Growth of Rostelecom broadband subscribers for the first time exceeded the total growth of competitors
According to Telecom Daily , in April-June 2015 the number of fixed broadband subscribers in Russia increased by 150,000 to 29 million households. The number of subscribers of Rostelecom increased by 80 thousand - up to 10.59 million. The operator provided for the first time more than half (53%) of the growth in the broadband subscriber base. Last quarter, Rostelecom’s share was only 40%.
According to the representative of the company Valery Kostarev, there is nothing surprising in the fact that Rostelecom, as the largest broadband operator in the country, connects new subscribers most of all. In the first quarter of 2015, 26 million households were covered by optical networks and this penetration is now being converted into subscriber growth, he said. Such operator activity is associated with a ten-year state program to eliminate digital inequality, Vedomosti reports.
Unlike competitors, which expand the base only due to geography, Rostelecom tries to reconnect subscribers of other operators to their fiber optic GPON networks.
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The subscriber base of the country will be able to grow further due to the greater integration of the Internet with television and other additional content sources for broadband subscribers, said VaypelCom representative Anna Aybasheva.
MTS was also able to increase the base in all cities in which there are already operator subscribers. The number of MTS subscribers reached 2.49 million in the second quarter of 2015, and the quarter-to-quarter growth reached 20 thousand. In the second quarter of 2015, the broadband Internet access market grew mainly due to small and medium-sized settlements in the south of Russia, the Urals and Siberia: in some regions, the growth rate in percent year-on-year was double-digit, notes MTS representative Dmitry Solodovnikov.
TTK is inferior to MTS, but it still manages to maintain the growth of the subscriber base. According to the company, its growth in the second quarter was 11 thousand - mainly due to residents of small cities in the eastern part of the country. According to Telecom Daily, the number of broadband access subscribers of TTK has increased by only 7 thousand.
According to the representative of the company Valery Kostarev, there is nothing surprising in the fact that Rostelecom, as the largest broadband operator in the country, connects new subscribers most of all. In the first quarter of 2015, 26 million households were covered by optical networks and this penetration is now being converted into subscriber growth, he said. Such operator activity is associated with a ten-year state program to eliminate digital inequality, Vedomosti reports.
Unlike competitors, which expand the base only due to geography, Rostelecom tries to reconnect subscribers of other operators to their fiber optic GPON networks.
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The subscriber base of the country will be able to grow further due to the greater integration of the Internet with television and other additional content sources for broadband subscribers, said VaypelCom representative Anna Aybasheva.
MTS was also able to increase the base in all cities in which there are already operator subscribers. The number of MTS subscribers reached 2.49 million in the second quarter of 2015, and the quarter-to-quarter growth reached 20 thousand. In the second quarter of 2015, the broadband Internet access market grew mainly due to small and medium-sized settlements in the south of Russia, the Urals and Siberia: in some regions, the growth rate in percent year-on-year was double-digit, notes MTS representative Dmitry Solodovnikov.
TTK is inferior to MTS, but it still manages to maintain the growth of the subscriber base. According to the company, its growth in the second quarter was 11 thousand - mainly due to residents of small cities in the eastern part of the country. According to Telecom Daily, the number of broadband access subscribers of TTK has increased by only 7 thousand.
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