In the first half of 2007, Svyazinvest companies received revenues from high-speed Internet access services by 60% more than in the same period last year, and the growth rates, according to analysts, will not weaken by the end of the year.
The revenues of the seven RTOs from broadband access (BBA) to the Internet in the first half of the year increased by 7.9 billion rubles. against a little less than 5 billion rubles. for the same period of 2006, the revenues of the holding’s subsidiaries increased by 45% to 76% by the same indicator, despite the analysts expected 45%.
From the beginning of July 2006, RTO subscribers using broadband access became almost three times more, and from January to June - by 60%, exceeding 1 million. NWT subscribers were the fastest recruited (increase from the beginning of the year - 78%), Uralsvyazinform "(67%) and Sibirtelecom (65%). Svyazinvest companies service almost every third Russian family that uses broadband Internet.
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There is a significant increase in the number of broadband access users, while the number of dial-up users for many providers is decreasing. Svyazinvest hopes that RTOs will continue to connect subscribers to broadband channels at the same pace, said Oleg Mikhailov, director of the external communications department of the holding. The situation on the broadband access market in many ways resembles the cellular market several years ago, he notes: only 25% of Russians have computers, but they are several times more expensive than cellular handsets.
Judging by the opinion of analysts, in 2007 the dynamics of growth in revenues of RTOs from broadband access will continue. It is expected that this market will still grow annually by no less than 15-20% for a couple more years.
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