WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 136 / 356
5.3.4.3 Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is a division of the Japanese colossus Mitsubishi, based in
Tokyo. The firm, established on 1921, manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as
well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels.
Mitsubishi Electric launched the first compact PLC on the European market 25 years ago. In
the last years the Japanese company supplied the “Cézár” building and the “Mediterrán”
residential park, in Budapest (Hungary), with its technology, providing a 70 Mbps connection
to 550 flats of the residence.
5.3.4.4 BIT Telecom
Bit Telecom is a company with private capital whose mission is to activate the main
telecommunication services on the Rumanian territory.
Together with Radiocom and Electrica, BIT Telecom supplied the necessary knowledge and
equipment to realized the first Romanian PLC pilot-trial in the village of Band, in Mures
County, where 10 PCs of the local school were connected through the PLC technology.
5.3.4.5 Electro-com
[E06] Electro-Com (PLT Electro-Com, Ltd or Company) is an independent licensed Russian
telecommunications operator that provides Broadband access and alternative telephone
services to consumers and small businesses in Russia, through Power Line
Communications "last mile solutions." It operates under the "Spark" brand.
Electro-Com is organized in Cyprus, and is an independent licensed Russian
telecommunications operator that offers SOHO and Residential subscriber telephony,
Internet access, and IP-TV (triple play) services. A holding company, ZAO Electro-Com
is located in Moscow, and has operating subsidiaries which are either 100% owned,
or majority owned and managed by the holding company.
Through PLC technology and Fiber-to-the-Building-Network, the Company provides
broadband services in 5 separate Russian Markets including Moscow, Rostov, Ryazan,
Kaluga and Nizhny Novgorod. It has already connected over 150,000 apartments in