“COMSTAR - United TeleSystems” JSC (“Comstar UTS”) (LSE: CMST),  the leading combined telecommunications operator in Russia and CIS, today announced that it has been awarded 10 licenses to provide data transmission in the  Krasnoyarsk,  Krasnodar and Khabarovsk territories,  and  the  Volgograd, Irkutsk, Leningrad, Tver, Saratov and Ulyanovsk regions.

Franke, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comstar UTS, commented: “We have received  18 licenses for  data  transmission  and 20 licenses  for  IP  Voice Data transmission in the first four months of this year, which cover almost 40 key regions in Russia.  We are focused on expanding our license coverage in all key regions and territories of the Russian Federation, taking into consideration our existing operations. The licenses give us the opportunity to provide a broad range of telecommunications solutions in Comstar’s priority regions”.