Rostelecom + Tele2 Russia =?

Oleg Salmanov in “Vedomosti” today (December 12) put an article “The government approved the creation of a new federal telecommunications operator ”, from which the reader learns with interest that, at the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Dvorkovich (given yesterday in writing), representatives of the Russian state Rostelecom Board of Directors will vote for a deal aimed at consolidating Rostelecom's mobile assets into a joint venture with Tele2 Russia.

The Board of Directors of Rostelecom to discuss the creation of a joint venture was appointed at 17:00 - so, presumably, it is going right now.

It’s time to recall the Pushkin lines about the horse and the quivering doe: the Internet by wire from Rostelecom in many small cities of Russia acted like cancer for bezrybe, while the cellular communication from Tele2, on the contrary, became known as an alternative to the domination of the Big Three. What will come of combining them?