OREANDA-NEWS. On 30 June 2008 was announced, that the number of subscribers of CenterTelecom OJSC's broadband Internet access service based on хDSL technology, offered under the DOMOLINK brand, has reached more than 440,000 users.

In particular for the January-June 2008 period, the number of new subscribers connected to the Internet through xDSL technology exceeded 140,000 people. According to the company’s commercial plans, the sales plan for Internet access services for 2008 has already reached 30% of its target. According to CenterTelecom management's estimates by late 2008 the number of DOMOLINK subscribers will exceed 730,000 users. This will bring the company's share in the Russian Central Federal District (CFD) market of Internet access services based on xDSL-technology to 47% against 37% for 2007.

Implementation of the DOMOLINK program is one of the company's priority strategic directions focused on implementation of new technologies, provision of high quality telecommunications services to the population of CFD, along with improvement of the sales and maintenance system.

Currently CenterTelecom offers this service through 14 regional branches in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kostroma, Lipetsk, Moscow, Orel, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl regions.

In future CenterTelecom plans to provide not only high speed Internet on the basis of xDSL technology but also a number of interactive services such as IP TV, network games, VoD, PVR, etc.