July 15, 2008, Moscow: COMSTAR – United Telesystems (LLC COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST), the largest provider of integrated telecommunications services in Russia and CIS announced that CJSC COMSTAR-Direct, the leading provider of broadband Internet access services (trade mark STREAM), a member of COMSTAR-UTS Group, provide its subscribers with possibility to pay for services via Internet using bank cards of international payment systems VISA, MasterCard, JCB, Diners Club. The project was realized in cooperation with CJSC ChronoPay (trade mark ChronoPay, founder – ChronoPay B.V., Netherlands).
   
Now it is possible to pay for all the services provided by COMSTAR-Direct, using personal account of a STREAM subscriber (you can log into your personal account on the web-page www.stream.ru). The payment is made in online mode. Payment commission is not charged to a subscriber. ChronoPay meets the highest security standards as required by the major credit card organizations Visa, MasterCard and American Express (PCI compliancy). Additionally, the system is tested daily for all known vulnerabilities and is certified by HackerSafe.
   
COMSTAR simplifies to the maximum the process of payment for broadband Internet access services in order that our subscribers could replenish their personal accounts in a fast, convenient and secure way. It has been a long time since you had to go to customer service office or bank in order to pay for the service. Nowadays you can do it from at home, - said S. Nazarov, Vice-president for marketing, JSC COMSTAR-UTS. – Thus, we save Moscovites’ time and make relationships between subscribers and operator more interactive».
   
«Today the market of internet-payments via bank cards demonstrate an intensive growth and in accordance with our forecasts it will keep growing in the future owing to telecommunication sector. We believe that diversifying and simplifying ways of payment for telecommunication and Internet access services  will make it possible for operator to increase loyalty of its subscribers», - added D. Shmakov, Vice-president for marketing and commercial activity, CJSC ChronoPay.