MTS Web Services

History

2021

Registration of the company to which MTS infrastructure and cloud services will be transferred

On August 6, 2021, MTS officially registered MTS Web Services (MVS), into which it will transfer its infrastructure and cloud services. Information about the new legal entity appeared in the SPARK-Interfax system.

According to Interfax, citing this system, the authorized capital of the MVS is 1 billion rubles, MTS Vice President for Infrastructure Development Igor Egorov was appointed General Director of the company.

The press service of MTS told the agency that in the future it is planned to withdraw the bulk of telecommunications and IT assets, as well as the group's cloud infrastructure to the MFS.

MTS created MTS Web Services, into which it transfers infrastructure and cloud services

The main focus of the new company will be digital projects and products in the field of edge cloud and edge computing. MTS has a powerful innovative infrastructure and a team of experienced technical specialists, engineers and developers, so MVS has everything necessary to become a Russian leader in the field of digital infrastructure and cloud services, MTS said.

According to an Interfax source, MTS will continue to develop telecom products on the infrastructure of the created subsidiary. At the same time, the new company will use the infrastructure to create new digital products and independently offer them to the external market.

MVS has the potential to become a technological foundation for the accelerated development and launch of advanced mass services in the field of smart cities, cloud computing, unmanned vehicles, digital medicine, etc., said earlier MTS head Vyacheslav Nikolaev.

According to one of Vedomosti's sources, the allocation of infrastructure business and new services to a separate company will contribute to the growth of MTS capitalization and will allow selling new services to other operators.^[1]

MTS will allocate network infrastructure and data centers to a new company

May 20, 2021 it became known about the decision of MTS to create a new company to transfer to it most of its infrastructure, including mobile and fixed communication networks, switching equipment, as well as cloud business and data centers.

The new structure was called MTS Web Services. It, as MTS President Vyacheslav Nikolaev told Vedomosti, will also include MGTS. He did not name the head of the new company. Reorganization is planned for 2021.

Changing the structure of the business is expected to allow MTS to more effectively promote the digital services already provided (for example, cloud computing and data storage) and quickly bring new ones to the market.

MTS will allocate network infrastructure and data centers to the new company MTS Web Services

I am convinced that the new company will develop at an accelerated pace due to synergy of directions and simplification of corporate procedures, "said Vyacheslav Nikolaev.

A source familiar with MTS managers says that the "big" MTS itself will provide traditional communication services, such as mobile telephony and Internet access, based on the "daughter" infrastructure. The company will develop new digital services itself and offer them to external customers, the source said.

According to the source of the newspaper, who is familiar with the developers of the reorganization project, in this way MTS will solve several issues at once.

It is extremely difficult to develop and implement innovative products in a company focused on the mass market, there is a constant clash of business approaches - to make such products better on a separate site, "he stressed.

Also, according to him, the allocation of infrastructure business and new services will lead to an increase in the capitalization of MTS. And finally, the withdrawal of new services into a separate company will allow them to be sold to other operators.^[2]

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