- Peterstar
PeterStar ) is a CLEC in
St. Petersburg ,Russia . It was founded in 1992 as the first non-state owned cell phone operator in St. Petersburg. In 1992 - 1995 the company was headed byAnatoly Afanasyev . InitiallySt. Petersburg City Telephone Network had 45% stake in PeterStar.Valery Yashin , the Director General of the St. Petersburg City Telephone Network, was a member of the Managing Committee,Leonid Reiman , First Deputy Director General of the St. Petersburg City Telephone Network, was a member of the Board of Directors. The remaining 55% stake belonged to theTiller company of the British businessmanAnthony Georgiou .PeterStar offers a wide range of fixed telecom services including voice, data (ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet), calling cards, PBX sales (Avaya and Ericsson). PeterStar maintains the entire 32x-xxxx St. Petersburg numbering range and has over 2,000 kilometers of
fiber optic cables under the city streets. Competitors includeGolden Telecom ,Metrocom ,Equant ,Westcall , and others.Management
Since 2001 its Director General has been
Victor Koresh (b. 1953)External links
* [http://www.peterstar.ru/en/ Official site]
* [http://anticompromat.ru/oligarhi/ppo.html V. Pribylovsky. The origin of Putin's oligarchy] in Russian
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