Telecompaper writes…The Russian fixed-line communications market is worth USD 13 billion in 2006, according to a preliminary report from iKS-Consulting. The fixed-line market posted growth of 13 percent, compared to a communications industry average of 22 percent. The fixed-line market is dominated by local communications accounting for 35 percent of revenue, followed by trunk communications with 25 percent, connection and dropping of traffic with 22 percent, internet access for 9 percent, data transfer for 4 percent, and other segments for 5 percent.Broadband internet service development was a major trend for 2006. The leading dedicated consumer internet access operators are MTU-Intel (Stream) with 394,000 subscribers; Komkor-TV (Akado) with 120,000; VolgaTelecom with 110,000; Korbina Telecom with 110,000; Tsentrtelecom (Domolink) with 104,000; Uralsvyazinform (Utel) with 99,000; Northwest Telecom (@vangard) with 90,000; Central Telegraph Office (Qwerty) with 75,000; Dalsvyaz (Disly) with 74,000; and UTK (Disel) with 68,000 subscribers.

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