Sistema-backed Comstar UTS has announced that its Comstar Direct broadband Internet access service, which operates under the brand name Stream, has reached the 400,000-subscriber mark in the Russian capital, Moscow. The figure represents an increase of 11% on the end-2006 total, when the number of subscribers to the Stream TV (IPTV) and broadband Internet double-play package stood at 83,328. All told, the company ended 2006 with 3,644,532 fixed line subscribers nationally, along with 509,146 receiving its alternative services in Moscow and 94,589 in other parts of the country.
