EX-99.1 2 pressrelease080806jul06subs.htm PRESS RELEASE - JULY SUBSCRIBERS Converted by EDGARwiz

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For Immediate Release


Contact:

Tate Fite

Chief Financial Officer

7.495.737.5177

tate.fite@moscowcablecom.com

Or:

Barbara Cano

Breakstone Group International

646.452.2334

bcano@breakstone-group.com


Moscow CableCom Corp. Announces Subscriber Growth Numbers for

July 2006


New York, NY – August 8, 2006 – Moscow CableCom Corp. (NASDAQ: MOCC) today announced the growth of its homes passed network and growth in the number of active subscribers for its broadband services in Moscow as of July 31, 2006:



 

July 31, 2006

June 30,

2006

Change

(1 month)

Percent Change

 

December 31, 2005

YTD Change

(7 months)

Percent Change

Homes passed

581,346

531,274

50,072

9.4%

 

325,954

255,392

78.4%

         

Terrestrial Broadcasting subscribers

% Saturation

119,475


20.6%

112,840


21.2%

6,635

5.9%

 


85,994


26.4%

33,481

38.9%

Pay TV subscribers

% Saturation

33,882

5.8%

30,450

5.7%

3,432

11.3%

 


15,618

4.8%

18,264

116.9%

Internet subscribers

% Saturation

56,751

10.6%

56,264

10.6%

487

0.9%

 


34,600

10.6%

22,151

64.0%


Mikhail Smirnov, Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We are very proud to announce another month of record growth for our business.  The continued rapid expansion of our homes passed network now gives us access to approximately 17% of the households in Moscow; two and one-half times the number of homes we had access to just one year ago.  We also continue to demonstrate our ability to sell our services effectively and to extend our customer reach in both old and new areas where we have a presence.  Despite the seasonally slow summer period, AKADO had record July sales for all three key product lines, with 7,280, 5,520 and 5,770 new subscribers for our Terrestrial Package, Digital Pay TV and Broadband Internet, respectively.  These strong sales helped us balance the temporary seasonal outflow of existing customers that is standard in the summer months.  This July, we experienced a net growth of active Internet service subscribers, as compared to a net loss of more than 1,100 subscribers in July 2005.




We are experiencing a strong market response to the continuing improvements in our Digital Pay TV product, as demonstrated by the level of new sales and net active customer growth.  In addition, more than 1,000 of our subscribers signed up for the enhanced NTV+ Digital Pay TV programming offering in July, which is double the amount of previous months’ results.  Our goal is to continue this trend by increasing the value we deliver to our customers and by further expanding our network.”




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