Wire communication (market of Russia)

2015: The first falling

In 2015 expenses of the Russian companies on wire communication for the first time fell. Most of all the segment of office telephony suffered, Vedomosti writes.

According to iKS-Consulting analytical company, in 2015 the volume of the Russian market of services of business communication was 148 billion rubles, having decreased for the first time — approximately by 1.5-2% in comparison with previous year. In 2014 growth was measured by 1.4%.

As told the edition the source familiar with managers of Rostelecom, at the end of 2015 the operator expects significant outflow of corporate clients and decrease in revenue in this market that it is connected with transition of business users to data transmission on the cellular networks.

In 2015 expenses of the Russian companies on wire communication for the first time fell

iKS-Consulting Maxim Savvatin agrees that the mobile Internet puts pressure upon a segment of data transmission of the market of corporate communication. However to speak about its serious influence on revenue of the fixed operators prematurely, he considers.

By its estimates, in 2015 revenues of operators from sale of telephone services dropped approximately by 5%, and in a segment of an intercity and international telecommunication falling was 7-8%.

The analyst of "TMT of consulting" Kirill Tatus says that costs of public sector on communication services are reduced against the background of crisis reduction of budgets. In the companies these costs fall in connection with reduction of number of geographically distributed offices and divisions (for example because of closing of departments of banks) and also because of the general cost reduction, Tatus notes.

According to the representative of VimpelCom Anna Aybasheva, crisis stimulates corporate clients to save in touch, including on fixed. This recession happens around the world, the representative of Rostelecom Irina Zhabrova claims.

The state operator expects to compensate fall of income from wire telephony by increase in a share of the services connected with modern digital technologies: Broadband access, cloud services, the industrial Internet, data processing centers, geoinformation technologies, etc., Zhabrova reported.^[1]

2010: Losses of suppliers from the IP telephony

On July 15, 2010 the meeting of expert advice concerning communication of FAS during whom, in particular, the question of legal status of Skype service was considered took place. "Emergence in the market of new technologies of provision of services of communication to which the IP telephony, including Skype belongs allow considerably, to reduce the price of communication by 10 — 15 times. In the CIS there is no settled relation to legal regulation" — the deputy administrator of FAS Anatoly Golomolzin noted.

The representatives of operators who were present at a meeting were concerned by other problems. Managers of Rostelecom complained that Skype takes away business from operators. "Losses of the Russian operators were only for 2009 presumably 6.7 billion rubles. Now from wider circulation of services like Skype of users holds low penetration of services of broadband Internet access in regions of Russia. The half-received revenue of the Russian telecom operators can make 10.5 billion rubles in 2011" — the representative of Rostelecom told.

Losses of the Russian operators were in 2009 were 6.7 billion rubles — such digit on commission session of Federal Antimonopoly Service (took place in July of the 2010th) was given by the representative of Rostelecom. Analysts consider that the sounded digit looks plausibly, but warn that the main threat to traditional operators — repartition of the longhaul market for benefit of "the big three".

"Rostelecom occupying very considerable share of the longhaul Russian market could receive similar digit, having analyzed the traffic. If to speak not about Skype, and about the IP telephony in general, the sounded digit is close to reality. The longhaul market the last few years showed either a zero, or negative gain, and are guilty of it as the services similar to Skype, and "the big three" which gradually takes away a part of business from traditional operators" — the analyst of iKS-Consulting Ankilov Konstantin says.

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