CHAO “Datagroup” December 23 bought two regional asset – “Global Telecommunication System” (Dnepropetrovsk) “Diptaun” (Sevastopol).
The company “Diptaun” provides Internet subscribers from Sebastopol and the GTS subscribers from Dnepropetrovsk. The subscriber base is about 900 first person, the second more than 9,000 subscribers. Infrastructure Diptaun is 12 km of copper cable and optical 9 km. Prior to that, only company servicing corporate clients, now also provides access to the Internet and for individuals.
Transaction “GTS” includes purchasing business of the company, which has to its credit 115 km and 800 km of optical brass of outside plant.
According to the head of Alexander Danchenko, the company has no plans to expand at the expense of other assets, and plans to develop them separately.
Recall that in late summer 2010, it was announced that in 2010 the company management equity fund “Horizon Capital” is investing in the company “Datagroup” up to $ 40 million This investment fund is made EEGF II of $ 390 million, which was established in 2008 and is the third investment for the company’s “Horizon Capital” since the beginning of the year. Over the next two years, “Datagroup” will work together with the “Horizon Capital”, to attract further investment in the company of up to $ 100 million This investment will be mainly focused on the development of networks of fixed broadband access (BBA), which is currently most promising direction of development of the Ukrainian telecom industry. The company also announced plans to invest in the purchase of several regional operators.
According to the preliminary financial statements for the year 2010, the company has more than 2-fold increased profit to 16.3 mln., Net income, net of VAT amounts to 409 mln. (393.2 mln. – 2009). At present the company’s share in the professional transfer dannyah 27%, up 3% over the same period in 2009. In the satellite communications segment, the proportion of “Datagroup” in the CIS is 64%.