OREANDA-NEWS. October 13, 2009. The delegation of COMSTAR – United TeleSystems (COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST), the leading operator of integrated telecom services in Russia and the CIS, participated in ITU TELECOM 2009 International exhibition events which took place on October 5-7, 2009 in Geneva.

On 5th October 2009 Sergey Pridantsev, COMSTAR-UTS Group of Companies president, acted as one of Russian delegation at ITU TELECOM 2009 plenary meeting moderators. Telecommunications Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Schegolev, head of Rossvyazcomnadzor Sergey Sitnikov, OJSC Svyazinvest CEO Evgeniy Yurchenko and federal state unitary enterprise Kosmicheskaya Svyaz CEO i.A. Yuri Prokhorov.

During plenary meeting were discussed results achieved by Russian operators at the time of crisis, telecommunication business sector development in the country and international market access prospects, and also tasks on infocommunication branch prospective development and its incentive mechanisms. Single issues of the plenary meeting were major infrastructure projects: Olympics – 2014 in Sochi, GLONASS satellite system, Vladivostok – APEC.

The plenary meeting was held in presence of Russian and foreign journalists.

In ITU TELECOM 2009 International exhibition events also took part JSC Comstar-UTS vice-president for technologies Alexander Kirillov, OJSC MGTS General Director Sergey Nazarov and OJSC MGTS Deputy General Director – Director for technologies Vladimir Lebedev.

ITU TELECOM WORLD is one of the most prestigious exhibitions in the sphere of telecommunications and IT representing high technologies developments and achievements of leading world companies: hardware and software vendors, telecommunication operators, integrators, international research and development institutes.