Multi Digital Services (resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT Cluster) demonstrated a platform allowing virtual operators to provide their subscribers with LTE quality communications and local rates in 100+ countries of the world at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The first commercial launch will be carried out by the European virtual operator CountryCom as early as this spring. Its subscribers will be able to obtain high quality mobile communications services not only in their home region, but all over the world. Russia's Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Rashid Ismailov examines the Multi Digital Sevices solution at the Skolkovo booth at MWC17 The innovative solution developed by Multi Digital Services includes “over-the-air” mobile profile downloading, convenient interfaces for purchasing mobile services packages and Global Mobile Data Exchange for accessing services rendered by dozens of cellular mobile operators worldwide. Any operator who has installed the Multi Digital Services platform will be able to sell its services to other exchange participants. For example, subscribers of an Asian participant, when coming to Europe, are automatically switched on to a European participant’s network without changing their SIM card and domestic number. Thus, the subscribers are given an option either to use the customary expensive roaming during their trips or to buy services via Multi Digital Services platform with a single click. Direct connection to the provider who is the exchange participant allows for obtaining LTE quality and local rates (not exceeding 10 Euro per 1 GB) in more than 100 countries worldwide. Oleg Pravdin, founder of Multi Digital Services project: “This solution represents a possibility for relatively small operators to find their clients all over the world and to compete with large operators at equal terms. While the convenient interfaces provided by the platform allow for arranging quick integration with the operator’s billing, personal account and mobile application.” Dmitry Khodkov, Head of Telecommunications, IT Cluster, Skolkovo Foundation: “Mobile communications have become living essentials for billions of people worldwide. And the task the operators are facing is to provide these people with the highest quality services at affordable prices anywhere in the world.” About the Skolkovo Foundation The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with the objective of accelerating Russia’s transformation from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective, the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, composed of more than 1,500 high-tech startups, Skolkovo Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech) - a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together, these entities establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. The cumulative revenue of Skolkovo’s startups through June 2016 reached $1,6 billion. They brought in more than $350 million in investment, creating 21,800 jobs and filing over 1,900 patent applications along the way. By 2020 over 2 million square meters of residential and office space will be built in Skolkovo with 35,000 people working daily in the Innovation Center. For more information:http://www.sk.ru/en Press Contact Skolkovo Taisiya Yarmak +79166948826 tyarmak@sk.ru