OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2009. The XII International Forum was opened in Tomsk. Sibirtelecom was the Forum partner.

Again Tomsk has become the place for discussing the problems of innovation economics and business development. Over 1,000 representatives take part in the Forum, including business elite, diplomatic missions of foreign countries, leaders of investment companies, managers of venture and innovation funds, leaders of banking society, and representatives of scientific community.

As a leading telecom operator in Siberia, Sibirtelecom actively participates in the development of innovation business in the Siberian region. “Telecommunications are a high-technology industry whose development directly depends on innovations,” says Aleksey Makhorin, Director of the Tomsk branch of Sibirtelecom OJSC. “Sibirtelecom constantly upgrades the networks, develops new services to increase the life quality of the Siberians and to develop business of our customers. These services are digital television, services of intelligent networks and next generation networks (NGN). The innovation Forum makes it possible to discuss the problems and prospects of innovation development in Russia and in the world and to exchange the experience.”

At the Forum Sibirtelecom will traditionally establish communications channels, provide wire and wireless Internet access to the participants.

Sibirtelecom managers will participate in the roundtable discussions of development of modern telecommunications in Siberia. The Company is actively involved in the processes related to innovation economics, taking part in the Federal priority projects, programs of development of regional telecommunication infrastructure.