OREANDA-NEWS. On 13 February 2009 was announced, that according to preliminary data, the number of STC’s broadband Internet users more than doubled and reached 351,000 in 2008.

Traditionally, the most active users of the World Wide Web are to be found at the Krasnodar and Rostov branches of the company.  The subscriber bases in these cities stand at 110,000 and 92,000, respectively.  The number of subscribers at the Olympic capital of Sochi nearly tripled to about 15,000 in 2008.

The 200,000th high-speed Internet subscriber at STC signed up for the DISEL brand in April 2008, and the 300,000th signed up last December.  The company intends to boost the number of broadband Internet users to 500,000 in 2009.