The Sistema backed telco Comstar UTS has been awarded 10 licences to provide data transmission services in several Russian regions and territories including Volgograd, Irkutsk, Tver, Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar. All told, it has now received 18 data transmission and 20 IP voice data transmission licences for around the country since the beginning of the year. The licences should significantly help Comstar UTS expand its activities, which have until now been focused mostly – though by no means entirely – on the capital, Moscow.
