The destination of the company was to fulfill step-by-step transition of the payphone network in
St-Petersburg to more advanced level that would correspond to world’s standards.
Now in St-Petersburg there are about 1500 cardphones of the company "St-Petersburg Taxophones".
They are constantly in use by more than 500 000 inhabitants. About 75% of all local calls are made
by payphones that belong to the company "St-Petersburg Taxophones".
Until 1995 ÀÎ "St-Petersburg Taxophones" put on the market cards of only 4 capacity types:
100, 400, 1000 è 3000 units. Later the company made a wider variety of cards available by introducing the cards
of capacity 50 units and in the end of 1996 25 and 200 units. From October 1 1996 there has been introduced cards
of 1000 units with expiry date - the end of 1999. By now company put on the market more than 100 payphone cards
of different design that are made themselves popular with collectors in Russia and other countries.
In August 1996 "St-Petersburg Taxophones" together with the company
"Delta Telecom"
carried out a project "Radio payphone" by installing the payphones in the trains "Aurora" and
"Krasnay Strela" which destinations are "St-Petersburg – Moscow" and
"Moscow –St-Petersburg". For the first time in Russia the passengers got the opportunity to make calls
to any city in the world directly from the train. The company also installed the payphones in hospitals, institutes, schools,
and offices and provided with telephone communication many districts of Leningrad region.
All these activities are part of a big address program of providing telephone communications service to the consumer.
The company’s purpose is to use the modern ways for working out strategy and tactic in it’s developing. Investigating
segments and market potentials of payphones communications, "SPT" also successfully plans it’s work regarding
advertisement campaigns and developing new projects and predicts results with a high extent of reliability.
For more information please contact SPT Office Department
74-A, Engels Pr., St.Petersburg, Russia.
Tel.: +7(812)2932197
Fax: +7(812)5540708
