Mobile Internet was still a premium service at the beginning of the year, but over the year the price of a USB modem dropped from 2,000–3,000 rubles to 1,000 rubles, and tariffs became cheaper, Kuskov recalls. In St. Petersburg and the region there are more than 600,000 modems, of which Sky Link has 230,000 and Scartel (Yota brand) has 100,000, estimates Nikolai Demenchuk, director of Skylink North-West.

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D.Grishkin Megafon launched 3G networks on the streets of Moscow and the Moscow region a little earlier than its competitors – on December 14, 2009. Oleg Klochko, Commercial Director of Megafon’s Moscow branch, says that in the last quarter of last year, Internet traffic in the Moscow network grew more than twofold. At the same time, 3G traffic accounts for about 20% of all data downloaded and sent by Megafon subscribers. Tubes instead of PC.

January 19, 2010, 10:12 / Business JAL faces serious cuts Tatiana Seyranyan The government's restructuring plan for Japan Airlines will force the company to make deep layoffs, cut routes and cut the number of affiliates that emerged as JAL tried to diversify its business, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The curator of electric power, Deputy Minister Vyacheslav Sinyugin is resigning, the Ministry of Energy reported. When this will happen and who will replace him, the statement did not indicate, the representative of the ministry only noted that the decision will be made by the government. The main candidate for this position is Andrei Shishkin, who worked at KES Holding until November 2009, a source close to the Ministry of Energy told Vedomosti.

D.Grishkin Representatives of parliamentary factions in the State Duma will soon have the right to make political statements at the beginning of plenary sessions of the lower house, Speaker Boris Gryzlov announced today. According to him, on Wednesday, deputies will consider the corresponding amendments to the State Duma regulations.

A transport hub in the area of ​​the Kalanchevskaya railway station, from which it will be possible to get to all of Moscow's airports, is planned to open in 2012, Vasily Kichedzhi, head of the capital's Department of Transport and Communications, told journalists on Tuesday. "The Kalanchevskiy transport hub will probably be opened in 2012. These are just plans for now, but active work is already underway to create the hub," he said.

President Dmitry Medvedev has decided to create the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD). Alexander Khloponin has been appointed to the post of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the district and simultaneously Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. This is stated on the Kremlin website.

Moscow authorities propose to combat illegal taxis by issuing special driver's licenses to legal taxi drivers, Vasily Kichedzhi, head of the city's Department of Transport and Communications, told journalists on Tuesday. According to the Moscow Transport Union, illegal carriers in Moscow earn approximately $1 billion per year, and there are about 40,000 illegal carriers in the city. "In Israel, taxi drivers have license plates that are different from other license plates.

The development company AFI Development has decided to postpone the opening of the Mall of Russia shopping and entertainment center in the Moscow International Business Center "Moscow-City" from the end of the second quarter to September - October 2010, according to a statement from the developer.

Until now, the largest minority shareholder of Uralsvyazinform was Lider. In the spring of 2009, it had 6.53% of ordinary shares and another 4% belonged to Gazprombank, which is affiliated with it, said the manager of the minority shareholder of Uralsvyazinform. A source in Lider says: Uralsvyazinform shares were not sold.

January 19, 2010, 09:27 / Business Goldman Sachs predicts oil shortage in Q4 Vedomosti Goldman Sachs predicts a sustained shortage of oil on global commodity markets from the third quarter of this year: demand will exceed supply as the global economy emerges from the current crisis. This is the main conclusion of the report of bank experts, which was distributed in the City of London the day before.

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Russian Nikolay Davydenko hopes to avoid excessive public attention due to his recent success in tennis, the official website of the Australian Open reports. On Tuesday, in the first round match of the Australian Open, Davydenko, seeded sixth, dealt with German Dieter Kindlmann in an hour and a half - 6:1, 6:0, 6:3.