OREANDA-NEWS. OAO Svyazinvest has held a Board of Directors meeting. The Board of Directors passed the resolutions to take note of the information on OAO CenterTelecom key performance indicators and to take note of Svyazinvest Group of companies’ FY2006 financial and economic results.

According to preliminary estimates, FY2006 sales across the companies of Svyazinvest Group (excluding OAO MGTS, OAO KGTS, and OAO Giprosvyaz) stood at Rub 213.2 billion (a 10% surge year-on-year), EBITDA amounted to Rub 59.8 billion (up 8.5% against the last year indicator), the number of lines per employee reached 123 (a 20% spike on the year earlier period).

Also, the Board heard OAO COMSTAR-United TeleSystems’ request to call an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting to re-elect OAO Svyazinvest Board of Directors, in view of changes in the composition of Company’s shareholders, was also voiced at the meeting. A decision was adopted to initiate procedures associated with the preparation and conducting of an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting.