OREANDA-NEWS. In the first quarter of 2007 capex of OJSC “UTK” increased by 110,2% over 1Q2006 to RUR 245.9 million. Fixed assets put into service increased by 153,7% to RUR 391,96 million.

In the first quarter of 2007, 14.178 thousand telephone lines were put into operation in UTK networks including 7,152 thousand lines to replace analog equipment.

As a result, total installed capacity of UTK’s local network stood at 4,349.113 thousand lines as of April 1, 2007.

Digitization rate of UTK local network rose 3,06 percentage points over 1Q2006 and totaled 65,51%, of which the digitization rate in urban telephone network (TN) was 70,14%, in rural TN - 50,59%.