Russia’s MTS ended 2012 with 2.9 million pay-TV subscribers, while its fixed broadband internet customer total amounted to 2.3 million.
All told, the number of households in its fixed broadband business increased by 3% year-on-year to 11.7 million in Q4 2012.
MTS is part of Sistema, which describes the pay-TV figure as “stable” in its latest set of results.
However, Sistema also operates Sistema Mass Media (SMM), which saw its Stream TV subscriber base increase by 21% in 2012 to 7.5 million, while the share of revenue from advertising on Stream TV as a percentage of total revenue grew by 0.6 percentage points year-on-year to 15.4%.
SMM’s revenues decreased by 19.8% year-on-year to $81.8 million in 2012, while its net loss was reduced from $63.9 million to $11.1 million over the same period.