WestCall

Telecommunications company WestCall is a telecom operator founded in August 1996. Provides end-to-end business solutions, including, telephony provision,, internet access, video surveillance cloudy data storage protection against DDoS attack, and others. IT services

Management

The CEO of WestCall since 2021 is Ilgiz Azizov.

History

2020: VimpelCom bought WestCall

On August 7, 2020, it became known about the sale of WestCall to VimpelCom. Information about this transaction was disclosed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has considered the petition of the public joint-stock company Vympel-Communications to enter into a transaction to acquire a share of 100% of the authorized capital of West Call Ltd Limited Liability Company (location: 107023, Moscow, Semenovskaya Square, d. 1A; main activities: activities for the provision of telephone services, activities in the field of communication based on wired technologies, activities for the provision of data transfer services for the purposes of voice information transmission (IP-telephony)) and decided to satisfy this petition, - indicated in the materials of the department.

According to the Prime agency, citing FAS data, the decision to approve the transaction was registered on June 11, 2020. The value of the transaction is not specified.

VimpelCom acquired WestCall

Founded in 1996, WestCall by August 2020 operates only in Moscow, while there was previously a business in the regions. It was terminated after Er-Telecom bought 100% of the St. Petersburg branch for almost 4 billion rubles, and Rostelecom acquired the Samara structure of AIST from a telecommunications company for 1.4 billion rubles.

According to the SPARK-Interfax system, before the deal with VimpelCom, 100% of West Call Ltd LLC belonged to the Cypriot Wintergate Holdings Ltd.^[1][2]

2019: Revenue - RUB 1 billion

The revenue of the WestCall operator at the end of 2019 amounted to 1 billion rubles, net profit - 4.65 million rubles.

2016-2017

Logo in 2017

2016 - reorganization of WestCall LTD LLC, purchase of ER-Telecom Holding JSC of the St. Petersburg branch, withdrawal of Moscow WestCall from the group of companies.

2017 - N.E. Aksyonova was appointed manager of WestCall LTD LLC

2013-2014

According to the results of 2013, the total revenue of WestCall Group in 2013 amounted to 4.7 billion rubles (the revenue of the St. Petersburg branch of WestCall amounted to 1.3 billion rubles, or plus 12%), which exceeds the 2012 figure by 10% according to IFRS reports. The number of private subscribers BROADBAND ACCESS of the group as a whole reached 329 thousand, the number of subscribers of the V2V sector amounted to 36.5 thousand (we are also talking about the group as a whole), and the indicator EBITDA increased by 14% compared to 2012 (in the St. Petersburg branch by 9%). The maximum growth was in the digital television segment - 47% per year, which is' due to the expansion of the broadcasting network and the active introduction of the service in the HoReCa segment '.

2013 - launch of the third stage of the WestCall Data Center. The data center is connected to its own backbone network by optical communication channels with a bandwidth of 10 Gbps and its area is now more than 450 m2.

2014 - acquisition of two companies in the segment broadband access Diamond Networks and MNS.ru. Doubling the subscriber base in St. Petersburg.

2012: Revenue growth by 17% to RUB 4.2 billion

The company's total revenue in 2012 amounted to 4.2 billion rubles, which exceeds last year's figure by 17% according to IFRS reports. In 2012, the number of private subscribers broadband access of the WestCall group of companies reached 228 thousand, an increase of about 8% over the year. EBITDA in 2012 increased by 43% compared to 2011.

In 2012, the company's Moscow office modernized the equipment of the data network core, and modern high-performance routers were installed on the main nodes. To improve the reliability of the network, the main nodes were backed up.

In 2012, a new Data Center hall was commissioned in St. Petersburg, bringing its total area to 205 sq.m. The WestCall data center is connected to its own backbone network by optical communication channels with a capacity of 1 Gbps.

The main strategic objective of the WestCall group of companies for 2013 is the development and expansion of the range of telephony and Internet services, intelligent services, IP television in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Ryazan, Moscow and Leningrad regions.

2011

Telecom operator "West Call" has passed voluntary certification of the company's quality management systems in the field of design, installation and commissioning of electrical networks, communication lines and equipment. As a result of the audit, this quality management system of the group of companies was recognized as complying with international standards. The certification body was the Interecoms quality management system certification center. According to the center, today the register of organizations certified by TsSSK Interecoms in the field of design and construction includes a little less than twenty large Russian telecom operators operating in the Moscow communications market.

As of July 2011, the company provided a full range of fixed-line telephone services, including corporate voice and data networks in, St. Petersburg,, To Moscow, and Volgograd, Ryazan To Samara Togliatti services, data center high-speed dedicated network access, Internet a set of intelligent services and a number of other modern services telecommunication.

1996: Founding of the Company

ZAO West Call Ltd was founded in 1996 in Moscow. The St. Petersburg branch was opened in November of the same year.