Rostelecom appoints new CEO at Turbo Cloud
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 13:30

Rostelecom appoints new CEO at Turbo Cloud

Russian national operator Rostelecom has appointed Vladimir Volkov the CEO of its subsidiary Turbo Cloud. Volkov will also continue working as senior vice president for complex digital solutions at Rostelecom. Volkov will focus on strengthening Turbo Cloud's strategic position, developing its product portfolio for large customers, and scaling its technology platform. He intends to place particular emphasis on developing AI-based services and products for corporate clients.

Megafon upgrades networks at airports and railway stations
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 09:07

Megafon upgrades networks at airports and railway stations

Russian operator Megafon has upgraded its networks at airports and railway stations across the country since the beginning of this year as passengers flows expand, reports Kommersant. Measures have included deploying new base stations, refarming, the addition of spectrum resources, and boosts to indoor network coverage at passenger terminals. The coverage of its networks has been raised by 53 percent.

VK revenues rise 17% in Q2
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 08:47

VK revenues rise 17% in Q2

Russian internet company VK has reported a 17 percent year-on-year increase in second quarter revenue to RUB 43.5 billion. Income from online advertising grew by 14 percent to RUB 26.7 percent. EBITDA climbed by 41 percent to RUB 7.6 billion. The net profit was RUB 328 million.

BeCloud uses Positive Technologies service Standoff Defend for cybersecurity staff training.
BELARUS 08:23

BeCloud uses Positive Technologies service Standoff Defend for cybersecurity staff training.

Belarusian state-owned cloud services provider beCloud said it has implemented the Standoff Defend online training facility from Positive Technologies. Specialists from the beCloud Security Operations Centre (SOC) will regularly investigate complex attacks there.

Life Belarus extends 5G roaming to 8 more countries
BELARUS 08:16

Life Belarus extends 5G roaming to 8 more countries

Life Belarus has announced that its 5G roaming services have become available in eight more countries, namely Austria, Vietnam, Italy, Qatar, China, Cyprus, Romania and Montenegro. This brings the total number of countries where 5G roaming is available to 39, after Life started offering them in Poland, Spain and Russia in May.

Beeline Russia Q2 revenues rise 11% but EBITDA falls 3%
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 07:50

Beeline Russia Q2 revenues rise 11% but EBITDA falls 3%

Revenues of Russian operator Beeline reached RUB 89.38 billion in the second quarter of this year, up by 11 percent year-on-year but EBITDA decreased by almost 3 percent. Services revenues amounted to RUB 85.41 billion, up by 11.8 percent, with growth in every business segment. The key drivers of growth in the retail segment were the expansion of the customer base and an increase in ARPU. In the corporate segment, turnover was lifted by mobile, fixed and cloud services, while in the B2O segment, there was h

T-Mobile Poland, Play open orders for new Google Pixel smartphone models
POLAND 07:43

T-Mobile Poland, Play open orders for new Google Pixel smartphone models

T-Mobile Poland has started accepting reservations for Google's new Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL smartphones. The price of the Google Pixel 11 5G 12/256 GB is PLN 3,749 while the Pixel 11 Pro 5G 16/256 GB costs PLN 4,499. The Pixel 11 Pro XL 5G 16/256 GB is available for PLN 5,149 and the Pixel 11 Pro XL 5G 16/512 GB is being offered for PLN 5,699. Items ordered in advance will start being dispatched on 20 August. Delivery is scheduled for the next business day.

Starlink excludes Poland from European roaming region
POLAND 13 AUG

Starlink excludes Poland from European roaming region

Starlink has not included Poland in its new European roaming region, meaning Polish customers may pay significantly more for using the service abroad than customers in other European countries. According to Polish business portal Puls Biznesu, the Polish government has contacted SpaceX, the parent company of Starlink, about the decision.

Netia to absorb subsidiary Petrotel
POLAND 13 AUG

Netia to absorb subsidiary Petrotel

Polish operator Netia announced a plan to absorb its 100 percent-owned subsidiary Petrotel, headquartered in Plock. The legal merger is a simplified process due to the 100 percent ownership, with no change in Netia's corporate statutes. The merger is carried out in order to optimise and simplify the ownership structure, as well as to reduce costs. Petrotel belongs to the Netia Group since 2011 and provides fixed and mobile internet services, telephony and numerous VAS.

A1 Belarus launches secure storage service
BELARUS 13 AUG

A1 Belarus launches secure storage service

A1 Belarus has launched its new service S3 Secure Object Storage, a secure solution for storing information with restricted access. The service is provided using a certified information system from the A1 data centre corresponding to Tier-3 requirements.

Beeline Russia launches AI workspace for internal use
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 13 AUG

Beeline Russia launches AI workspace for internal use

Russian operator Beeline has launched Exointellect, a workspace for interacting with AI models within the company. Exointellect brings together key AI models in a single interface: in-house GLM and Qwen for working with corporate information, as well as popular market models for open data, such as ChatGPT, Claude, GigaChat Max, YandexGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others. Since its launch in April, almost half of the company's employees—10,000 people—have connected to Exointellect.

Megafon deploys indoor network at Volga Arena in Nizhny-Novgorod
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 12 AUG

Megafon deploys indoor network at Volga Arena in Nizhny-Novgorod

Russian operator Megafon has deployed a telecommunications system in Volga Arena in Nizhniy-Novgorod. Mobile broadband at up to 250 Mbps speed has become available in the ice-hockey arena, the average speed is 100 Mbps. The 5G-ready network has been deployed in the arena, including 12,000 seats.

RUSSIAN FEDERATION 12 AUG

Rostelecom up 11% in Q2, EBITDA grows 9%

​Revenues at Russian national operator Rostelecom reached RUB 226.8 billion in the second quarter of this year, up by 11 percent year-on-year. The company said the main growth drivers were the expansion of digital services and growing demand for broadband, infrastructure, and mobile services. The share of digital services in revenue increased to 23 percent.

RUSSIAN FEDERATION 12 AUG

Beeline expands coverage in Moscow residential buildings

Russian operator Beeline has raised the capacity of its mobile network in residential areas in the city of Moscow and its surroundings. New base stations were deployed at 13 residential complexes there, and the operator also connected the buildings to its fixed broadband services.

POLAND 12 AUG

Poland to allocate PLN 10 bln to business and economy digitisation

Poland's state development bank BGK and the Ministry of Digital Affairs will allocate a total of PLN 10 billion to the digitisation of businesses and the economy in the coming months and years, the deputy prime minister and minister for digital affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski said at a press conference reported by the news agency PAP. The funds will be allocated in the coming months and years, Gawkowski said. This money will be available for use across various programmes, as it will also come from the Security

POLAND 12 AUG

MVNO Otvarta grows annual revenues 13%

Revenues of Polish MVNO Otvarta totaled PLN 12.891 million in 2025, up by 13.25 percent year-on-year, reports Telko.in from a corporate filing at the national register. The company's net profit was PLN 2.496 million, up by 12.83 percent. Otvarta provides mobile services on the Polkomtel network.

POLAND 12 AUG

Orange to deploy rail traffic management infrastructure in Pomerania

Orange Poland, in cooperation with Hitachi Rail and ZUE, has won a contract to deploy a digital system for rail traffic management in the Pomerania region. The system will cover a 56-kilometre section of train line No 202 with nine stations, connecting Gdynia Chylonia and Lebork. New infrastructure and a cable network will be deployed, wired and wireless communications systems installed, and video surveillance, dynamic passenger information, closed-circuit television at railway crossings, fire protection sy

POLAND 12 AUG

Orange Poland extends data roaming packs to 24 more countries

Orange Poland expanded its 'Safe Internet' roaming packages to 24 additional countries outside the EU. The list includes Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Botswana, Gibraltar, Honduras, Kuwait and other countries. The whole list now contains 74 countries. Customers there can activate a daily 1 GB bundle for PLN 15 or a 15-day 10 GB package for PLN 79. The packages are available for postpaid and prepaid, B2C and B2B customers.

HUNGARY 12 AUG

Yettel Hungary boosts mobile capacity by 20% for Sziget Festival

As Sziget Festival gets underway in Hungary, telecommunications partner Yettel has upgraded its network infrastructure to handle the massive surge in traffic. Serving an area of 60-70 hectares where up to 80,000 people connect simultaneously, Yettel and its infrastructure partner Cetin increased overall network capacity by 20 percent compared to last year. High-speed 5G capacity on C-band frequencies has expanded by 40 percent, the operator said.

RUSSIAN FEDERATION 12 AUG

Rostelecom starts repairs of Kamchatka-Sakhalin submarine link

Russian national operator Rostelecom plans to carry out repairs of its subsea fibre-optic line connecting Kamchatka and Sakhalin at the Ust-Bolsheretsk village from 12-15 August. Repairs will be carried out due to critical erosion of a section of the coast in the Sea of Okhotsk where the land-based segment of the fibre cable emerges from the water. The company completed the first, land-based portion of the work in 2025, deploying a new section of the route and connecting with the cable at sea. During the re

HUNGARY 12 AUG

One Hungary adds Apple Watches and shared SIM support

One Hungary has added Apple's latest smartwatch range to its catalogue, offering cellular models across the Apple Watch Series 11, SE3, and Ultra 3 lines. Alongside the hardware launch, the provider introduced OneNumber, a HUF 990 monthly add-on that links the smartwatch to an existing phone number and data plan, enabling standalone network access. The move brings One Hungary into direct competition with Magyar Telekom, which has offered similar smartwatch and shared SIM capabilities since 2020.

POLAND 12 AUG

Orange Poland launches back-to-school offers

Orange Poland has introduced a new offer for the back-to-school period. The campaign includes broadband on fibre-optic networks with Netflix at a low price, discounts on TV services, and a smartphone with a subscription starting from PLN 59 per month. The operator also makes it easier to add fixed or mobile services to an existing contract later, and receive the discount for bundling services at PLN 20 per month.

SLOVAKIA 11 AUG

Cetin selects Radcom for AI-driven assurance across mobile network in Slovakia

Radcom announced that Slovak wholesale operator Cetin has selected Radcom under a multi-year contract to deploy an end-to-end service assurance solution across its mobile network, spanning the radio access network (RAN) to the core. Radcom will replace the legacy assurance provider and deliver an AI-driven next-generation solution, promising superior customer experiences based on service-level agreements and a unified data analytics foundation for Cetin's transition to a cloud-native network.

CZECH REPUBLIC 11 AUG

T-Mobile Czechia announces CZK 1.5 mln grant call for 30th birthday

T-Mobile Czech Republic, on the occasion of its 30-year anniversary, has opened a new grant call called '30 Places Where People Connect'. In cooperation with the Via Foundation, it will distribute a total of CZK 1.5 million among 30 community projects from smaller towns and villages with up to 10,000 inhabitants. The aim is to support initiatives that connect local residents across generations and different groups and bring lasting benefits to the entire community.

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