MTS has launched a digital TV signal throughout Russia

Telecommunications operator MTS announced the launch of digital television broadcasting in 150 Russian cities, which will, in his words, more than 60% increase in the number of channels in the TV packages of MTS in the regions, to provide users with access to HD-content and interactive pay-TV services.

The modernization of MTS equipment updated on 65 TV stations and has established conditional access system (CAS, Conditional Access System) - software and hardware mechanism to control access to digital television programs.

All the "digital" MTS across Russia in the first stage development of commercial operation of television channels available to 118 (base package, and 6 special thematic telepaketov). A full translation of all clients of Home MTS TV services for digital TV is scheduled until 2014, the first phase of the project will provide MTS can be connected to digital TV subscribers in 50 Russian cities, including St. Petersburg, Sochi, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Chita, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanovsk, Vologda, Severodvinsk, Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Smolensk, Volgograd, Taganrog, and many others. In September 2012 MTS plans to expand its geographic presence and digital TV users to increase the number of available channels to 140.