Enforta to Add 25 Cities to Its Russian WiMAX Network in 2010

­Russian WiMAX network operator, Enforta has announced plans to expand its network to cover an additional 25 cities during 2010, increasing the company's overall service 'footprint' to 93 cities.

"Russia has certainly not been exempt from the global economic crisis, but in the last few months we have seen steady improvement," said Victor Ratnikov, Enforta's General Director. "In order for Enforta to maintain its leadership position, we believe the time is right to renew our expansion program -- particularly in some of the smaller regional capitals where our corporate subscriber base is underserved."

Enforta has aggressively deployed its broadband services across Russia's regional capitals and despite its short six year history Enforta was included amongst the largest 30 telecom operators in the 'CNews' annual survey.

The expansion program will include the cities of Kirov, Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk, Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, Cherepovets, Murmansk, Elista, Nizhnevartovsk, Saransk, Vladimir, Smolensk, Kostroma, Petrozavodsk, Pskov, Naberezhny Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Orel, Tambov, and Siktivkar. The cities of Kazan, Ivanovo, Serov, and Tobolsk are expected to launch as early as the first quarter of 2010. Upon conclusion of these deployments 70 million people will be within reach of Enforta's service.

The company plans to invest approximately $25M during 2010 for the expansion program.

Posted to the site on 27th October 2009