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Thema Rus expands Love Nature in Russia with MTS distribution

Canal+ International Group company Thema Rus has launched Love Nature on Russia’s MTS TV-services.  Love Nature, which as the title suggests presents a variety of nature and wildlife-focused documentary content, will be available as a 4K linear TV channel to MTS subscribers via IPTV and on the KION multimedia platform.  This is the latest expansion […]

MTS launches KION OTT platform

Russian telco Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched the KION OTT streaming platform. The service features thousands of films and hundreds of TV channels in addition to a slate of original programming to launch on KION this year. MTS said that KION aims to bring together world-class licensed content with a steady stream of unique, exclusive […]

Russia’s MTS grows TV base in face of pandemic

Russian service provider MTS has posted solid second-quarter results, with growth in TV numbers contributing to its performance, despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. MTS had 3.144 million fixed line TV customers in Russia at the end of first half, up from 3.065 million in Q1 and from 2.948 million a year ago. The […]

MTS and Channel One Russia team up for advanced TV JV

Russian service provider MTS and state-owned broadcaster Channel One are to create a joint venture to develop personalised TV services, audience behaviour analytic tools and content recommendation systems. The JV will also develop tools to develop targeted and personalised advertising. Channel One will also provide MTS’s media and production unit, MTS Media, with rights to […]

Russian telco MTS divests its Ukrainian telco interests

MTS, Russia’s leading telecommunications operator and digital services provider, has signed a binding agreement with Bakcell-controlled Telco Solutions and Investments to sell its telco operations in Ukraine. In accordance with the agreement, MTS’s wholly-owned subsidiary Allegretto is selling its 100% stake in its Dutch subsidiary Preludium B.V, the sole shareholder of VF Ukraine PrJSC, for […]

MTS Satellite hits 750k subscribers

Russian telco MTS has announced that its MTS Satellite TV service has reached 752,000 subscribers. This growth represents a year-over-year increase of 150%.  MTS primarily operates a fixed line service, and launched satellite TV as an expansion to its core services in 2014. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Leningrad, the Republic of Tatarstan and Stavropol saw the […]

MTS taps Huawei for new TV platform

Russian service provider MTS has teamed up with Chinese technology giant Huawei to deploy a single multimedia platform for TV services. MTS has partnered with Huawei to create what it describes as a unified multimedia platform to develop its TV products further across all distribution channels, including mobile, cable, satellite TV and IPTV. The service […]

MTS adds to TV base

Russian service provider MTS had 1.822 million TV customers at the end of last year, up 32,000 quarter-on-quarter and 67,000 year-on-year. The company had 3.053 million fixed broadband subscribers at the end of 2017, along with 3.206 million fixed phone subscribers. MTS had 78.3 million mobile phone customers, a small year-on-year decline. However, mobile internet […]

Russian pay TV growth slowing, but ARPU pushes revenues higher

The number of subscribers to pay TV in Russia grew by 3.2% last year to 42.7 million, representing a penetration rate of 75%, according to research by TMT Consulting. Growth was driven by the big five Russian operators, which collectively saw their pay TV bases rise by 1.5 million. This offset declines among smaller players, […]

MTS enters eSports world with Gambit acquisition

Russian service provider MTS has entered the rapidly growing eSports market by acquiring leading eSports team group Gambit Esports. MTS has acquired Praliss Enterprises, which manages Gambit Esports. The latter unites four teams of eSports players – with 16 players in total – that compete in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends, Dota 2 and […]

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