Ukraine's threat to shun Russian telecoms hard to fulfill

2014/9/14 13:30:26

Around 80 percent of Ukraine's mobile market is controlled by Russia's top mobile firm MTS and Amsterdam-based Vimpelcom, in which Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman's Alfa-Group is the biggest shareholder.

Yatseniuk said he would act to break up that monopoly.

 "This time Russia will not receive monopoly rights to all telecommunications licenses ... We want to see European companies as participants of the public sale of the licenses."

 

 


From Reuters 14, September 2014

 

Russian mobile firms face being squeezed out of Ukraine after Kyiv signalled it would favour European companies in future airwave auctions to curb Moscow's influence in the country.

 

It's the latest move in a concerted effort by Kyiv, Europe and the United States, to push Russian companies out of international markets until Moscow halts its involvement in territorial fighting in eastern Ukraine. The United States and the EU have imposed sanctions; Kyiv and Moscow are engaged in tit for tat action to hurt each other's businesses.

 

Yet Ukraine's government - which has yet to publish the terms of future airwave auctions - may struggle to sideline Russia's top mobile operators: One has already said it may seek legal redress if necessary and the other may follow.

 

 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/0 ... ons-idUSL5N0RB26G20140914

 

 

 

 

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