Russian mobile operator MegaFon and Ericsson have signed a seven year agreement to jointly develop MegaFon's infrastructure

Romanian operators Romtelecom and Cosmote have signed a seven-year managed services agreement with Ericsson.

The Romanian and Slovakian units of Deutsche Telekom – Cosmote Romania and Slovak Telekom – have rolled out Jibe Mobile’s joyn service.

Vodafone’s Czech unit has taken issue with an LTE network-sharing arrangement between two of its main rivals, arguing that the country’s regulator has stipulated that such arrangements should not be exclusive.

NEC Corporation subsidiary NEC Neva is supplying Rostelecom with an outdoor, integrated, ultra-compact microwave communications system which supports 70-80GHz E-band communications.

Comarch has finished implementing Field Intervention Management solutions for Orange Polska, allowing the telecom operator to reduce the costs of network operations and improve the quality of tasks performed by technical staff.

Leading Russian operator MTS has completed the first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call on a telco cloud infrastructure using Nokia’s technology.

Two leading Czech operators have agreed to share radio access equipment for nationwide LTE coverage.

Ruckus Wireless and Orange Poland have deployed Hotspot 2.0 Wi-Fi services in Warsaw.

Assurance and analytics solutions provider Teoco has been selected by Russia’s leading telecommunication service provider, Rostelecom, to deliver its proven Netrac network fault and performance management solution.

The Moscow Metro has deployed a new wireless broadband solution to deliver 90 Mbps per train across distances of up to 900 metres.

A new five-year agreement between Vodafone and Huawei will expand the operator group’s Single Radio Access Network (SingleRAN) for its “Project Spring” Phase 1 programme across the world.

The CTO of Tele2 Estonia, Ervins Kampans, has stated that this year the operator is aiming to achieve theoretical peak download speeds of 300Mb/s for LTE.

Orange Slovakia has deployed Openet’s Policy and Charging Control (PCC) infrastructure to enable a major rollout of advanced shared data bundles.

Nokia Solutions and Networks will provide its GSM-Railway (GSM-R) mobile infrastructure to cover a 440-kilometer section of Poland’s E-20 railway corridor.

Moldova’s national operator Moldtelecom has selected Astellia to audit the voice and data service quality of its 3G network and provide expert recommendations to improve the overall customer experience.

Deutsche Telekom has confirmed that it will acquire the 39.23% stake that it doesn’t yet own in T-Mobile Czech Republic for €800 million.

Orange Business Services has renewed and expanded a satellite capacity contract with SES to support its growing network connectivity needs in the Russian Federation.

The sale of Telefonica’s Czech and Slovak units to Czech investment group PPF has been closed.

Russian telecoms provider TTK has signed a network partnership agreement with cloud infrastructure firm Akamai.

Telefonica Czech Republic will scrap 10% of its jobs over the coming year. While the operator is currently struggling, the redundancies actually date back to a 2011 restructuring initiative and are not related to investment group PPF’s recent bid for a majority stake.

Slovak Telekom has launched LTE services across five cities in Slovakia, which the operator claims is the country’s largest LTE deployment thus far.

BaikalWestCom, the largest mobile network operator in East Siberia, has optimised its network with Geo-located Customer Experience Analytics provided by Actix.

A new report from BroadGroup suggests that the CEE data centre market is experiencing important changes and there is potential for significant growth in the region – especially as the use of outsourcing and cloud services grows.

The Czech Republic’s 4G spectrum auctions have not attracted a new market entrant, contrary to the hopes of the market’s regulator CTU.

Russian operator Rostelecom could transfer control of its mobile operation to VTB and Bank Rossiya, the two banks that own Tele2 Russia.