OREANDA-NEWS. November 06, 2012. Enforta, a national communication service provider, announced the launch of a next phase of geographic expansion that includes 150 towns located in all the eight federal districts of the Russian Federation.
 
 The company selected small towns with population of up to 150,000 and located nearby larger ones, where Enforta has already been rendering communication services. The company selected towns where no high-quality communications have ever been offered and where Enforta's existing network Customers, both national and regional, and medium and small businesses have unsatisfied demand for communications services.
 
 In these towns, Enforta will provide services using the "satellite" model, that is, the company will deploy a network providing a capability for services rendered by the staff of the nearest branches and sales offices.
 
 As part of this phase of its geographic expansion, the company proposes to connect the populated localities at 3 stages: 50 towns in March, 50 in May, and 50 in June 2013. In the next 5 years it plans to connect, on average, 150 offices of corporate Customers in each of the towns.
 
 Investments in project implementation will amount to 1.5 billion rubles. The forecast payback period of the project is less than 5 years.
 
 "Our federal network Customers continue their geographic expansion, reaching even towns populated by less than 150,000 people, — explains Enforta's CEO Viktor Ratnikov. — Enforta is keeping pace with its Customers. We selected only those towns where we will be able to assure services quality and operations support standards that our large-town Customers are used to. And that means that we enable companies in small towns to develop at the same rate."