Журнал Стандарт / Standard Special Issue February 2014

Editor’s Column

1 Get Smart or Get Lost
Leonid Konik, Editor-in-Chief

Cover Story

High Five
Why international universities, vendors, operators, associations, individual states, and the European Commission are getting involved in developing 5G cellular networks, and their expectations of the new mobile standard

The Perception of Infinite Capacity
Adrian Scrase, Head of the 3GPP Mobile Competence Centre and ETSI CTO, shares his views on 5G global developments

Ahead of All the Rest
Professor Rahim Tafazolli, Head of 5GIC and Surrey’s Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), on the 5GIC project and the future of 5G technology

Keynote Address

OTT Keys to Success
Oleg Tumanov, founder and CEO of Russia’s biggest online video provider ivi.ru, about the online video market and how to succeed in it

Focus on Check-n-Pay
Andrey Petkevich, CEO of Russia’s Digital Grass Group, on international rollout ambitions for their new mobile product, Check-n-Pay

In the Interest of GSMA Members
Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO of Telenor Group, shares his plans as Chairman of the Board of the GSM Association and his views on the development of the global telecommunications market

International Partnerships

A Passion for Roaming
How European and Russian officials and cellular companies have cut international roaming rates

Roaming on the Rise
Aleksander Popovskiy, Executive Vice President for Mass Market Development at VimpelCom OJSC, gives marketing lessons in international roaming from Russian operator and member of VimpelCom Ltd., the world’s seventh biggest cellular group by subscriber audience

Corporate Mobility

Mobility under Control
How to avoid fault lines while paving the way for corporate mobility

Omnia Mea Mecum Porto
Sergei Petrov, Vice President for Corporate Business Development at VimpelCom OJSC, on how the operator envisions the future of MDM solutions and the BYOD philosophy

Technology

Network Tangle

Drivers and prospects for the Wi-Fi Offload technology in Russia and around the world

Russian Jet over Europe
Elena Fominskaya, Head of the Telecommunication Solutions Center at Jet Infosystems CJSC, on the Russian integrator’s international ambitions and plans for the MWC 2014

Regulatory Issues

Bandwidths of Gold
How participants of the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC‑15) in Geneva are preparing for the allocation of supplementary bandwidth for mobile networks and the division of the 694‑790 MHz band among telecoms, broadcasters, and wireless LTE public safety broadband systems

Executive Forecast

Looking into the Bright Future
What Russian officials, professional associations, and major telecom companies are wishing for in 2014

The Market at a Glance
Who is leading the Russian mobile market