Sistema-backed Comstar UTS has announced that its Comstar Direct division ended Q1 2007 with 397,700 broadband Internet subscribers, of who 100,500 received pay-TV services. While the broadband figure was an impressive 39% higher than in the corresponding period in 2006, take-up of pay-TV was up by a huge 604%. Comstar Direct has added a total of seven new channels to its Stream IPTV service – RUTV, Vesti, Viasat Sport, Bridge TV, Dom Kino, 2×2 and TeleNanny – since the beginning of this year.