April 2, 2008, Moscow: COMSTAR – United TeleSystems (COMSTAR-UTS JSC, LSE: CMST), the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, announces that Comstar Direct CJSC, the premier broadband Internet provider (STREAM brand), a member of COMSTAR-UTS, launches a unified portal for its additional services – STREAM24 (https://www.stream24.ru), and initiates on-line sales of licensed software, music and antivirus.

STREAM24 unites several web sites offering additional services that are very popular among broadband subscribers of COMSTAR Direct. These web sites represent an on-line store of computer games, resource incorporating game servers and news about games, and a filestore. Besides, STREAM24 includes three on-line stores with brand new additional services: software, digital music and Stream.Antivirus.

All the products in these stores are licensed.

A COMSTAR Direct's subscriber only has to register once at STREAM24 to get a unified account and access to all the sites providing additional services that are a part of the portal.

STREAM24 on-line stores use the digital distribution, which means that a buyer only has to download chosen content to his/her PC. The portal has a common cart: users choose different products in various stores, but pay for all purchases at once, not for individual products.

Sergey Nazarov, Marketing Vice President of COMSTAR-UTS JSC, says, "Today, users prefer legal digital content and purchase it from specialized on-line stores. This is fast, convenient and ensures high quality of the product. We offer our users a unique range of additional services and we are going to launch new services at STREAM24. With the unified portal, we hope to encourage loyalty of our customers and attract new subscribers."

In the short run, the portal is expected to include more web sites, e.g. a photo resource that enables placement, editing and printing photos.

New services at STREAM24:

STREAM.Antivirus (https://antivirus.stream24.ru) is a reliable and convenient antivirus designed to satisfy the needs of STREAM users by F-Securem, one of the global leaders in computer security. STREAM.Antivirus enables a comprehensive security against viruses and all other types of malicious programs, hacker attacks, confidential information theft and spam. Besides, it provides a parental control that restricts Internet access for children. The main peculiarity of this software is that it’s easy to use – users do not have to pay for the product at once and care about license extension date. Upon purchasing of STREAM.Antivirus via his/her private cabinet, a user subscribes to the service, and COMSTAR Direct withdraws a certain amount of money from his/her personal account every month.

SOFTWARE24 (https://soft.stream24.ru) is an on-line software store. Any user of STREAM services registered at STREAM24 may purchase and download various programs by different manufacturers to his/her PC. All the software is legal, so buyers are secured from counterfeit and low-quality products. SOFTWARE24 is implemented in co-operation with Softkey, the leading Russian software distributor.

MUSIC24 (https://music.stream24.ru) is a digital music on-line store where one can easily find a detailed data on available tunes and albums, get to know artists’ info and finally purchase and download some music. STREAM24 co-operates with licensed content manufacturers only, so all the products in the music store are legal. MUSIC24 is implemented in co-operation with Soundkey.