Peak hour №1 13.02.1997 (1997)

Dmitry Zimin talks about his own experience of creating a company - how cellular communications were chosen, what preceded it (cable television, satellite communications, development of radar detectors for cars).

Talks about the development of the communications market in Russia and abroad.

About the departure of fellow scientists abroad, and that some of them still return.

Dmitry Zimin talks about the problems the company faced when organizing a business in Russia, how the Beeline standard appeared, about specialists in the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation who were left without work, about attempts to convert military production in the country.

Talks about establishing cooperation with foreign partners, about the company's transition to an international standard.

The issue of the impact of mobile phones on health is raised.

Dmitry Zimin explains the etymology of the term "cellular communications".