OREANDA-NEWS. On 14th November 2006 the Federal Rates Service of the Russian Federation (FST RF)   approved new rates for local telephone communication services and intra-areal (intra-regional) telephone communication services for all branches of OJSC North-West Telecom in the territory of the Arkhangelsk , Vologda , Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov and Leningrad Oblasts, the Republic s of Karelia and Komi and the city of St. Petersburg.
  
The new rates will come into effect starting from 1st February 2007.

In accordance with the above standard and legal document s, FST RF has approved obligatory rate plans for OJSC N.W.Telecom as limit plans with the right of the operator to fix a rate independently up to the limit value s, as well as eight extra rate plans (with a reduction of the price depending on the time of the day or night, days of week and consumption volumes), which OJSC N.W.Telecom developed taking into account the needs of various groups of subscribers and submitted for consideration by the respective regulatory authority.