Arctel

The company was founded on September 29, 1999 ^[1] .

In 2001, ARKTEL merged with Incom-Svyaz. The result of this transaction was a large technological base, an expanded package of services and the possibility of organizing Internet access through dedicated fiber-optic lines.

In 2002, ARKTEL began to offer turnkey integrated telephone services.

In 2003, ARKTEL won the tender for telephony of a Class A business center on 2nd Zvenigorodskaya Street (Moscow), and in 2004 completed the complex telephony of a 19-storey class A retail and office complex Cherry Tower, total area of ​​more than 100,000 m².

In 2005, the company invests over $ 7 million in the development of its network. The Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation provides the company with its own numbering capacity - 10,000 city telephone numbers.

In 2006, ARCTEL began to actively develop its own network of regional representative offices, opening branches in Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. The ARKTEL group of companies includes large alternative operators in Volgograd (VolgoTelecom CJSC), Kirov (Promtek LLC) and Krasnodar (South Telecom LLC).

In 2007, ARCTEL continued to develop its own network of regional offices and in March opened a branch in Nizhny Novgorod. The area of ​​commercial real estate in Moscow where ARKTEL OJSC provides comprehensive telephone services, data services and telematic communication services, including Internet access, exceeded 2 million m².

Obtained permission from the State Commission on Radio Frequencies to allocate a frequency resource for the construction of WiMAX networks in Krasnodar, Volgograd, Samara, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod, Khabarovsk, as well as in Moscow, Leningrad and Novosibirsk regions. This year, about 200 km of fiber-optic telecommunications network were laid. The Department of intercity and international communications has been established. The technical and organizational readiness for the provision of long-distance communication services was provided.

In 2008, the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation assigned the ARCTEL company codes for choosing a long-distance operator: 21 for long-distance communications and 26 for international (Order of the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Russian Federation No. 17 of 02/04/08).

More than 20,000 Russian companies and organizations are already working with ARCTEL.

In May 2008, Arktel became part of the Ros-Web telecommunication holding (www.rosweb.ru). The company leaves its founder Kuznetsov Sergey Vilenovich. ARKTEL is headed by Andrei Vladimirovich Varfolomeev (General Director), Alexander Anatolyevich Kobtsev (First Deputy General Director).

According to the results of 2008, revenue amounted to 1.44 billion rubles., Net loss - 239 million rubles.

2009 is January. The company leaves the Deputy General Director - Director of the Department of long-distance and international communications - Puchkov Victor Ivanovich. His position is occupied by Kasatkina Natalya Viktorovna.

March. The company is under the control of the Open Market for Construction Investments (www.orsi.su). The management of the company is changing: Andrey Vladimirovich Varfolomeev is leaving the company, Alexander Anatolyevich Kobtsev, and Alla Khmelevskaya (Executive Director) is heading the company. During this period, Igor Dmitrievich Klochko (Deputy General Director for Commercial Activities) and Abrosimov Sergey Yuryevich (Deputy General Director for Operations - Financial Director) left the company. Andrei Alexandrovich Sviridovsky becomes the Deputy General Director for Commercial Activities.

October. The company leaves the management of the Open Market for Construction Investments. The management of the company is changing: Alla Khmelevskaya (Executive Director from March to October 2009), Sviridovsky Andrey Alexandrovich (Deputy General Director for Commercial Activities from April to October 2009) are leaving the company. The company is headed by Evgeny Frolov (General Director).

November. The headquarters and the Moscow branch of the company moves from the office on Profsoyuznaya 56 to the office Paper Passage 14/2

According to the results of 2009, revenue decreases, net loss increases. Wage arrears to company employees are growing.

At the beginning of 2010 , a group of crisis managers came to the company (Avakumov Yuri Nikolaevich (Commercial Director), Varechkina Anastasia Borisovna (Financial Director), Voronin Andrey Alexandrovich (Advisor to the General Director)), who are tasked with bringing the company to operational zero.

In the summer, a group of crisis managers leaves the company. In June 2010, Avakumova Yu.N. left the company, in July Voronin A.A., in August Kasatkina Natalya Viktorovna (Telecommunications Director from January 2009 to August 2010).

In May 2011, the Moscow Region Arbitration Court accepts the application of Leader CJSC (Pension Fund Asset Management Company) D.W. NPF GAZFOND declaring OJSC Arktel insolvent (bankrupt) .

On October 12 , 2011, the Moscow Region Arbitration Court makes a decision recognizing the requirements of Leader CJSC (Pension Fund Asset Management Company) D. U. NPF GAZFOND as justified and introducing a monitoring procedure in relation to OJSC Arktel. The temporary manager of OJSC “Arktel” is appointed Eremin Alexander Mikhailovich.

Since June 2013, the company ceased operations - the site and phones are down, IP-telephony is not functioning. (Not really - there is access from mobile MTS and Megafon, but not from MGTS. Operator wars?)

Our Network LLC is a possible successor, and serves most of the telephone numbers of OJSC Arktel.

In February 2014, the news appeared on the site of Our Network LLC (A-tel) that the licenses for the provision of services for the company had expired and the company was terminating ^[2] . In August 2014, the company was declared bankrupt ^[3] .

The shareholder of the company is OJSC “Moscow Regional Investment Trust Company” ^[4] .

Interim Manager - Eremin Alexander Mikhailovich

The company provided a range of telecommunication services: telephone services, including long-distance and international, communication services for data transmission and telematic communication services, including the organization of access to the Internet via dedicated fiber-optic lines, intelligent communication services, complex telephony of real estate and other services.

• Backbone network
• Telecom Operator

• Arktel presses the masses (Rus.) . Kommersant newspaper (February 15, 2008). Date of treatment November 29, 2008. Archived March 22, 2012.