OREANDA-NEWS. On 29 February 2008 was announced, that Sergey Pridantsev, President and Chief Executive Officer of JSC Comstar -UTS and Alexander Gorbunov, vice-president for strategy and development of JSC Comstar -UTS attended the annual conference in the sphere of telecommunications Telecoms World Russia & CIS. The conference was held from the 25th till 27th February, 2008 in Baltschug Kempinski hotel, Moscow.

Telecoms World Russia & CIS – one of the most significant and prestigious events in respect of international forums regularly organized, on the initiative of the largest European telecommunications magazine Total Telecom, in the various parts of the world.

Opening the business programme of the second day of the conference – session devoted to broadband Internet access (BBA), S.V. Pridantsev analyzed the principal development tendencies and future growth possibilities of this telecommunication market segment. President of JSC COMSTAR-UTS noticed that BBA is the obvious driver on the modern telecommunications market and contains wonderful possibilities due to active expansion of telecoms operators to the regional markets and also due to implementation of new technologies, inclusive of the wireless technologies. He commented: "COMSTAR-UTS has all the opportunities for realization of the most ambitious plans".

The conference, where the most actual issues in respect of telecommunication sector development in Russia and CIS were discussed, was attended by the executives of the leading Russian and foreign companies, operators of fixed and mobile telecoms networks, participants of the wholesale telecoms market, equipment manufacturers and technological solutions suppliers (Rostelecom, MTS, Sky Link, Vimpelkom, Colden Telecom, TransTeleCom, Megafon, SMARTS, Synterra, Gars Telecom, CenterTelecom, Euroset, Orange Business Services, TeliaSonera International Carrier, АМТ, Nortel, Huawei and others), executives of the industry associations and representatives of investment society.