There are about one third main productive founds of Western Siberia.

Kemerovo region is the great industrial area, the base for economic development of Siberia as well as Russia.
Nowadays Kuzbass has 44% of coal mining in the country, more than 77% of all coking coal mining.
As for the whole group of valuable coking coal the percentage is 100. Besides, today Kuzbass for Russia means more than 13% of cast iron and steel, 23% of high quality steel rolling, more than 11% of aluminum and 17% of coking coal, 53% of ferrosilicon, 100% of mining scraper conveyors.

Kemerovo region exports 1200 kinds of industrial production such as coal, coking coal, rolled metal, cast iron, aluminium, zinc, ferroalloys, slate, cement, glass, nitrogen fertilizers, plastic, chemical fibres, synthetic pitchs, electrotechnical production and heavy engineering industry production.

• The West-Siberian metallurgical combine - production of steel, pig iron, rolled steel.
• Kuznetsk metallurgical combine - production of rails, beams channels, sheet, transformer, and ball-beating steel.
• Aluminium plant
• Ferro-alloy plant

• " Azot " - production of fertilisers.
• "Chimprom" ( chemical production ) - production of acids, alkalies.
• Koksochimicheskiy plant
• "Tokem"- production of various resins.
• "Organic", "Purin"- pharmaceutical production.

10 big electric power stations generate 24 mlrd kilowatt hour of electric power and 22 mln GCal of thermal energy. Power system of Kemerovo region is connected with other power systems of Siberia. About 80 thousand people are engaged in rower industry.

Foreign Capital

In Kuzbass there are 150 joint ventures. The share of capital of foreign countries makes up 46%. The main partners are the enterprises of Germany, USA, China, Austria, Turkey, CIS and Baltic.

Financial infrastructure

The leading banks working in the region:

• Sberbank of Russia
• Ural-Siberian bank
• Kuzbassugolbank (Kuzbass Coal Bank)
• MDM-Bank
• Bank of Moscow
• Sibacadembank

The leading insurance companies:

• Komestra
• Argus
• Bask
• Rost

Transportation

The Trans-Siberian Railway and transport main lines lie through Kemerovo region.
Transport system of Kuzbass makes up 6,1 thousand km of railways. Railway freight transportation makes up about 800 mln tons of freight and 50 mln passengers.

The length of the main roads in the region is 8,4 thousand km. There are more than 40 thousand cars in the region. The amount of freight transportation makes up 200 mln tons of freight per year.

There are two international airports in the region - Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk. Recently Kemerovo airport upgraded its passengers' terminal making it matching to European standards.

Regional Wireless Communications Market

Provision of urban population with telephone communication of common use makes up 36 %, rural population - 21 %. Communication capacity and quality of transmission fall behind from the growth of industrial potential and from needs of users, especially in countryside.

The services of intertown and international telephone connection are rendered by the enterprise "Electrosviaz"LTD. Satellite communication is used by coal enterprises and by banks.

There are four operators in Kuzbass cellular market.

• «Kuzbass Cellular Communications» is an operator of Sotel Federal Cellular network of NMT-450i standard.
  Having about 15,000 subscribers in Sotel network in Kemerovo region, the company provided reliable communication to the area of 18,000 sq km in Kemerovo region, roaming with more than 600 cities of Russia and 15 foreign countries.
  It has got 22 base stations.
• «Kemerovo mobile communications» («Tele2»- brand) is the local AMPS/DAMPS operator.
  The company provides cellular communication services in Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk.
• «Kedr» company is the regional GSM-900 operator. It operates only in Kemerovo.
• «BeeLine», GSM 900-1800 standard, cellular communication services in Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk.

Existing dispatch radio services

There are different types of dispatch radio services:

• On railway transport - conventional channel 150 MHz, the number of subscribers - 100, in five years it is expected to be - 1000.
• At mining enterprises - conventional channel 40 MHz, the number of subscribers - 2000, it is expected to be - 7000.
• At power enterprises - conventional channel 150 MHz, the number of subscribers - 500, it is expected to be - 5000.
• At motor transport enterprises - conventional channel 150MHz, the number of subscribers - 600, it is expected to be - 3000.
• Militia - conventional channel 150 MHz, the number of subscribers - 2000, it is expected to be - 5000. Summary

- The enough level of income per user which offers to utilize this kind of services,

- The majority of population lives in the cities. It gives an opportunity to build and develop any communication networks with maximum efficiency.

That is why, non-matured radio market and the developed industrial infrastructure are opening the large possibilities for direct investments in the communication business of Kemerovo Region.