MTS Continues With Teleste to Expand Their Nationwide Digital TV Infrastructure

MTS Continues With Teleste to Expand Their Nationwide Digital TV Infrastructure PR Newswire TURKU, Finland, September 6, 2012 TURKU, Finland, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - The largest Russian telecom operator strengthens it's digital TV service delivery with Teleste Teleste, a leading technology and engineering service provider of broadband video and service platforms, and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS"), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announced new supplemental deployments of Teleste Luminato video headend platform and Teleste Broadcast Manager service management system to MTS nationwide digital TV headend network. Development of fixed broadband network and digital services is one of the core areas MTS seeks to concentrate. The company has a goal to convert all its' networks in digital format during 2012-2013 to enable operator's subscribers in all regions of Russia to use advanced packages of TV channels, additional services and high definition content. In order to meet the objective, MTS selected Teleste as a supplier of digital video headend equipment last year and now, few months later, tens of headends are installed and serving subscribers with high quality video content. Due to reliable operation and easy and fast commissioning of the newly installed headends, MTS is already now able and ready to move forward with of the digitalisation program, and expand to new cities which will be also equipped with Teleste headend platforms.