The state-owned Russian Post company plans to receive USD400 million in revenues from new services by 2006, the company’s acting director Igor Syrtsov told a news conference Wednesday.
In 2002 the revenues from these Internet-related services accounted for 3% of the postal service’s total revenues.
Read MoreRussia’s postal industry took 28 billion rubles in sales in 2002, up 26.7% on the year, according to materials prepared for the Communications and IT Ministry’s board meeting Tuesday.
The postal service’s core activities generated 19.2 billion rubles in sales in 2002, up 28.1% on the year.
Read MoreRussia now has around 6,600 public-access internet terminals in post offices across the country, says Ilya Genkin of the postal-services department of the Russian Communications Ministry.
Read MoreRussia’s telecommunications and postal industry took in 285.5 billion rubles in sales in 2002, up 15.6% on the year, the State Statistics Committee reported Monday.
Read MoreThe Communications Ministry on Friday increased tariffs for postal services from 3.25 rubles (10 cents) to 3.7 rubles for unregistered letters and from 2.45 rubles to 2.75 rubles for unregistered postcards.
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