Ryazan branch of CenterTelecom is the leading operator of fixed line telecommunications services in Ryazan region. It ofers a full range of telecommunications services including telephone communications, Internet access, data transmission, and radio broadcasting. The branch is gradually developing and expanding its telecommunications network in the region's cities and rural areas, increasing transmission capacity of its telecommunications channels, building digital infrastructure and integrating local and intra-zone networks into Russia's unified digital network.
Currently Ryazan branch has:
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Over 282,000 numbers of installed capacity in telephone network
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More than 264,000 subscribers of fixed line telecommunications services
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Over 39,000 wireline broadcasting users
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420 automatic telephone exchanges including 60 digital exchanges
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More than 37,000 subscribers of ADSL broadband Internet access services
Ryazan branch is one of CenterTelecom's 15 divisions operating in Russia's Central Federal District. Unified corporate policies, implementation of the latest technologies and progressive managerial methods allow the company to retain its leading positions in Russia's telecommunications market. As a successful operator in the market, CenterTelecom can take pride in its reputation which inspires its customers, partners and society with respect for the company. In December 2008 the branch was called the best telecommunications company of the year in the Ryazan region.
History of Ryazan region telecommunications began on December, 4 1859 when the first telegram was sent from Ryazan to Moscow. In 1896 Evgeny Gvozdev, a state official from Ryazan region, sent to Head of Russia's Main Directorate for Post and Telegraph Service a petition on possibility of construction of a telephone network in Ryazan and 12 regional cities. Petition and budget for construction were approved quickly. The first test of telephone communications in the region was conducted in February 1896. On June, 26 1896 the first 40 telephone lines were put into operation in Ryazan city. The first public telephone was put into operation in Ryazan region in 1898. In 1914 capacity of the new telephone exchange in Ryazan city was used in full. The same year a long distance telephone connection with Moscow was launched. The regional archives contain data on the number of telephone calls made in Ryazan in the beginning of the twentieth century. For instance, in January 1921 Ryazan inhabitants made 229 calls to Moscow and only two calls to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). Telephone penetration was developing quite slowly at that time: in 1896 there were 40 telephone subscribers in Ryazan city, and thirty years later their number reached only 535 people.
In 1926 three radio loudspeakers were installed in Ryazan. The first Ryazan radio broadcasting center with 5 Watt capacity was put into operation on October, 15 1927. Maria Palagina was the first announcer.
In January 1959 the new long distance telephone exchange was put into operation in Ryazan. The city received ten outgoing and incoming half-automatic channels for communications with Moscow. 30 international switchboards for 120 half-automatic channels and six channels for connection through telephone operators plus B-3 and B-12 baseband systems were installed in a switchroom. It allowed half-automatic telephone communications with Moscow, Kasimov, Ryazhsk, Sasovo and other towns. Subsequently, in the sixties and seventies, telephone penetration grew at an exponential rate. In the seventies there were already over 22,000 subscribers in Ryazan.
Museum of Telecommunications Development in the Ryazan region was opened on May 6, 1988.
Ryazan branch of CenterTelecom strives to provide high quality services to its customers, guarantee reliability and confidentiality of telecommunications, and to contribute to its corporate customers' commercial success.