On 28th March 2007  OJSC North-West Telecom held a press conference dedicated to The results of Introducing a New Tariffing System for Local Telephone Connections in the North-West of Russia.

The press conference was held in the videoconferencing mode with all branches of OJSC N.W.Telecom. About 100 journalists of the leading mass media of the Northwestern Federal District attended it.  

OJSC North-West Telecom was represented in the central studio of St. Petersburg by:

• Oleg Popov, Deputy General Manager – Sales Manager,
• Oleg Semanov, Deputy General Manager – Technical Manager,
• Ella Tomilina, Deputy General Manager in Charge of Corporate Relations,
• Marina Sukhikh, Director of the Corporate Communications Department,
• ,Irina Anisimova, Head of the Servicing Methodology Department,
• Alexey Zagatsky, Chief Specialist of the Communication Networks Operation Department,
• Andrey Zakrevsky, Sales Manager of the St. Petersburg branch of OJSC N.W.Telecom.

Sales managers of the branches and heads of the public relations services took part in the video conference from OJSC N.W.Telecom in the studios of the branches.

In the course of the press conference the managers of OJSC N.W.Telecom spoke about the key results of the large-scale tarififng campaign – the technical, organizational and informational arrangements that had been made by the region's major operator of fixed telecommunications in the framework of preparation for the introduction of the new billing system and during the first selection of the rates plans for local communications by the subscribers.  

Representatives of OJSC N.W.Telecom have answered journalists' questions.

Deputy General Manager Ella Tomilina noted in her speech the social significance of the changes that were taking place in the telecommunication industry and thanked representatives of mass media for active cooperation, understanding and objective coverage of the changes in the local telephone connections billing system. She said that over 700 reports on the subject had been published in newspapers and magazines of the North-West, in regional resources of the Internet and broadcast on TV in the course of the information campaign in the period from September 2006 till March 2007.