MTS, one of Russia’s leading mobile operators, announced the launch of a cloud-based distribution system for multimedia content — the first such experiment in Russia and CIS countries. The announcement was made last week at Sviaz-Expocomm, a major international event of the telecommunications industry held each year in Moscow.
The system will be tested on MTS subsidiary Omlet.ru, a leading Russian online catalog for video, music, and game content with over 2,000 movies and 4,000 episodes of TV programs.
Omlet.ru will make its multimedia content — entertainment, news, and sports, in particular — accessible from any of a wide range of devices: Internet-connected televisions, personal computers, TV decoders, Over-the-Top devices, and mobile phones and iPads based on iOS and Android. Should a user switch from one device to another, content transmission will resume from the point at which the user previously stopped.
MTS will make this feature available to its subscribers of mobile and broadband Internet as well as of digital TV.
