Moscow City Telephone Network has appointed German Yurtaev, until recently the head of broadband sales at OJSC Vimpelcom its new sales director. MGTS announced that Yurtaev will be responsible for promoting and selling services based on Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology, which MGTS is currently working to introduce. Yurtaev joined the telecommunications industry in June 2010 when Yurtaev was appointed broadband sales director at Vimpelcom (where he worked until July 2012). Before that Yurtaev worked in the food industry. He was fruit unit director at Optifood (Moscow) from November 2008 to March 2010 and head of the commercial division at Woodway from June to December 2008. Before that he had several management posts in food industry companies - CJSC Region Khleb, Moskovsky agriculture plant and LLC Mars.