ER-Telecom is a Russian telecommunication holding company. It was the first federal telecommunication company, whose evaluation impulse has been received out of the region. The company is specialised on rendering a wide range of services for individuals and corporations.

Owners and leadership

The major shareholder is the Perm Financial and Industrial Group (LLC). Evgeniy Pegushin serves as Сhairman of board of directors and Andrey Semerikov as CEO. The first substitute is Sergey Gusev. Sergey Gusev has been First Deputy General Director and Technical Director of CJSC ER-Telecom Holding since 2006

History

ER-Telecom was founded in March 2001 by the telephone operator CJSC EL-Svyaz (1997) and the internet service provider CJSC Raid-Internet (1997).

The company started with rendering of telephone services (regular phone services, IP-telephony for corporations, IP-telephony for individual clients, telephone cards East-West) and dial-up internet access (internet cards 2x2). In 1998, ER-Telecom was the first dial-up internet provider in the region and carried out a variety of well-known internet projects such as Perm business portal Raid.ru. In July 2002, the company started providing IP-telephone service in Perm and left the main regional operator Opened JSC Uralsvyazinform behind.

In 2003, the company managed to start the construction of the Universal City Telecommunication Network (UCTN) for 200 000 flats in the first city of the project - Perm. The general principle applied to the construction was FTTH (Optics up to Home). Within two years, three cities took part in the project (Perm

Perm

Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

, Samara

Samara, Russia

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 and Volgograd

Volgograd

Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...

). In 2006, ER-Telecom elaborated and realised the start-up technology which allows to unwrap the activity in every new city of the project quickly and effectively. 22 cities are in the project.

Activity

In the cities of the project, ER-Telecom creates multiservice cable network of the same name as a platform for rendering all of the telecommunication services possible nowadays. ER-Telecom provides new possibilities for municipalities to realise social projects on the base of "Universal City Telecommunication Network" (UCTN) (connected with the safety, medicine services for the citizens, housing and communal services, penetration of info communications in different spheres of social life).

Nowadays the company develops telecommunication projects in 17 Russian cities: Saint-Petersburg, Perm

Perm

Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

, Chelyabinsk

Chelyabinsk

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, Izhevsk

Izhevsk

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, Kazan

Kazan

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, Kirov

Kirov, Kirov Oblast

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, Naberezhnye Chelny

Naberezhnye Chelny

Naberezhnye Chelny is the second largest city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.A major industrial center, Naberezhnye Chelny stands on the Kama River some 225 km east of Kazan near Nizhnekamsk Reservoir. It serves as the administrative center of Tukayevsky District, although it is not...

, Nizhnekamsk

Nizhnekamsk

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, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is the third-largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the largest city of Siberia, with a population of 1,473,737 . It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District...

, Omsk

Omsk

-History:The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes...

, Orenburg

Orenburg

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, Penza

Penza

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, Samara

Samara, Russia

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, Tyumen

Tyumen

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, Volgograd

Volgograd

Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...

, Volzhsky

Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast

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 and Yoshkar-Ola

Yoshkar-Ola

Yoshkar-Ola is the capital city of the Mari El Republic, Russia. Population: Yoshkar-Ola means red city in Mari. The current name is the third to have been given to the city. The city was known as Tsaryovokokshaysk before 1919 and as Krasnokokshaysk between 1919 and 1927...

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On the base of UCTN, ER-Telecom offers many different services including cable television (Divan-TV), high-speed broadband internet access (DOM.RU), IP-telephony (GORSVYAZ), DVB-C television (Divan-TV Plus) as well as services for corporations (home office service, videoconference connection, telemetry collecting service and the like).