The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) is the Russian state satellite operator with global coverage. RSCC was founded in 1967 and belongs to the ten largest world satellite operators in terms of satellites and orbital slots. The company possesses the largest satellite constellation in Russia. The satellites are located in the geostationary orbital arc from 14 West to 140 East and cover Russia, CIS, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific region, North and South America, and Australia. The RSCC terrestrial infrastructure includes five teleports: Dubna, Bear Lakes, Skolkovo, Zheleznogorsk, Khabarovsk and the Shabolovka Technical Center in Moscow as well as its own high-speed optical-fiber digital network.
As the national satellite operator RSCC meets the important state tasks on providing mobile presidential and governmental communications, federal TV & Radio signal transmission over the territory of Russia and the most countries of the world. The company pays serious attention to implementing national projects. RSCC closely interacts with the Russian state authorities in the field of informational and telecommunications and broadcast systems development.
RSCC provides a full range of communications and broadcasting services using its own terrestrial engineering facilities and satellite constellation including spacecraft of Express-AM, Express-A, Bonum-1, series and a part of the French W4 satellite capacity. The company’s satellites offer wide opportunities to establish TV & Radio broadcasting inclusive DTH, IPTV, MPEG-4 services, broadband Internet access, data transmission, videoconferencing, VSAT network deployment, departmental and corporative communications networks worldwide. The company has its own satellite TT&C system. Besides, RSCC controls and monitors the Eutelsat, Intelsat and other satellites using its engineering facilities.
ComNews Conferences is an event & congress arm of ComNews Group, established in February 2009. The main target of ComNews Conferences is to become a leading player in telecoms & IT conference sector in Russia. ComNews is an independent group of companies with a history of leadership in the market of telecom business information in Russia and the CIS The group was established in 1998 and today consists of five companies in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, rendering publishing, research, consultancy services and running event & conference business.
ComNews has over 60 fulltime employees.
ComNews runs four regular business publications:
a popular Internet daily publishing telecom news www.ComNews.ru (over 100,000 regular readers a month);
a monthly business magazine Standard featuring telecom industry in Russia, the CIS, and worldwide (12 times a year, circulation 10,000 copies);
an annual up-to-date reference book of telecom companies in Russia, Encyclopedia of Communications (circulation 10,000 copies);
an annual collection of biographies of top-managers «Who is Who in Russian Telecoms & broadcasting» (circulation 5,000 copies).
