Moscow City Telephone Network

The Moscow City Telephone Network (MCTN; Russian: Московская городская телефонная сеть, romanized: Moskovskaja Gorodskaja Telefonnaja Set' (MGTS)) is a publicly held utility providing local telephone service to over 4,000,000 subscribers in the city of Moscow, Russia.

Founded in 1882, the Bell Telephone Company built a manually operated exchange with a capacity of 800 numbers and 26 households signed up.

In 1891 the Swedish-Danish-Russian Joint Stock Company signed a contract to provide service to Moscow for 18 years.

In 2014 the operator will complete the construction of a dagital technology platform based on fiber networks to buildings (FTTx) and will provide all users access to a package of services, including broadband Internet access (broadband), digital TV, and telephony.

[3] In January 2014 it was reported that the Moscow Government plans to revoke MGTS monopoly on public telephones, which the company had since 1994, and to select a new operator that will add completely new device features, such as parking fees payment option.

The exchange of Moscow City Telephone Network in 1890