[citation needed] In 2010, MTS announced the acquisition of 62% of the stock of Comstar, the biggest Russian fixed internet and cable TV provider with 7.5 million of passed households.

Until this purchase, MTS was presented at the fixed telephony market through its subsidiary Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS).

[citation needed] In November 2013, the company has launched the "Home Phone MTS" in Ryazan, Oryol, Kirov, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don and Yekaterinburg.

[8] During 2012–2013, MTS deployed FTTB network in nearly twenty new cities of the Far East, Siberia, Central, Volga and Ural federal districts.

In November 2013, MTS began offering their Russian customers LTE roaming service, after such agreement were signed first with South Korean operator SK Telecom, and then with Saudi Arabia and Great Britain.

[10] Along with the construction of the fixed network, the company launched the DVB-C digital television standard in Ulan-Ude, Blagoveshchensk, Ussuriisk and Nakhodka.

[11] In March 2019, MTS launched an interactive media platform for cyber athletes and gamers called WASD.TV, and a mechanism for selecting players from the Gambit league to professional e-sports teams.

On September 17, 2019, it was revealed that a storage device containing 1.7 terabytes of information related to MTS was exposed to the public internet in a data leak.

[18] In May 2006, MTS changed their logo as a part of rebranding campaign performed by their parent company, AFK Sistema PAO.

The left one, common in form (but not colour) to all AFK Sistema PAO's telecom subsidiaries, contains a white egg which symbolises simplicity and genius, while the right square bears the name of the company: МТС (MTS).

[22] MTS Turkmenistan in September 2017 faced termination of the permit to use the dedicated radio frequency spectrum and some other required resources.

[23] Gulnora Karimova gained control of the firm in the late 1990s or early 2000s,[24] and by 2005 it was 74% owned by Russia's MTS, which paid $121 million for the stake.

Officials argued that MTS-Uzbekistan has been responsible for a series of technical violations, and its operations have been suspended beginning on the evening of July 17.

[29] In August 2012, the government of Uzbekistan revoked the company's operating license and arrested several of its top management, citing repeated regulatory violations.

MTS said in an e-mailed statement that the actions of the Uzbek authorities may be interpreted as “baseless attacks on the business of the Russian investor.”[32] However, in 2019, The United States Department of Justice charged the firm for bribery to secure contracts in Uzbekistan.