CrimeaTelecom

One of two Crimean companies which in May, 2014 the Council of Ministers of the republic decided to create for ensuring communication on the peninsula. CrimeaTelecom began to provide services of wire communication in the Crimea, and the second company -Krymsvyaz - services of modern mobile communication and management of radio of frequencies (including to LTE).

History

2018: Sale at an auction for 998 million rubles

On December 24, 2018 the auction within which the operator of the fixed and mobile communication of JSC CrimeaTelecom was sold took place. 100% of shares of the company for 988 million rubles were acquired by the "Management Company of Infrastructure Projects" (MCIP) registered in Simferopol, Interfax with reference to the ministry of the property and land relations of the Crimea reports.

Except UKIP, Sarych LLC applied for purchase CrimeaTelecom. According to data SPARK-Interfax, a core activity of UKIP LLC is construction of residential and non-residential buildings. Vladimir Zaritsky who in 2001-2008 ordered rocket troops and artillery of Ground forces owns a 95 percent share in UKIP, RBC notes.

CrimeaTelecom was sold at an auction for 1 billion rubles

According to the edition, also the operator's real estate was put up for sale: 105 thousand sq.m of premises and 21.5 hectares of the earth. CrimeaTelecom also possessed boarding house in the Bakhchsarai region of Crimea (land area is 4.3 hectares) and sanatorium on the peninsula.

In November, 2018 the State Council of the Crimea approved introduction of a share block of the CrimeaTelecom enterprise which at that time completely belongs to the republic, in the program of privatization. The packet includes more than 13 million ordinary shares of the company with a nominal value of 100 rubles everyone.

In addition to CrimeaTelecom, mobile services in the Crimea by the end of 2018 are also rendered by K-Telecom companies (WinMobile brand), KTK Telecom ("A wave of Mobile") and Sevtelekomsvyaz. Operators of Russian "Big Four" on the peninsula do not provide service.

The employee of one of the Crimean operators in a conversation with RBC called CrimeaTelecom "a difficult asset" with "history". He uses the equipment of the Ukrainian operators Kyivstar and "Ukrtelecom" which left the peninsula after its entry into structure Russia.^[1]

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