OREANDA-NEWS. June 18, 2010. COMSTAR – United TeleSystems (OJSC COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST), the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (MTS – NYSE: MBT), the largest cellular operator in Russia and the CIS, announce the launch of the new service for corporate customers in Moscow oblast. The service titled “FMC-Short Number” enables integration of mobile and office telephones of employees into a full-fledged corporate telephone network with a dedicated range of short numbers.

 “Today we have come up with yet another opportunity powered by technological integration of MTS and COMSTAR-UTS”. Thanks to the service “FMC-Short Number”, our corporate customers will be able to benefit from capabilities of both mobile and fixed networks. As a part of our integration, we are creating a single platform for interaction with our customers to provide a range of unique up-to-date services”, – noted Elena Nechai, MTS Director for Business Market.

COMSTAR-UTS is engaged in active development in the corporate segment of the Moscow telecom market. This convergent offer by market leaders, which enables a combination of mobile and mixed communication and saves money on calls both from a mobile to a fixed telephone number and from a fixed to a mobile telephone number, allows us to propose even more attractive package services to our customers”, – said Roman Akatov, COMSTAR-UTS Commercial Director for Mass Market Operations.

Benefits of the service

Saving time spent by corporate clients to settle business tasks:

Mobility of employees who may always be reached by a short number wherever they are (common short numbers for mobile and office telephones: using this service, employees may call from their mobiles to short numbers of their employees as well as from office handsets to short numbers, including to their mobile phones).

Easy dialing – a common short number is provided both for a mobile and office telephone of an employee.

Sequential redirection of calls to subscriber’s specified numbers in case there is no answer or if the line is busy.

Corporate client’s reduced telecom costs:

Special favorable tariffs of FMC that are lower as compared to standard mobile and fixed communication rates. This enables a considerate reduction of expenses on communication between mobile and office employees, even if the latter work in different branches.

Provision of a broad range of fixed communication services, including special rates for long-distance and international communication.

How “FMC-Short Number” works

To make a call from an employee’s mobile telephone to numbers of his/her company corporate network (and vice versa), a subscriber has to dial prefix 0804 followed by a corporate network short number of a required employee. By default, a short mobile number coincides with last four digits of a federal number. A private numbering plan different from the above may be generated as required.

Enabling the service

The service is provided to corporate subscribers (legal entities) that have concluded a contract for mobile radiotelephone communication services with MTS and a contract for fixed communication services with COMSTAR-UTS (provided if it is technically possible to connect the company to the COMSTAR-UTS network).

Enabling/disabling of the service as well as any changes and addition of numbers are subject to a written application of a corporate client submitted to a personal manager of MTS and/or COMSTAR-UTS.