ministry of Defense believes that the use of any denomination issued “Based Telecom” 2.3-2.4 GHz frequency can not be everywhere (see “Kommersant” on May 15) .
Roskomnadzor refused to comment on the lawsuit, citing the fact that representatives of the departments do not have time to read it.
Earlier, a source “b” noted that problems with Roscomnadzor in “Fundamentals of Telecom” arose because of the uncertainty of the situation with its frequencies. The fact that the Defense Ministry changed its mind to develop the project operator 4G and even offered to withdraw the permission for use of the range of 2.3-2.4 GHz, previously issued by the company. As explained the source of the “Y”, close to the Ministry of Defense, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu did not want to make a non-core functions of the Army. But in the “Aykominveste” insisted that the legal grounds for the revocation of frequencies not. The same view was expressed by the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov.
This is not the first lawsuit “Fundamentals Telecom” about the frequency assignments. In late May, the company sent to the Moscow Arbitration Court lawsuit against GRCHTS. In it the operator attempts to annul the decision of the center, canceled, they made up the conclusion of EMC. “The basis of Telecom” has filed a motion to merge the two cases, the company said.
In addition, at the end of May “Basis Telecom” has sent a complaint to the FAS for action GRCHTS. The company asks the service GRCHTS issue an order to cancel the decisions of which were canceled due to the positive conclusion of EMC, as well as ending discrimination against business operators by giving them access to information, the circumstances that constitute obstacles to such a conclusion. “In addition to violations of industry and civil law actions and Defense GRCHTS conflict and antitrust regulation, as aimed at preventing the” Fundamentals of Telecom “into the market of mobile services in the standard LTE”, – said in the complaint (a copy is available in the “b”). The company notes that the frequency assignments in the band 2.3-2.4 GHz have been made to the operator Chechen “Vainakh Telecom” (at the beginning of the year, he announced the beginning of the test LTE network in Grozny).
Head of Transport and Communications of control FAS Dmitry Rutenberg said that the Anti-Monopoly Service “launched an investigation of how the complaint is justified”.
As described in the “Basis Telecom”, the operator has completed the construction of 4G networks in Ivanovo, Yaroslavl and Vladimir, but can not run them until they are given the assignment of Roskomnadzora. “The basis of Telecom” at the beginning of this year started construction of 4G networks in 20 cities and expects to launch them into commercial operation in the summer of this year.

Anna Balashov


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