Reason for abolition Successor Location

Russia Moscow

Key figures Turnover

▲ $1.562 billion (2007)

Operating profit

▲ $485 million (2007)

Net profit

▼ $44 million (2007)

Website

OJSC "COMSTAR - United TeleSystems"(Comstar - United Telesystems) is a Russian telecommunications company. Full name - Open Joint Stock Company "COMSTAR - United TeleSystems". Abbreviated in business terms as “Comstar-UTS”. Headquarters - in Moscow.

Owners and management

Major shareholders:

Since February 2006, 35% of the shares of COMSTAR - United TeleSystems are in circulation on the RTS, MSE and the London Stock Exchange. The company's capitalization as of June 2009 amounted to $1,914 million. USA.

In October 2009, AFK Sistema sold a controlling stake in Comstar (50.91%) to its subsidiary Mobile TeleSystems. The transaction amount was RUB 39.15 billion. MGTS Finance S.A. package (11.06%, Luxembourg) MTS exchanged for 1.6% of its treasury shares

Management

President of OJSC COMSTAR-UTS - Sergey Pridantsev (from June 2007 to March 1, 2011).

From March 1 to April 1, 2011, the acting President was Alexey Kaurov (Vice President for Economics and Finance).

The chairman of the company's board of directors is Ron Sommer.

Symbolism

During its history, the company had two logos:

• In 2004-2006 there was a logo with the word “COMSTAR” and a red tooth, below to the left of the letter “S” is the word “UNITED”, to the right of the letter “S” is the word “TELESYSTEMS”.
• From 2006 to 2010 - a dark blue square with an egg, next to a dark blue square with the word “COMSTAR” (in 2010 there was a gradual move away from an independent brand).

Until 2011, all regional companies (including the companies of the STREAM-TV group, transferred to the Stream brand in 2007) were planned to be transferred under the single Comstar brand. However, on October 13, 2009, MTS announced the purchase of a controlling stake (50.91%) of Comstar, and subsequently, on May 11, 2010, Comstar and MTS announced the transition to a single MTS brand.

By the end of 2011, two brands remained on the Russian market within the MTS Group of Companies (including MTS, COMSTAR-UTS, MGTS) - MTS and MGTS.

Activity

Comstar-UTS served more than 4 million subscribers, providing services voice communication, data transmission, Internet access (including WiMAX technology) and pay television. Comstar owned a digital fiber-optic transport network with a total length of over 6,000 km, covering the entire territory of Moscow.

The company's share (data from Advanced Communications & Media Consulting) in the Moscow broadband market (1st quarter) is 30%.

The company has branches and regional representative offices in Samara, Tolyatti, Saratov, Engels, Orenburg, Nizhnevartovsk, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Sochi, Stavropol, Obninsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, Orel and other cities, as well as Kyiv , Odessa, Armenia. In total, the company provides services in 15 regions of Russia in 82 cities.

Comstar-UTS owned 100% of the shares of Comstar-Direct CJSC, 65.66% of ordinary shares, or 54.72% of the authorized capital of MGTS. In addition, Comstar owned the telecommunications operators DG Tel, Technological Systems (Ukraine) and Kollnet (Armenia). In December 2006, Comstar for $900 million acquired from Mustcom, owned by Leonard Blavatnik, a 17.3% stake in Svyazinvest (a Russian telecommunications company that controls stakes in seven interregional communications companies and Rostelecom), another 7.7% went to a subsidiary of MGTS (MGTS Finance S.A.).

A subsidiary of Comstar-UTS, Comstar-Direct CJSC (formerly MTU-Intel), provided dial-up and broadband Internet access services using ADSL technology under the Stream brand based on the MGTS public data network.

Comstar - Direct

CJSC COMSTAR-Direct (until December 13, 2006 - CJSC MTU-Intel) - a large Russian Internet operator, a subsidiary of COMSTAR-UTS, on April 1, 2011, merged, like the parent company, with MTS OJSC.

Story

MTU-Intel was formed in 1993 as JSC Interlink Holding (later renamed), and on March 1, 1999, began providing dial-up access services to the international network (having received the right to do so from MTU-Inform). On September 18, 2001, the telecommunications operator PTT-Teleport Moscow, which belonged to it, was merged with MTU-Intel CJSC (since 2000, it had been developing an ADSL access project in Moscow for corporate subscribers under the Tochka Ru brand).

In April 2004, MTU-Intel began providing broadband ADSL access to private users under the Stream brand, becoming the leader in the broadband access segment in Moscow in 2005. Since January 2006, television content producer Sistema Multimedia CJSC (whose main shareholder is Comstar-UTS) has been merged with MTU-Intel CJSC, which launched the Stream TV service in Moscow in the spring of 2005.

After this reorganization, shares in the authorized capital of Comstar-Direct CJSC were distributed as follows:

• OJSC Comstar-UTS - 51.819%;
• OJSC Sistema Mass Media - 48.136%;
• CJSC Sistema-Inventure - 0.045%.

For further development trademark "Stream", bringing it to the market of broadband Internet access in Russian regions, AFK "Sistema", which controlled all three shareholders of Comstar Direct, began to develop ideas for reorganizing the company, ultimately deciding to preserve it, transferring all 100 % shares of OJSC Comstar-UTS. At the same time, during the reorganization, many top managers left the company during the summer of 2007. On December 30, 2008, 100% of the shares of Comstar-Direct were consolidated by COMSTAR-UTS.

On April 1, 2011, the Comstar-Direct company, as well as Comstar-UTS, became part of the MTS OJSC company.

Achievements

During the period of independent activity, before renaming to Comstar-Direct, MTU-Intel achieved recognition as an Internet provider:

Activity

COMSTAR-Direct provided broadband Internet access service using ADSL technology, as well as digital interactive IP television services under the STREAM brand based on the MGTS public data network.

Formally, COMSTAR-Direct CJSC owned the STREAM trademark. At the same time, 100% servicing of STREAM service subscribers was provided by COMSTAR-UTS.

Comstar-Regions

In February 2010, Comstar-regions for 220 million rubles. acquired a 100% stake in the authorized capital of the Yaroslavl telecom operator TensorTelecom LLC, the second provider in terms of market share in the city of Yaroslavl (22% at the time of acquisition, 23 thousand subscribers).

In May 2010, sixteen subsidiaries were merged with Comstar-Regions CJSC regional operators Comstar-UTS: Ivanovo Cable Networks CJSC, Inter TV Cable Networks CJSC, Inter-Telecom CJSC, TVK-Sever CJSC, TVK-Soyuznaya CJSC, TVK-Center CJSC, TVK CJSC -Seim", CJSC TVK-Kursk, CJSC TVK-Internet, CJSC Kurant, CJSC TVK, CJSC KTV, CJSC Ural Telephone Company, CJSC Tambov-Telecom, CJSC Maxima Engineering", CJSC "First Perm Internet Center".

In January 2011, ten more regional companies were merged with Comstar-Regions CJSC: Nizhny Novgorod CJSC Sendi Info and TSN CJSC, NPO Vidis CJSC (Dzerzhinsk), Tversvyazinform CJSC, Regional Cable Networks CJSC (Moscow), CJSC Esta Telecom (Kaluga), CJSC Mark TV (Izhevsk), CJSC Trunk (Astrakhan), CJSC TV-Maidan Television Company (Rostov-on-Don), CJSC Infotek ( Ekaterinburg) .

Management

As part of the merger of Comstar with MTS OJSC, top managers of MTS came to the management of COMSTAR-Regions CJSC: on March 1, 2011, the director of the MTS-Russia business unit, Alexander Popovsky, was appointed general director of the company, and commercial director - Dmitry Bagdasaryan, Director for Development of Regional Fixed Business of the MTS Russia Business Unit

COMSTAR-UTS as a long-distance operator began operating in October 2008. And since it is the parent company of the Moscow City Telephone Network, now for subscribers who have chosen COMSTAR as a provider of long-distance and international communication services (LD/IN -services), local and long-distance calls are serviced by virtually one operator. This means that at the end of the month the telephone bill is issued as a total bill. In addition, for regular customers of COMSTAR-UTS, the dialing procedure is simplified, and, equally important, the cost of one minute of telephone connection is reduced (compared to the tariffs of other operators).

However, that's not all. The operator offers its subscribers who choose COMSTAR on an ongoing basis a discount for all long-distance calls in the amount of 20% of the value current tariffs . For example, for users of high-speed Internet access services from STREAM who have chosen COMSTAR-UTS as their permanent long-distance operator, the cost of one minute of long-distance connection when calling from Moscow to the Moscow region or St. Petersburg will be equal to 1 ruble 48 kopecks instead of 1 ruble 85 kopecks. When making an international call to a fixed line phone number in Ukraine, savings will range from 1 ruble 38 kopecks to 1 ruble 18 kopecks for every minute of connection, depending on the day of the week and time of day. This promotion will last a whole year - until June 15, 2010.

Every Muscovite, an MGTS subscriber who needs to call other cities and countries, can become a subscriber to the long-distance operator COMSTAR-UTS. At the same time, it is easy to use the company’s intercity/international services in two ways. The first way is to enter into a permanent service agreement with the operator and make long-distance calls automatically through the usual G8. You can conclude an agreement at any COMSTAR-UTS office or in one of the STREAM sales centers.

The second is if you already have a contract with another company, but would like to change your long-distance service provider. In this case, you just need to come to any of the service centers communications MGTS, which are available in every district of Moscow, and draw up an agreement for the provision of long-distance and international telephone services in the pre-select mode. When drawing up such an agreement, any previously concluded similar agreements, if any, will automatically be cancelled.

Provided that you decide to exercise your right to choose a long-distance and international communication operator for the first time, you just need to call toll free number 8-800-250-23-28 and conclude an offer agreement. Thus, you will entrust all long-distance and international connections to your operator COMSTAR-UTS. If you first want to make sure of the quality and benefits of such calls, the company provides you with this opportunity. For this purpose, there is a “hot choice” mode, that is, the selection of a long-distance operator for each call using special telephone codes. In this case, the dialing order will be as follows. When calling within Russia: 8 - 23 - city code - number of the called subscriber. When calling abroad: 8 - 28 - country code - city code - number of the called subscriber. You can receive information and reference support by calling the COMSTAR-UTS OJSC number, uniform for all regions of the Russian Federation. 8-800-250-23-28 . The call is free.

Service technical support MTS Home Internet works for the provider’s clients around the clock and without interruptions. Please contact the numbers below if you encounter any problems with your Internet connection or operation. digital television.

Unified toll-free telephone number for MTS Home Internet and Television subscriber support service:

8800 250 0890

You can call the number hotline“MTS Home Internet” is completely free, from any mobile or landline phone. The MTS-Dom technical support service operates around the clock and without interruptions.

How to connect to home Internet from MTS?

For questions connections to home Internet and television from MTS, call 8800 250 00 50 (free call). subscribers mobile communications MTS.

To receive personal information from technical support staff, changes tariff plan or connecting additional paid services, please be prepared to provide your passport details and code word. MTS support operator?

"Personal account" of an MTS subscriber

Personal Area MTS subscriber allows you to access your account, pay for services without commission, as well as connect and disconnect various services - high-definition television, increase the speed of Internet access, activate antivirus protection and much more.

Login to your Personal Account “MTS Home Internet and Television”

If you cannot log into your Personal Account or have difficulty managing your services, please contact the customer support service for help using a single toll-free number 8 800 250 0890 (for all regions of Russia). Be prepared to provide the help desk employee with personal information to access personal data and manage your account.

Settings and online support

When changing a computer or router, the Internet will not work until you provide the MAC address of the new equipment by calling technical support 8 800 250 0890. All instructions and settings for setup operating system Windows and other additional equipment are located on the official MTS website, in the Settings section.

Can't figure out the settings yourself? Contact technical support:

• By toll free phone 8800 250 0890
• Find the settings in the Equipment and parameters section on the official MTS website

Please, when contacting help desk technical support, try to describe your problem in as much detail as possible. The more accurate the description, the faster and more efficient the specialists contact center MTS will be able to solve your problem.

Regions in which MTS Home Internet and Television operates

To connect to the MTS Home Internet and Television network, you can leave a request on the official website www.mts.ru/dom/ or call 8800 250 00 50 (toll-free call).

Connection to Home Internet from MTS is produced in the following cities of Russia:

Adygea (Republic of Adygea) - Maykop, Alania (Republic of North Ossetia - Alania), Vladikavkaz, Altai (Republic of Altai) - Gorno-Altaisk, Altai Territory - Barnaul, Amur Region - Blagoveshchensk, Arkhangelsk Region, Astrakhan Region.
Balashikha, Bashkortostan (Republic of Bashkortostan) - Ufa, Belgorod region, Biysk, Bryansk region, Buryatia (Republic of Buryatia) - Ulan-Ude.
Vladimir region, Volgograd region, Vologda region, Voronezh region.
Dagestan (Republic of Dagestan) - Makhachkala.
Jewish Autonomous Region - Birobidzhan.
Transbaikal region - Chita.
Ivanovo region, Ingushetia (Republic of Ingushetia) - Magas, Irkutsk region.
Kabardino-Balkarian Republic - Nalchik, Kaliningrad region, Kalmykia (Republic of Kalmykia) - Elista, Kaluga region, Kamchatka region - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Karachay-Cherkess Republic - Cherkessk, Karelia (Republic of Karelia) - Petrozavodsk, Kemerovo region, Kirov region, Komi (Komi Republic) - Syktyvkar, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Kostroma region, Krasnodar region and the Republic of Adygea - Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Sochi, Krasnoyarsk region - Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk region - Norilsk, Kurgan region, Kursk region.
Lipetsk region.
Magadan region, Magnitogorsk, Mari El (Republic of Mari El) - Yoshkar-Ola, Miass, Mordovia (Republic of Mordovia) - Saransk, Moscow and Moscow region, Murmansk region.
Nenets Autonomous Okrug - Naryan-Mar, Nizhny Novgorod Region - Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod Region - Veliky Novgorod, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk Region.
Omsk region, Orenburg region, Oryol region.
Penza region, Perm region, Primorsky region - Vladivostok, Pskov region.
Rostov region - Rostov-on-Don, Ryazan region.
Samara region, St. Petersburg, Leningrad region, Saratov region, Sakha (Yakutia) (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)) - Yakutsk, Sakhalin region - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sverdlovsk region - Yekaterinburg, Sergiev Posad, Smolensk region, Sosnovy Bor, Stavropol Territory .
Tambov region, Tatarstan (Republic of Tatarstan) - Kazan, Tver region, Tobolsk, Tomsk region, Tula region, Tyva (Republic of Tyva) - Kyzyl, Tyumen region.
Udmurtia (Udmurt Republic) - Izhevsk, Ulyanovsk region.
Khabarovsk Territory, Khakassia (Republic of Khakassia) - Abakan, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra - Khanty-Mansiysk.
Chelyabinsk region, Chekhov, Chechen Republic, Chuvash Republic - Cheboksary, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Anadyr.
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug - Salekhard, Yaroslavl region.

Home high-speed network coverage area unlimited internet is constantly expanding. Information on the regional presence, web addresses and telephone numbers of “Home MTS” is current as of August 2018. Behind detailed information contact the official website www.mts.ru or the support service of your telecommunications provider.

On December 4, 2009, the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of COMSTAR-UTS OJSC decided to elect a new board of directors of the company. The new board of directors includes:

• 1. Ulf Bakkmeyer, Deputy Director of the MTS – Russia business unit for finance of MTS OJSC;
• 2. Thomas Winkler, Vice President of the Telecommunications Assets business unit of AFK Sistema;
• 3. Mikhail Gerchuk, Vice President for Commerce of MTS OJSC,
• 4. Konstantin Markov, director of the Moscow macro-region of MTS OJSC;
• 5. Sergey Pridantsev, President of COMSTAR-UTS OJSC;
• 6. Yngve Rödling, Chairman of the Swedish-Russian/CIS Chamber of Commerce;
• 7. Michael Hecker, Vice President for Strategy and Corporate Development of MTS OJSC;
• 8. Thomas Holtrop, member of the board of directors of Gruner and Jahr;
• 9. Mikhail Shamolin, President of MTS OJSC.

Finance

• The consolidated revenue of the Group of Companies for the first half of 2010 amounted to US$ 818.1 million, the OIBDA margin was 42%.

Infrastructure

As of July 2010, Comstar's international Internet network is connected to the global Internet at several major hubs in London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, Los Angeles and New York.

Subscriber base

In the second quarter of 2010, the number of Comstar pay TV subscribers in Moscow decreased to 121 thousand users against 133 thousand a year ago, the number corporate users broadband services over the same period decreased from 48 thousand to 45 thousand. In the alternative segment of communication services in the Moscow region, which is represented by Comstar itself and its subsidiary Comstar-Direct ( trademark"Stream"), the total number of subscribers of all types of communication services (fixed telephone communications, broadband access, long-distance and international communications) over the past 12 months has decreased both among individuals- from 632 thousand to 568 thousand, and among corporate clients- from 29 thousand to 28 thousand.

In non-capital regions the picture is completely opposite. Over the 12 months from June 2009, the number of individual Comstar broadband subscribers increased by more than one and a half times, to 495 thousand people, the number of pay TV users also increased, although only by 5%, to 2.06 million. It became more in the regions and corporate broadband users: their number increased by 10%, to 30 thousand.

The subscriber base of COMSTAR-UTS in Moscow as of the end of the 2nd quarter of 2010 amounts to 3.6 million residential telephone subscribers, including 867 thousand residential broadband subscribers in the capital, as well as 2.7 million residential subscribers in the regions of Russia and the CIS, including 495 thousand residential broadband subscribers and 2.1 million pay television subscribers.

Development strategy

Comstar President Sergei Pridantsev is confident that the main growth potential of the subscriber base now lies in the regions. Therefore, the company intends to take special measures to promote services there. First of all, regional networks will be modernized by introducing fiber-to-the-building (FTTB) technology into them, which will increase capacity and throughput networks to provide users with more high speeds data transmission. By the end of 2010, it is planned to provide this technology to 80% of the 4.34 million households that have the ability to connect to the Comstar network in the regions.

There will also be a smooth transition of regional networks to work under the MTS brand to use the marketing potential of this well-known brand.

In the regions, Comstar intends to penetrate the apartments of potential users using pay TV, which, according to Pridantsev, is in great demand there. Then Comstar will offer other services to subscribers who have connected to this service - broadband access and telephone communications. True, there is a serious obstacle to the spread of broadband access outside the capital: low prevalence personal computers. Comstar intends to solve this problem by offering users special set-top boxes that allow them to access the Internet through a regular TV. Such a set-top box can be connected to any cable through which a television signal is delivered to the apartment, and then connected to the TV. The same cable is used to connect to the Internet access network. You can work with the set-top box by connecting a regular wired or wireless computer keyboard, the monitor is the TV screen.

It is planned to rent out such set-top boxes to subscribers who have connected to broadband services at a symbolic price of 20 rubles. per month. Such a measure, according to Comstar, should attract those who already use pay TV to broadband services in the regions. Comstar intends to begin sales of Internet set-top boxes for televisions at the end of 2010 - the first half of 2011.

Story

2010: Joining MTS

• In June 2010, the boards of directors of the companies " Mobile Telesystems(MTS) and Comstar - United TeleSystems recommended shareholders to carry out their reorganization by merging Comstar with MTS. The transaction will be submitted for consideration to extraordinary meetings of shareholders of both companies, which will be held on December 23, 2010.

The merger is planned to be carried out by converting Comstar shares into MTS shares, while for one Comstar share it will be possible to receive 0.825 MTS shares. This ratio implies a premium of 7.7% to the volume-weighted average for the last three months of the conversion rate of MTS ordinary shares into Comstar global depositary receipts (GDRs). One Comstar GDR corresponds to one of its ordinary shares.

Minority shareholders of Comstar have two options for what to do with their shares. MTS, if approved by Federal service on stock markets, plans to announce a voluntary offer to buy out 37.6 million shares of Comstar (9% of its authorized capital) at a price of $7.16 (220 rubles) per GDR. This price is 13.1% higher than the volume-weighted average market price of Comstar GDRs over the past three months. If the offer goes through, it will cost MTS $270 million. However, Finam Investment Company analyst Eldar Vagabov does not recommend Comstar shareholders accept the offer. “Taking into account the positive effect of the merger of companies, the offered premium does not seem to be sufficient compensation for exiting capital, so it is better to choose conversion into MTS shares,” says the analyst.

The offer is necessary for MTS in order to avoid the appearance of minority shareholders of Comstar who disagree with the reorganization, because in order to carry out the transaction it is necessary to obtain the consent of at least 75% of the shareholders of both companies. MTS now owns 62% of Comstar shares, and 52.9% of MTS shares belong to AFK Sistema. The size of the voluntary offer of 9% was calculated on the condition that AFK Sistema remain the controlling shareholder of MTS after the reorganization.

Shareholders of both Comstar and MTS, who will vote against the merger or will not take part in the voting at all, will be able to submit their securities for mandatory redemption if the reorganization does take place. The MTS Board of Directors set the buyout price at RUB 245.19. for one share of his company, the board of directors of Comstar - 212.85 rubles. respectively. The price at which the securities of dissenting Comstar shareholders will be purchased is 3.3% lower than the cost that MTS offers to Comstar shareholders as part of a voluntary offer. The cost of buying out shares of minority shareholders will amount to $1.03 billion.

The proposed transaction scheme was drawn up by a special committee of independent directors under the board of directors of Comstar, which made its conclusions based on Ernst & Young’s estimates regarding the repurchase price of shares of both companies. The legal advisor to MTS is Latham & Watkins, MTS is Linkleters. MTS's financial advisor is Goldman Sachs, and the conclusion on the fairness of the transaction was presented to the committee of independent directors of Comstar by J.P. Morgan.

MTS became the controlling shareholder of Comstar a year ago, having acquired 51% of the operator’s shares for $1.32 billion from its “parent” structure, AFK Sistema. In May 2010, it was announced that most Comstar services would be transferred under the MTS brand. True, there has still been no talk of a takeover of Comstar; moreover, MTS did not even make an offer to buy out shares from Comstar’s minority shareholders (the offer could have been refused due to the affiliation of the parties involved in the transaction). Now MTS has decided that the merger with Comstar will provide greater synergy than the initially planned $200 million, since it will allow MTS to directly provide pay television and broadband Internet access services.

The general director of the analytical agency Rustelecom, Yuri Bryukvin, calls the decision made correct. “Without a complete merger of companies, the unification of subscriber bases will be only virtual, and there will also be legal risks associated with the transfer of personal data of subscribers from one subsidiary to the parent company,” says Bryukvin. “But the course of events confirms the version that MTS’s deal with Comstar was initially planned to replenish the budgets of AFK Sistema, and only then did the company begin to think about carrying out full integration.”

MTS is copying the experience of VimpelCom, which in 2008 acquired 100% of the shares of Golden Telecom for $4.24 billion and immediately began merging companies, says CNews Analytics expert Alexander Moroshkin. “True, no one has experience in merging such huge structures, and the declared synergistic effect from the merger of Comstar with MTS was never achieved,” he recalls. “In the case of Comstar, integration will be even more difficult due to its confusing structure.”

• Comstar-UTS announced the completion of work to modernize the communication center of its international IP network in Stockholm (Sweden). As part of the upgrade, a new high-performance Cisco ASR 9000 router was installed.

“The communication center in Stockholm is one of the most important for organizing the Comstar-UTS foreign IP network: it is one of the Comstar gateways in global network Internet. Modernization of equipment allows the operator to create a better mechanism for providing services and guarantee uninterrupted operation of the communication network,” said Viktor Belov, director for development of service platforms and networks at Comstar-UTS. – In such projects, the choice of equipment supplier is important. Cisco's new high-performance platform will enable the European backbone segment to transition to new 100 Gigabit Ethernet transport technologies in the future."

"Comstar - United TeleSystems" (JSC "COMSTAR - UTS", LSE: CMST) - largest operator integrated telecommunications services in Russia and the CIS.

The COMSTAR-UTS Group of Companies includes Moscow City telephone network"(MGTS), the leader of the capital's fixed-line market, as well as "STREAM-TV", a leading provider of cable TV services and Internet access in the regions of Russia. COMSTAR-UTS is a leader in the market of broadband Internet access and interactive digital television (IP-TV) services in Moscow.

Subsidiaries and branches of COMSTAR-UTS operate in the largest regions in 6 Federal districts of the Russian Federation (Central, Northwestern, Southern, Volga, Ural, Siberian), including in the Moscow, Ryazan regions, St. Petersburg, Samara , Saratov, Orenburg, Rostov, Tyumen regions(including Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk region, Krasnodar region, etc. In addition, COMSTAR-UTS has telecommunications assets in Armenia and Ukraine.

The main shareholder of COMSTAR-UTS is Joint-Stock Financial Corporation (JSFC) Sistema. Since February 2006, 35% of the shares of COMSTAR - United TeleSystems are in circulation on the RTS, MSE and the London Stock Exchange.

Based on its own multi-service communication network, COMSTAR-UTS provides a full range of the most modern telecommunications services and integrated solutions to consumers in all market segments: from private users to large corporations with an extensive network of branches. A powerful technological and professional resource allows us to provide the company’s clients and partners with the necessary package of services, taking into account the specifics of their life needs and business conditions. The operator carries out projects to install telephones in offices, create full-scale corporate networks communications, comprehensive telecommunications equipment for residential and commercial real estate, and also offers a full range of products for home use(Triple Play), including telephony, high-speed Internet access and pay TV.

Comstar Internet

The optimal scheme for organizing Comstar Internet access individually for each client, using a variety of technical approaches, makes it possible to organize Comstar Internet communications even in difficult cases. Connection to the Comstar Internet network can be at any speed up to 100 Mbit/s. Using Comstar Internet provides the ability to simultaneously connect any number of computers to the network and no problems with organizing the “last mile”