Russia’s MTS ended the first quarter with 2,745,000 pay-TV subscribers in its home market.
Although the total was unchanged on three months earlier, it was up from 2,719,000 in the same period in 2015.
The company notes in its latest set of results that year-on-year growth in B2C reflects the success of its GPON project, together with the development of the pay-TV market in Moscow in Q1 2016.
Its share of the B2C broadband market in the Russian capital in the first quarter was 31.3%, compared to 28.5% a year earlier.
Meanwhile, its share of the B2C pay-TV market increased from 19.1% to 26.1% over the same period.