Golden Telecom continues its expansion strategy development in the CIS and Baltic Region. “Golden Telecom has long standing partnership relations with more than 130 of the largest national and cellular operators in these regions. Recently, we signed Interconnection Agreements with BITE LT (Lithuania), Telecom Georgia (Georgia) and TajikTelecom (Tajikistan). The agreements give us an opportunity to optimize traffic and guarantee high quality and competitive pricing in both Russian and International wholesale markets”, says Andrey Patoka, Vice-President for the Company’s International and Regional Business unit.

Golden Telecom has partnership agreements with all national and many leading mobile carriers in the CIS and Baltic States. There is a high demand for transit services to the CIS destinations which Golden Telecom can meet through its partnership strategy.

Apart from voice traffic transit, Golden Telecom provides partners in the CIS and Baltic Region with other services such as IP-transit, data services based on Frame Relay and MPLS technology and leased capacity. This approach allows us to build long-term partnerships and implement joint large investment projects.

At the moment Golden Telecom has signed agreements with the following national carriers: Armentel (Armenia), Aztelecom (Azerbaijan), Beltelecom (Belarus), Elion (Estonia), Moldtelecom (Moldova), Kazakhtelecom (Kazakhstan), Kyrgyztelecom (Kyrgyzstan), Lattelecom (Latvia), TEO (Lithuania), Ukrtelecom (Ukraine), Uzbektelecom (Uzbekistan), and several cellular operators, which are leaders in their home markets, such as KievStrar (Ukraine), UMC (Ukraine), Ukrainian Radio System (Beeline Ukraine), Sky-Mobile (Kyrgyzstan), Babilon-M (Tajikistan) and Magti GSM (Georgia).