OREANDA-NEWS. November 13, 2010. OJSC North-West Telecom congratulated its one millionth subscriber for Internet broadband access service s. It was Natalya Gavrilovna Mikhaylova who entered into a contract for the provision of a package of Triple Play service s (Internet plus SIP telephony plusIP TV) using the PON technology in St. Petersburg .

A celebration in honour of the one millionth subscriber for Internet broadband access service s took place at the ceremony of opening the new Client Service Centre of the Flagman category at 22, ul. Bolshaya Morskaya, St. Petersburg.

Congratulating Natalya Gavrilovna, Oleg Viktorovich Popov, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Commercial Director of OJSC N.W.Telecom handed in a valuable gift, an MSI notebook, to her and expressed confidence that the up-to-date personal computer will help her always stay in touch, be at the centre of things and really enjoy the use of modern telecommunication facilities .

“The quality of our service s and the active marketing policy allows OJSC N.W.Telecom to retain stably the leading position s in the Internet access market and we occupy about 50% of the market in the Northwestern Federal District,” O. V. Popov noted. “Crossing the one millionth mark in broadband access connections is a significant landmark for OJSC N.W.Telecom. I would call it the event of the year 2010 . Our company is the third of the Svyazinvest Group’s companies (after OJSC Volgatelecom and Centertelecom) that has achieved this mark.”

OJSC North-West Telecom has been providing the service of Internet broadband access using the ADSL technology* to private clients under the Avangard trademark since the year 2006 ( см. пресс-релиз от 13.02.2006 ). The Internet access services using the PON technology** under the Mega Avangard trademark have been provided since 2008 in St. Petersburg ( см. пресс-релиз от 06.12.2008 г. ), and since 2009 in Kaliningrad ( см. пресс-релиз от 13.11.2009 г .).

At the moment, 300,000 broadband access subscribers out of the one million live in St. Petersburg , about 70,000 having been connected using the PON technology and about 30,000 us ing the Avangard TV service .

More information on the Avangard and Mega Avangard services, package offers, actions and extra service s can be obtained at the product web sites www.avangard-dsl.ru and http://www.avangard-dsl.ru/ru/mega , at any customer service centre of OJSC N.W.Telecom or by calling the free hotline telephone number 8-118-00 (a call for the subscribers of OJSC N.W.Telecom is free of charge).