Moscow City Telephone Network has upgraded regular street payphones to the level of intelligent web-payphones.
Starting December 9, three thousand card- and coin/card-operated payphones located in the most animated places of the city will be able to send sms messages and e-mail.
"A year of web-payphones operation demonstrated that the ability to send sms is one of the most claimed features of the new generation phones. So far we have ten of them at the network, so we decided to increase this number through the use of usual payphones," - said the head of MGTS payphone department Arkady Semenov.
All sms- and e-mail-enabled payphones will display a special sticker with operating instructions (see reference - in Russian).
The new services are priced 2 rate units (ranging between RUR 3.80 and RUR 6.00 depending on the value of the telephone card).
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PJSC Moscow City Telephone Network is one of the biggest not only in Russia, but among the local wire telecommunications companies in Europe too. The Company's continual priority task is to provide quality telephone communication accessible to the millions of the Russia's capital-city inhabitants. The MGTS personnel of 20 000 persons supply services to about 4.2 million subscribers. The telephone density in Moscow conforms to the European standards - over 50 MGTS telephones per 100 metropolitan residents. There are about 600 MGTS telephone exchanges in operation, and their number increases year by. There are presently 18 000 pay stations available at the Company's public payphone network. To date, the MGTS share amounts to 80% in the Moscow fixed telecommunications market. The dynamic development of the Company is noted for its stable economic situation, prescheduled on-going income growth rate, and for the amount of provided services on the upgrade. The Central Office of PJSC MGTS is located in Moscow at 12, bdg. 3, Petrovskiy Boulevard, Moscow, Russia. The Company's Internet address is www.mgts.ru.
For further details, please approach the Department of Information and Public Relations - PJSC MGTS.
Tel: +7 (095) 950 0623, fax: +7 (095) 950 0622,
E-mail: pressa@mgts.ru
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