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The Federal Antimonopoly Service approved petitions from NetByNet Internet service provider for acquisition of 100% of actions of JSC Advantedzh Telecom and JSC Aston

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) approved petitions from NetByNet Internet service provider  for acquisition of 100% of actions of JSC Advantedzh Telecom and JSC Aston.

About it it is told in the FAS decisions published on Thursday on the official site of department. Petitions for purchase of 100% of actions of two companies situated near Moscow  – "Advantedzh Telecom" and "Aston" – from JSC Nat Bai Nat Holding arrived  FULL FACE on May 30 this year.

On Friday, June 6, the press service of NetByNet refused comments.

According to the analyst "Investkaf" Timur Nigmatullin, M&A-активность NetByNet it is connected with need of development in its parent company – JSC "Megafon" – wire infrastructure for improvement of quality of rendering of services  of 3G/4G-communication.

"It is especially actual for the Moscow region in anticipation of arrival of JV Tele2 and JSC Rostelecom ("T2 PTK Holding" – ComNews Comment)", – Timur Nigmatullin noted in conversation with the reporter of ComNews.

NetByNet buys these telecommunication companies for expansion of own  client base in the Moscow region on already created structure of the organizations, the analyst of MFX Broker Sergey Nekrasov in turn added.

"Purchase of data of the companies will allow to consolidate assets and to provide to clients of Moscow area high-quality and competitive services in providing  Internet access and television. Thanks to this NetByNet will be able to increase a share in the telecommunication market", – Sergey Nekrasov concluded in conversation with ComNews.

At the beginning of May of this year the head of NetByNet Andrey Batanov declared that in 2014 the operator intends to expand a covering, to improve quality of the provided  services, and also to increase subscriber base more than by 20%, including due to development in new regions – in the Northwest and in Primorye.

For last year the revenue of NetByNet in comparison with 2012 grew by 60%, to 4,14 billion rubles. The subscriber base of the operator increased by 47% and made 746 thousand users. According to "MegaFon" for 2013, the subscriber base of NetByNet includes 710 thousand natural persons and more than 36 thousand corporate subscribers.

Andrey Fedoseyev

ComNews.ru

No. of 09.06.14