OREANDA-NEWS. For nine months of 2006 UTK`s capital expenditures decreased by 62.14% to RUR 949.2 million compared to RUR 2,507.3 million in nine months of 2005.  Fixed assets put into service decreased by 51.03% to RUR 1,469.7 million.

During the nine months of 2006 31,918 telephone lines were put into operation in UTK networks, 23,634 of them - in urban TN and 8,284 - in rural TN.

As a result, UTK`s total installed capacity as of September 30, 2006 stood at  4,046.9 ths lines, including 3,503.2  ths lines in residential sector.

Digitization level of UTK local network rose by  3.2 percentage points over 9m2005 reaching 64.2%, including 68.83% in urban telephone network.