OREANDA-NEWS. On the 18th of October 2006 in the settlement of Roshchino, Pravdinsky District, the first call from a universal servicing payphone was given in Kaliningrad Oblast.

In March 2006 OJSC North-West Telecom became the winner of the competition for the right of providing universal services of telephone communication using payphone s in Kaliningrad Oblast and Arkhangelsk Oblast.

In October 2006, at the first stage of programme implementation, 26 payphone s will be put into operation in Kaliningrad Oblast: in Guseyevsky, Bagrationovsky and Pravdinsky municipal formations and in the city of Kaliningrad.  

All in all, prior to the 10th of April 2007 the branch will install 572 payphones in 559 settlements, including 77 settlements that have no telephone communication at all.