interWAVE EXPANDS INTO RUSSIAN MARKET
MOUNTAIN VIEW - 07/13/04 - interWAVE Communications International has received "type approval" from the Russian Ministry of Communications for its global system for mobile communications (GSM) standards, and its network sub-system (NSS) and base-station subsystem (BSS) product lines.
 The certification was awarded by the Laboratory of Mobile Systems of FSUE LONIIS - Federal State Unitary Enterprise Leningrad Research and Development Institute of Telecommunications - and "included Ministry assignment and successful field tests in accordance with Russian requirements," the company said.
As a result of the approval, interWAVE - which is already active in more than 50 countries around the world - received its first order for deployment of a GSM network in Russia.
The approval is also expected to be valid in a number of countries in Central Asia.
Russia's territory is diverse in many respects, with eleven time zones, the world's largest areas of forest, numerous mountain ranges, vast plains, and 150 million inhabitants.
While major cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg enjoy advanced telecommunications, with approximately 24 fixed lines per 100 inhabitants and 31 mobile lines per 100 inhabitants, areas outside of these major metropolitan areas have fixed and mobile coverage of less than 10 lines per 100 inhabitants.
According to the Russian State Telecommunications Committee (RSTC), there are up to 50,000 settlements throughout the country with nominal modern communications links. Additionally, due to lack of funds local fixed line telephony companies have been slow to invest in infrastructure and are unable to provide fixed telephone lines to remote areas.
Those difficulties, the company said, "have led to the rapid proliferation of wireless communications, which has grown at a rate approximating 100% per year in the last three years with these remote markets representing a significant opportunity for its wireless telecommunications product offerings."
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