MTS ended the first quarter with 2,934,000 TV customers in its home market, Russia.
This, according to the company’s latest set of results was up from the 1,875,000 figure posted a year earlier.
Meanwhile, the MGTS (B2C and B2B) and GPON customer total at the end of Q1 was 1,979,000, up from 1,875,000 a year earlier.
In its results, the company notes that according to internal estimates its broadband market share in Moscow grew to 39% in Q1. At the same time, its pay-TV market share grew by 43.6%.
MTS group as a whole had revenues of R118 billion (€1.64 billion) in Q1 or 9.4% more than a year earlier.
Its OIBDA was R55.3 billion (+6%) and net profit R17.6 billion (+14.1%).