OREANDA-NEWS. On 10 April 2008 COMSTAR – United TeleSystems, the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, announced that it has obtained licenses for communication services in Saint Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, the Saratov Region and the Volgograd Region.

The following services have been licensed:

No.57244 – Intrazone telephony services in Saint Petersburg

No.57245 – Intrazone telephony services in the Saratov Region

No.57246 – Local telephony services, except for the local telephony services using pay telephones and public access equipment in the Leningrad Region

No.57247 – Local telephony services, except for the local telephony services using pay telephones and public access equipment in the Volgograd Region.

The licenses complement the set of licenses the company has for these regions. In particular, in Saint Petersburg COMSTAR-UTS has licenses for data, telematic, local telephony and leased-line services. In the Leningrad Region, COMSTAR-UTS has licenses for data services, while in the Saratov Region those for data, telematic, local telephony and leased-line services. Recently, COMSTAR-UTS has also obtained licenses for data, telematic, local telephony and leased lines services in the Volgograd Region.

Today, COMSTAR-UTS and its subsidiaries have licenses for various communication services in 38 regions of Russia.