January 29, 2008, Moscow: COMSTAR – United TeleSystems (COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST), the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, and SKYLINK, mobile broadband Internet and voice services provider in 31 constituent entities of the Russian Federation*, have signed agreements to join efforts for services and products implementation in Moscow.

Under the agreements, at the first phase of cooperation the companies will promote each other’s services: Moscow sales offices of both companies will offer both SKYLINK and Stream full package products. The second phase implies introduction of converged services, developing of more flexible charging and reward programs for subscribers of COMSTAR-UTS and SKYLINK.

Sergey Nazarov, Marketing Vice President of COMSTAR-UTS, said: "We consider the wishes of our consumers and try to completely meet their growing demands. Joint project of COMSTAR–UTS and SKYLINK provides our customers with all the advantages of broadband unlimited Internet, both fixed and mobile. And even more, our services are more affordable now. In future, we will offer our subscribers a comprehensive converged product."

Albert Safiullin, Deputy Commercial General Director of SKYLINK CJSC, said: "Mobile and fixed Internet complement each other quite well. We regard the joint sales as the first step of a long-term cooperation to offer the joint telecommunication solutions."