The service was already launched in Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Tomsk, Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk, and it is available to all TTK-WS Internet Service package subscribers. The customer has no need to purchase additional equipment to watch TV on computer screens using special software. The signal arrives into the computer of the user through the already installed fiber-optic cable. This technology makes it possible for the user to surf the Internet and simultaneously watch interesting TV broadcasts in digital quality. At present TTK-WS offers more than 20 channels, including Vesty, REN TV, MIR, 2x2, Amazing Life, Style TV, Music Box, Humor TV, Bibigon, and others.
TenzorTelecom, an Internet provider of the Central Federal District, which, according to experts estimates, holds the second position in the market share (22%) of Yaroslavl, and the first position among the alternative operators of the city. TenzorTelecom offers, besides Ethernet based Internet access, telephony services. The customer base of TenzorTelecom exceeds 23 thousand subscribers. The company owns its own fiber-optic network, comprising 170 km of the city trunk line, and 280 km of the distribution network.
The number of AKADO-Stolitsa analogous television subscribers increased 8.5% during the first 9 months of 2009, reaching 1 mln., the company press release informs. AKADO-Stolitsa broadband access subscription base grew by 10% to 650 thousand people. The digital TV subscription base grew by 11% to 405 thousand people.
Comstar – United TeleSystems, an integrated telecommunication services operator, declared that its South Branch, Comstar-OTS, has put a cable TV network into commercial operation in Sochi. The network is capable to serve more than 3 thousand subscribers.
Comstar-OTS, a major operator of integrated telecommunication services in Russia and CIS, is restructuring its business in the Central Federal District. To restructure its regional business and create an integral center consolidating regional assets of Comstar-OTS, the company forms its Central Macrobranch with a management center in Moscow, while centers for communication cervices will be organized in nine cities of the Central Federal District on the basis of former Comstar-OTS branches.
Within the framework of the agreement with Samara mayor’s office OOO Pyaty Put, ZAO R-Telecom company, OOO TELENET, OOO TV Service and the Samara branch of OOO Volga Telecom introduced “social packages” of cable TV. The municipal utilities reduced optic fiber network placement rent by almost 20% on Samaragorsvet supports.
DalSvyaz, a telecom service provider in the Russian Far East, states that it has 50,000 subscribers of interactive IPTV service. DalSvyaz signed its first interactive IPTV subscribers in 2006, and by mid 2008 their number grew to 25,000 customers. DalSvyaz’s interactive IPTV package includes 75 channels, a video-on-demand service with a library of copyrighted movies, Internet access and video games. The interactive IPTV service in available in Primorsk, Amur, and Kamchatka Oblast, and will become available in Magadan and Sakhalin Oblast in June 2009.
Information agency Rosbalt-Petersburg reports that St. Petersburg Cable TV Company raised its basic digital TV monthly subscription price from RUR 290 to RUR 340 starting March 1. Rosbalt –Petersburg reports that pricing increase is a result of the cable operator passing on directly to its customers the increased licensing costs of foreign programming. These licensing fees collected by Western content owners are calculated in dollar value, which has significantly increased due to the Russian ruble devaluation. Basic programming package offered by St. Petersburg Cable is comprised of 65 channels, half of which deliver Western content.
Akado-Stolitsa made an announcement that it had completed phase one of its network modernization plan. At this stage, the company upgraded the Ethernet segment of the network that provided Internet connectivity to 19 city districts of Moscow. At the next stage, which has already been started in select Moscow districts and should be completed in August, the company will upgrade the apartment building networks acquired between 2006-2008, as well as the older DOCSIS segments of its own network.
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