MTS passes digital milestone

Russian service provider MTS has now launched digital TV services in 150 Russian cities, increasing the number of channels in the TV packages it provides by 60%, the company has announced.

MTS said it would complete the creation of unified offerings across all the regions, including cable TV, mobile TV, video-on-demand and other interactive service, soon.

MTS plans to complete digitisation of its services by 2014. The company currently has about three million pay TV subscribers.