OREANDA-NEWS. On 22 February 2008 was announced, that with the approval of its Board of Directors, OJSC "MegaFon" would register 100% owned subsidiary CJSC "MegaFon International", which will deal with foreign projects. Alexey Nichiporenko, Megafon’s First Deputy CEO, was appointed as the General Director of MegaFon International.

"MegaFon has one international subsidiary in Tajikistan, and we consider international markets, both those of CIS and of other developing countries, to be one of the possible directions of our development. OJSC "MegaFon" Board of Directors decided to set up an affiliated subsidiary as this business area will get now more attention than previously", said A. Nichiporenko, General Director of MegaFon International.

Over recent years MegaFon has followed attentively the market and studied the emerging offers.
At the end of January representatives of the company visited Iran, where they met the government officials.
 
"MegaFon plans to open a representation office in Iran. We consider possibilities of long-term investments in Iran's telecommunications sector and we'll support these opportunities by opening our representation office in the country", pointed out Alexey Nichiporenko.