IPTV Taking Off in Russia

Sistema's Comstar Direct ended Q1 2007 with 397,700 broadband Internet subscribers and 100,500 IPTV subscribers. While the broadband figure was 39% higher than the Q1 2006, the IPTV service increased 604%.

Comstar Direct added seven new channels to its Stream IPTV service – RUTV, Vesti, Viasat Sport, Bridge TV, Dom Kino, 2×2 and TeleNanny – since the beginning of 2007.

Sistema in Russia is now one of a small but growing set of service providers with more than 100 thousand IPTV subscribers. It is now among the leading IPTV service providers.