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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
CIS Telecommunications Sector: The Rise of the Multinationals
Authors : Alexander Libman, Evgeny Vinokurov
Published in: Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Having looked at electricity, which is a classic example of a sector which ‘holds together’ regional integration, we turn to the telecommunications sector, in which the direct impact of Soviet heritage is very limited, but where regionalization in the FSU has been highly successful. It is the dynamism of private companies that has driven the development of this sector and its transborder links. The telecommunications sector represents a showcase of corporate integration across the post-Soviet area, again driven by private Russian companies aiming to become true multinationals.