Comstar now offers Russia Long-Distance Services

COMSTAR – United TeleSystems, the big Russian integrated telecommunications operator, says that it now has in its hands on the necessary access codes to enable them to provide long distance telephony services.

In July the Russian regulating authority, the Ministry of Justice, decreed that the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications should grant the company the access codes that allow inter-city and international telecommunications connections.

Comstar popped the Champagne yesterday when the all important inter-city services code “23” and code “28” for international services finally dropped through their proverbial letter box.

Comstar needed the codes to enable them to launch their long distance service which will allow them to become a multi-service operator.

This will give Comstar a distinct competitive edge, as they will be able to provide local, inter-zonal, inter-city and international telephony services, as well as broadband internet access, IPTV services and other data transmission related solutions.

Comstar had already “bitten the bullet” by investing US $14 million in building a Next Generation long distance network, which enables the provision of voice and multimedia services. The NGN network has been implemented on the Nortel softswitch, Communication Server 2000 technology platform.

About Comstar
Comstar UTS is a fixed-line telecommunications company in Moscow.

Comstar provides voice, data, television and other value-added services to residential and corporate subscribers and operators, using its extensive backbone network and exclusive last mile access to 97% of Moscow households.

The Company also offers communications services in five Russian regions, Armenia and Ukraine.

Comstar has 3.6 million residential subscribers and 750 thousand residential broadband internet subscribers in Moscow, as well as 40 thousand residential regional and international broadband internet subscribers at the end of March 2008.

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