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Corbina Telecom is a Russian telecommunication services company. Corbina completely went to Beeline

06/04/2008 Wed, 10:06 Moscow time , Text: Igor Korolev

The mobile operator Vimpelcom became the sole owner of the Corbina Telecom group of companies, having purchased 49% of shares from Alexander Mamut. Experts note that now the new owners of Corbina will have to fulfill numerous promises made by the company's management during the pre-sale preparation.

Working under the Beeline trademark mobile operator VimpelCom signed an agreement to acquire 49% of the shares of its “granddaughter” - the Corbina Telecom group of companies. The deal amounted to $ 404 million, the seller of the shares was the entrepreneur's offshore Inure Enterprises Alexandra Mamuta... The shares of Cortek were legally acquired, which together with its subsidiaries Investelectrosvyaz and Kabelstroy provides services under the Corbina brand. Considering that Vimpelcom's subsidiary Golden Telecom already owns 51% of Corbina's shares, Vimpelcom has acquired full control over the company.

Corbina Telecom was founded in 1995 as a universal telecommunications operator providing wireline and mobile telephony services, as well as Internet access. In 2005, the company staked on the construction of home Internet access networks using Ethernet technology. At the end of last year, Corbina served 240 thousand subscribers in Moscow broadband, ranking second after Comstar-Direct (Stream). The company also operates in a number of regions. Last year, the group's revenue was $ 140 million.

At the end of 2005, the company was acquired by Alexander Mamut, while his minority partner was Victor Vekselberg... A year later, "Corbina" - 51% of the shares were acquired by the fixed-line operator Golden Telecom (GT), for which Mamut received $ 40 million and 8% of GT shares. At the same time, it was assumed that Corbina would retain its operational independence from GT and in 2008 would hold an IPO. However, at the end of 2007, VimpelCom had 100% of GT shares (Mamut earned $ 330 million from the sale of his stake). Immediately after that, the head of VimpelCom Alexander Izosimov on increasing the stake in Corbin up to 100%. GT announced the start of relevant negotiations, however, as a result, 49% were acquired by VimpelCom itself (before the implementation of this transaction, Mamut bought out Vekselberg's share).

Beeline became 100% owner of Corbina

“The acquisition of a minority stake in Corbina Telecom is a logical and consistent step in implementing our strategy of building a Russian integrated operator,” said Alexander Izosimov, CEO of VimpelCom. “Combining infrastructures, technologies, customer base and expertise of Vimpelcom, Golden Telecom and Corbina will allow us to create a solid basis for successful competition in the fast-growing market of broadband Internet in Russia.”

VimpelCom completed a deal on favorable terms analysts say. “Taking into account the estimates that the company made when preparing for the IPO, we can assume that the bargaining began at $ 500-550 million,” says an analyst at Finam. Vladislav Kochetkov... “So VimpelCom was able to achieve a good price for itself.”

Having established full control over Corbina, VimpelCom intends to transfer it to its own trade mark and eliminate possible competition between services. In particular, Corbina has already abandoned plans to enter the long-distance telecommunications services market, although the company has already signed a number of interconnection agreements. At the same time, now VimpelCom will have to fulfill the promises given earlier by Corbina. “The business of Corbina Telecom is developing successfully, but, as in the case of GT, while preparing for the sale, they gave too many promises,” says the general director of the analytical agency Rustelecom Yuri Bryukvin... “For example, plans announced by Corbina to expand the network, invest and launch new services are lagging behind reality.”

When I was looking for a new ISP according to ratings and reviews Corbina turned out to be the best, perhaps I was just unlucky, but I had a great desire to share!
So, we connected in May, from the very beginning we were given an old set-top box that did not work well, technical problems arose very often, technical support initially announced that this was most likely the fault of the set-top box, but refused to replace it. We fought with them a lot, I wanted to terminate the contract several times, but the chiefs of technical support called me back and persuaded me to stay, I stayed only because I was too lazy to look for someone new. the technical support staff were often incompetent, I had to suggest what needs to be done on their side, relying on the knowledge given to me by the support manager. later, by the way, it turned out that they did not have such a position as the head of technical support, I was told this during our last conversation with Corbina. in general, who exactly lied to me, I did not understand. the last straw was that finally - having agreed to replace the attachment, it turned out that now I myself have to go to their service center, because there is no service at home, like their competitors, Corbina does not, that I, through their own fault, having suffered with a broken attachment, must now go myself to them and change it. on this our conversation ended and after a couple of days we already had a new provider. The next few months Corbina reminded of herself with sms, which said that they needed to return the prefix to them, the first couple of SMS went to ignore, of course there was no desire to communicate with them. it seems that after the third SMS I called them, said that they could come and pick up the set-top box. I was advised again to take it myself, maybe it’s faster, but they said that I could wait for the courier, but wait 2 weeks. I said that without I'll wait for problems, but then it turned out that the rent for the set-top box would also grow with the expectation. Naturally, I said that I would not pay anything (if only because during all the malfunctions I had never been reimbursed for anything), and asked to switch to a senior employee to discuss this financial issue. it was even more interesting there, they told me that, because the attachment is faulty, the courier will not go to us, you need to carry it yourself. Not only do I have no desire to go to them, but also the possibility of 8 months of pregnancy and a small child at home, husband, of course business, at work. but the girl on the phone was not at a loss, invited her husband to take a day off))) I said that if we cannot find a solution, the console will go to the trash can, the girl said that she could not help me ...
in general, you can see for yourself what the situation is! I hope my letter will help to make right choice those who are now looking for an Internet provider. By the way, we also used their television, nothing worked either
What's good about the provider
sometimes it still works
What's wrong
-constant failures (sometimes several times a day)
-incompetent and boorish support (lie)
- there is no home service, you need to go to the service yourself

I have been using Corbyn's internet for several years. Service is disgusting! The only thing that holds is the reasonable prices. Constant interruption of the Internet connection, and sometimes even for a day, and oddly enough at the moment when the Internet is really needed, and not just play around on entertainment sites. And it is generally unrealistic to call the call-center, but when it still succeeds, they do not understand what the matter is, they transfer from one department to another, at the end of the conversation it turns out that there is another "prophylaxis" in our area and that "tomorrow evening" call, tell me " such and such a "code and we will be reimbursed for everything, maybe they will reimburse this day, but already so angry with the quality of service that I don’t want to wag my nerves once again - to call, spend hours. In general, I am very upset with this company, and would gladly switch to another, but my husband does not agree yet :)

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Elena

I have been using the services of Corbina Telecom (now they are called Beeline) for 5 years. And the opinion about this company is ambiguous. It is very often impossible to connect to the Internet, it gives an error, sometimes I have to restart my computer repeatedly to connect. The speed is often much lower than stated in the contract. it can also be difficult to get through to them - I waited several times for 30 minutes to connect with the operator. what else is good I like about this company is their "trust payment" service. If the account ran out of money and there is no way to pay in the coming days, then this service can be used on the Internet for up to 7 days. the service is absolutely free! but if you do not pay according to the tariff within a week, you will have to pay 2 times more money. The service is connected via Personal Area on the site beeline.ru
and nevertheless, if in the near future I am offered to try to connect another Internet provider, then I think to take advantage of this opportunity, if only for the sake of comparison.

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Marina Sanakoeva

When I needed to connect to the Internet, I turned to Akado, but there the connection was carried out during working hours, which did not suit me. I turned to Corbina, here they met me halfway and installed the Internet in the evening. Since then, I have been with this provider for 4 years. While I'm not going to refuse his services, there are some points that I would like to change in better side... But first about the good. There are many different interesting channels in digital TV packages. I am pleased with the opportunity to connect some channels and disconnect others through your personal account. Call center specialists are always ready to help solve problems, of course, this is their job, they are paid for it, but it is always pleasant to deal with patient and polite employees. But ... Internet speed has become worse, connection errors often pop up, you have to restart your computer several times. You cannot reach the call-center, you have to wait at least 15 minutes. For some reason, in the settings, the Internet often jumps to a more expensive one, and this is not immediately detected. I don’t want to think that money is being stolen from us. Hopefully this will soon be a thing of the past.

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Dmitry Rachkov

Corbina's Internet may not be very good, but the local network is at the highest level =) if anyone does not know, I will explain what it is and what it is eaten with =) and so, the wire that was led to your apartment when the Internet was connected is first of all cord local network, without it there would be no Internet ... and now imagine that your computer is part of a huge web of other computers that are also connected to Corbina, so they all form a local network, almost all computers have some kind of information, movies, music , games, programs, whatever ... and all this information is available for free download, at a speed that is tens of times higher than the Internet speed, a specific example: a 1.5 GB movie is downloaded in about 35-40 seconds ... but what Regarding the freshness of the content ... I don't know where these brave guys come from who constantly ship fresh films or music there =) as soon as they appear, the quality of, for example, films changes, when a film goes to the cinema, after a couple of days a pirate hangs in the lock, then through for some time the film is in normal quality, with normal sound =) in order to use all this miracle, you just need to download a program called DC ++ or ApexDC ... and these programs, in turn, are available for free lat download on the office site of Corbina =) not Beeline, namely Corbina (my.corbina.net)

also, through the local network, the work of programs such as ICQ, various mail clients, without an Internet connection is available, all the setup instructions are on the site indicated above ... and there is also a little trick with which you can watch cable channels on your computer for free, The IP-TV program is called, it works the same without an Internet connection, which significantly saves traffic =)

and so that the Internet is stable, contact the housing office so that the attics are closed, or they drove pigeons from the attics somehow ... in the attic there is just a switch from which distribution to apartments goes, there are a lot of wires, there are not enough pigeons, in some houses there may be young people in the attic gathering, well, or on the roof, but getting on the roof except through the attic is impossible ... so they pull without wires that hang chaotically there ... they themselves had problems with the Internet, that's exactly what they decided, they collected all the wires in the attic and hid it in the box, the problem is solved =)

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Andrey

I connected the services of this provider about a year ago and have no complaints. True, the first month there were interruptions to the Internet, which made me very nervous. I called the office, but the operator answered: "You have no problem on the line, check the connection." However, after every call I made, the Internet started working miraculously. But after that everything became normal and the most important thing is to work constantly, without any interruptions. The most, in my opinion, the best thing about Beeline / Corbin is that they were the first to use a VPN connection without any adsl modem there. File exchange network is just a class! The speed is 100mb / s. You no longer need to leave your computer overnight to download, but now a maximum of 15-20 minutes and that's it. Then, now Beeline offers Internet + cable TV at a low price. I like Beeline, and I will continue to use it.

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Corbina Telecom is a Russian telecommunications company. The headquarters is in Moscow. Currently, it is wholly owned by VimpelCom. Earlier, VimpelCom owned 49% of the company's shares directly, and the remaining 51% of Corbina's shares were owned indirectly through its Golden Telecom company.

Activity

Services

  • High-speed Internet access for users of home networks: carried out using VPN technology (PPTP, L2TP).
  • High speed internet access for legal entities: Internet access without using VPN technology. Typical Moscow connection speeds: 100 Mbit, 30 Mbit, 20 Mbit, 12 Mbit, 5 Mbit (and multiples of them). A typical Moscow connection environment: a separate optical fiber for each house, a separate twisted pair for each client. For the area - radio relay line or xDSL. In some cases it is used simplified diagram connection of legal entities persons in Moscow through home network equipment, which is characterized by a more moderate cost.
  • Point-to-Point - Providing the client with an end-to-end data transmission channel between two or more geographically distant points. Typically, this refers to Ethernet technology.
  • Digital telephony. Within the framework of this service, the client is provided with a numbering capacity, one or several streams for connecting to a PBX.
  • Colocation - placing a server in the company's data center, connecting it to the Internet backbone.
  • VoIP: Voice over-the-network transmission.
  • IP-television: broadcasting of terrestrial TV-channels over its own IP-network.
  • Email, shared hosting.
  • Retracker in the local network of St. Petersburg, Moscow and several other cities: downloading torrents at a speed limited by the speed of the local network.

The structure of the fiber-optic network in Moscow

Fiber-optic network "Corbina Telecom", with a length of 4,500 km, covered more than 100 districts of Moscow.

  • Backbone: two twenty-gigabit rings built using high-performance Cisco routers connecting multiple core nodes. The main nodes of the backbone:
    • Headquarters at Ryazansky Prospect
    • Moskvichka is the main point of accommodation for colocation clients. The building of the Moskvichka factory on the street. Okskaya
    • MMTS-9 is the main point of exchange and telephone traffic between Moscow and Russian providers
    • MMTS-10 - an additional point of peering between providers
    • MSU - Moscow State University... This node, due to its high location, is, among other things, one of the base stations of the corporate radio relay network, covering the territory of the nearest Moscow region and, sometimes, neighboring regions (hereinafter "BS RRL")
    • Kotelnicheskaya embankment - including BS RRL
    • Kashirskoe highway
    • Stockholm - a high-performance router was installed at the node in Stockholm, exchanging traffic with the leading European Internet providers Level3, TeliaSonera, Cogent and Global Crossing
    • CHP-23 - including BS RRL
    • Korovinskoe highway
  • Distribution network: Consists of Cisco Catalyst Ethernet switches connected to the core network at 1 Gbps speeds using 1000-BaseX or 10 Gbps technologies. The equipment supports QoS, Multicast, MPLS
  • District nodes: connected to the distribution network by one or more fiber-optic communication channels with a bandwidth of 1 Gbit / s (some regional nodes are already connected at a speed of 10 Gbit / s). Some of the districts, located mainly outside the Moscow Ring Road, are connected via temporary radio relay channels with a bandwidth of 2-100 Mbit / s. Basically it is RRL with bandwidth from 34 Mbit / s to 68 Mbit / s.
  • Houses: connected by optical fiber from regional nodes, bandwidth - 1 Gbps
  • Apartments: Subscriber equipment is connected to the Ethernet switch with UTP Category 5E (Twisted Pair) cable. Each subscriber is provided with full duplex throughput 100 Mbps

In addition to the transmission of IP traffic, the optical backbone network supports the transmission of digital voice data using SDH technologies.

Moscow and neighboring regions

In addition to Moscow, the company's digital network covers settlements both in the immediate vicinity of Moscow and in neighboring regions. In the settlements of the nearest Moscow region (several kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road), such as Khimki, Lyubertsy, the company's own optical network is already present. Cities and villages of the Moscow region (up to several tens of kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road), such as Noginsk, Zhukovsky, pos. Mendeleevo, Solnechnogorsk district, Sergiev Posad, Dolgoprudny, Balashikha, etc., as a rule, are connected using wireless high-speed technologies from the nearest base stations in Moscow (CHP-23, MGU, Korovinskoe sh., Novokuzminskaya, Kotelnicheskaya nab.) According to iKS-Consulting, the operator ranks second in the Moscow broadband market in Internet, occupying 16% of the market.

Regional network

The regional network of Corbina Telecom consists of several dozen of its own networks in such cities as: Tula, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Volgograd, Volzhsky, Voronezh, Ryazan, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Saratov, Orenburg, Tomsk and others. These networks, as a rule, are combined using leased digital WAN channels from regional providers such as Rostelecom, TransTelecom, GoldenTelecom, and using their own communication channels built on the basis of radio relay technologies (Kaluga, Ryazan).

The largest regional project as of August 2009 Corbina Telecom is the data transmission network of St. Petersburg (over 120 thousand subscribers).

Clients and partners

  • Golden Telecom uses the digital network of Corbina Telecom to organize a single WiFi network in Moscow (Golden Wifi). Since the purchase of Golden by Beeline, the brand has changed its name to Beeline WIFI.
  • The CoffeeHouse Company uses the Corbina Telecom backbone network to provide guests of its restaurants and coffee houses with WiFi.

WiMax

  • Before the start of the takeover by Golden Telecom, development was planned in the largest cities of Russia. After the transfer of control to VimpelCom, WiMAX technology was considered unpromising and the deployment of networks was canceled.

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Links

  • Lenta.ru, 12.12.2007
  • Company Magazine, 01.12.2003

An excerpt characterizing Corbina Telecom

Ilya Andreich came up with this diplomatic trick in order to give the future sister-in-law room to explain with his daughter-in-law (as he said after his daughter) and also in order to avoid the possibility of meeting with the prince, whom he was afraid of. He did not tell his daughter this, but Natasha understood this fear and concern of her father and felt insulted. She blushed for her father, became even more angry for blushing and with a bold, defiant look, which said that she was not afraid of anyone, looked at the princess. The princess told the count that she was very glad and asked him only to stay longer with Anna Semyonovna, and Ilya Andreich left.
M lle Bourienne, in spite of the restless glances thrown at her by Princess Marya, who wanted to talk privately with Natasha, did not leave the room and kept a firm conversation about Moscow's pleasures and theaters. Natasha was offended by the confusion in the hall, by her father's anxiety, and by the unnatural tone of the princess, who, it seemed to her, was doing mercy by accepting her. And then everything was unpleasant to her. Princess Marya did not like her. She seemed to her to be very ill-natured, feigned and dry. Natasha suddenly cringed morally and involuntarily adopted such a careless tone, which even more repelled Princess Marya from her. After five minutes of heavy, feigned conversation, they heard fast, slippery footsteps approaching. The face of Princess Marya expressed fear, the door of the room opened and the prince entered in a white cap and dressing gown.
“Ah, madam,” he began, “madam, countess ... Countess of Rostov, if I'm not mistaken ... I beg your pardon, excuse me ... I didn't know, madam. God knows that you have honored us with your visit, he went to see his daughter in such a suit. I beg your pardon ... God knows he didn’t know, ”he repeated so unnaturally, striking the word God and so unpleasant that Princess Marya stood with her eyes downcast, not daring to look either at her father or at Natasha. Natasha, getting up and sitting down, also did not know what to do. One m lle Bourienne smiled pleasantly.
- I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon! God knows he didn’t know, ”the old man muttered and, having examined Natasha from head to toe, went out. M lle Bourienne was the first to find herself after this appearance and began a conversation about the prince's ill health. Natasha and Princess Marya looked at each other in silence, and the longer they silently looked at each other, without expressing what they needed to say, the more unkindly they thought of each other.
When the count returned, Natasha was impolitely delighted with him and hurried to leave: at that moment she almost hated this dry old princess, who could put her in such an awkward position and spend half an hour with her without saying anything about Prince Andrei. “After all, I couldn’t be the first to start talking about him in front of this Frenchwoman,” thought Natasha. Princess Marya, meanwhile, was tormented by the same thing. She knew what she needed to tell Natasha, but she could not do this both because m lle Bourienne was in the way of her, and because she herself did not know why it was so hard for her to start talking about this marriage. When the count was already leaving the room, Princess Marya walked up to Natasha with quick steps, took her hands and, sighing heavily, said: "Wait, I need ..." Natasha mockingly, not knowing what she was, looked at Princess Marya.
“Dear Natalie,” said Princess Marya, “you should know that I am glad that my brother found happiness ...” She stopped, feeling that she was telling a lie. Natasha noticed this stop and guessed the reason for it.
“I think, princess, that it’s awkward to talk about this now,” said Natasha with outward dignity and coldness and with tears that she felt in her throat.
"What did I say, what did I do!" she thought as soon as she left the room.
They waited a long time for Natasha for dinner that day. She sat in her room and sobbed like a child, blowing her nose and sobbing. Sonya stood over her and kissed her hair.
- Natasha, what are you talking about? She said. - What do you care about them? Everything will pass, Natasha.
- No, if you only knew how insulting it is ... as if I ...
“Don’t tell me, Natasha, you’re not to blame, so what’s the matter with you?” Kiss me, - said Sonya.
Natasha raised her head, and kissing her friend on the lips, pressed her wet face to her.
- I can’t say, I don’t know. Nobody is to blame, - said Natasha, - I am to blame. But it all hurts terribly. Oh, that he is not going! ...
She went out for dinner with red eyes. Marya Dmitrievna, who knew how the prince received the Rostovs, pretended that she did not notice Natasha's upset face and joked firmly and loudly at the table with the count and other guests.

That evening the Rostovs went to the opera, for which Marya Dmitrievna got a ticket.
Natasha did not want to go, but she could not refuse Marya Dmitrievna's affection, which was exclusively for her. When she, dressed, went out into the hall, waiting for her father and looking in a large mirror, saw that she was good, very good, she became even more sad; but sadly sweet and loving.
“My God, if only he was here; then I would not like before, with some kind of stupid timidity before something, but in a new, simple way, would hug him, cuddle up to him, make him look at me with those searching, curious eyes with which he so often looked at me and then would make him laugh, as he laughed then, and his eyes - as I see those eyes! thought Natasha. - And what do I care about his father and sister: I love him alone, him, him, with this face and eyes, with his smile, male and together with the child ... No, it's better not to think about him, not to think, to forget, completely forget about this time. I can’t bear this expectation, I’m going to sob now, ”and she moved away from the mirror, making an effort to keep from crying. - “And how can Sonya love Nikolinka so calmly, so calmly, and wait so long and patiently”! she thought, looking at Sonya who was entering, also dressed, with a fan in her hands.
“No, she's completely different. I can not"!
Natasha felt at that moment so softened and relaxed that it was not enough for her to love and know that she was loved: now, now she needed to hug her beloved one and speak and hear from him the words of love with which her heart was full. While she rode in the carriage, sitting next to her father, and gazed thoughtfully at the lights of the street lamps flashing in the frozen window, she felt even more in love and sadder and forgot with whom and where she was going. Once in the line of carriages, the Rostovs' carriage drove up to the theater, slowly squealing its wheels in the snow. Natasha and Sonya hurried out, picking up their dresses; the count came out, supported by footmen, and between the ladies and men who entered and sold posters, all three went into the corridor of the benoir. The sound of music was already heard from behind the half-closed doors.
- Nathalie, vos cheveux, [Natalie, your hair,] - Sonya whispered. The attendant courteously and hastily slipped in front of the ladies and opened the door of the box. Music became brighter to be heard at the door, the illuminated rows of boxes with bare shoulders and hands of ladies, and the noisy and shining parterre of uniforms flashed. The lady entering the neighboring benoir looked Natasha with a feminine, envious glance. The curtain had not yet risen and the overture was being played. Natasha, straightening her dress, walked along with Sonya and sat down, looking around the illuminated rows of opposite boxes. The sensation, which she had not experienced for a long time, that hundreds of eyes were looking at her bare arms and neck, suddenly and pleasantly and unpleasantly seized her, causing a whole swarm of memories, desires and worries corresponding to this sensation.
Two remarkably pretty girls, Natasha and Sonya, with Count Ilya Andreich, who had not been seen in Moscow for a long time, attracted general attention. In addition, everyone knew vaguely about Natasha's conspiracy with Prince Andrei, they knew that since then the Rostovs lived in the village, and looked with curiosity at the bride of one of the best suitors in Russia.