Sibirtelecom , a subsidiary of Svyazinvest Holding Company, is a regional telecommunications and Internet service provider

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...

 in Siberia

Siberia

Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...

. It is responsible for providing service to over 29% of Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

's territory.

History

The company was formed by the legal union of many regional service providers. Please see the list of subsidiaries below.

Sibirtelecom became part of Rostelecom

Rostelecom

Rostelecom network, which as of August 2006, covered Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Volgograd, Stavropol, and planned to cover the whole of Russia by the end of 2006.-Satellite network:...

 on April 1, 2011, together with the seven other Svyazinvest

Svyazinvest

OJSC Svyazinvest is Russia's largest telecommunications holding company founded according to the decree No 1297 of Russia's government on November 25, 1994, as a 100% state-owned company and registered on September 18, 1995....

 regional telecommunications operators and OJSC Dagsvyazinform

Dagsvyazinform

OJSC Dagsvyazinform is a former regional telecom operator in Russia. It was a subsidiary of Svyazinvest. Its area of service included Dagestan....

.

Telephony

Local telephony services; Long-distance and international telephony services; Cellular radio-telephone services; Mobile radio-telephone services; Mobile radio services; Paging services; Leasing channels and communication tracts; Telematic services; Data transfer services; Telegraphy services (reception, transmitting and delivery of telegrams); AT/Telex network services); Cable television services; Wire broadcasting services; Television and radio broadcasting services using transmitting apparatuses.

Internet

• Broadband multi-service communication networks
• Development of infrastructure of the Internet access
• Intellectual communication networks
• Cable television Networks
• Internet – telephony
• Services Development of the ISDN network

Related organizations

Regional subsidiaries:

• Altaitelecom, Barnaul
  Barnaul
  -Russian Empire:Barnaul was one of the earlier cities established in Siberia. Originally chosen for its proximity to the mineral-rich Altai Mountains and its location on a major river, the site was founded by the wealthy Demidov family in the 1730s. In addition to the copper which had originally...
  
  , Altai Krai
  Altai Krai
  Altai Krai is a federal subject of Russia . It borders with, clockwise from the south, Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative center is the city of Barnaul...
  
  
• Gorno-Altaitelecom, Gorno-Altaysk
  Gorno-Altaysk
  Gorno-Altaysk is the capital town of the Altai Republic, Russia, situated east of Moscow. Population: This only town of the republic lies in a narrow Mayma Valley in the foothills of the Altay Mountains...
  
  , Altai Republic
  Altai Republic
  Altai Republic is a federal subject of Russia . Its capital is the town of Gorno-Altaysk. The area of the republic is . Population: -Geography:...
  
  
• Electrosvayz, Irkutsk Oblast
  Irkutsk Oblast
  Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of Angara River, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. The administrative center is the city of Irkutsk. Population: -History:...
  
  
• Electrosvyaz, Kemerovo Oblast
  Kemerovo Oblast
  Kemerovo Oblast , also known as Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia , located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains...
  
  
• Electrosvyaz, Krasnoyarsk Krai
  Krasnoyarsk Krai
  Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia . It is the second largest federal subject after the Sakha Republic, and Russia's largest krai, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory. The administrative center of the krai is the city of Krasnoyarsk...
  
  
• Electrosvyaz, 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...
  
  
• Electrosvyaz, Omsk Oblast
  Omsk Oblast
  Omsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in southwestern Siberia. The oblast has an area of and a population of with the majority, 1.15 million, living in Omsk, the administrative center....
  
  
• Electrosvyaz, Aga Buryatia
• Tomsktelecom, Tomsk Oblast
  Tomsk Oblast
  Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tomsk. Population:...
  
  
• Khakass subsidiary, Khakass Republic
• Chitatelecom, Chita Oblast
  Chita Oblast
  Chita Oblast was a federal subject of Russia in southeast Siberia, Russia. Its administrative center was the city of Chita. It had extensive international borders with China and Mongolia and internal borders with Irkutsk and Amur Oblasts, as well as with the Buryat and the Sakha Republics. Its...
  
  

External links

• Sibirtelecom – English language and Russian language
• Svyaz'invest – English language and Russian language
• Rostelecom – English language and Russian language