Moscow, Russian Federation – Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” – NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announces that its consolidated subscriber base reached 85.68 million users on April 30, 2008.
During April 2008, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.74 million subscribers.
| Subscribers (mln) |
Apr 30, 2008 |
Mar 31, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Apr 30, 2007 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
| Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
85.68 |
84.94 |
0.74 |
0.9% |
74.52 |
11.16 |
15.0% |
| Russia |
60.45 |
59.90 |
0.55 |
0.9% |
51.84 |
8.61 |
16.6% |
Moscow and the
Moscow region |
13.97 |
13.95 |
0.02 |
0.2% |
11.62 |
2.35 |
20.2% |
| St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
2.91 |
2.88 |
0.03 |
1.0% |
2.60 |
0.31 |
12.0% |
| Rest of Russia |
43.57 |
43.06 |
0.51 |
1.2% |
37.62 |
5.95 |
15.8% |
| Ukraine |
19.46 |
19.61 |
- 0.15 |
- 0.7% |
20.68 |
- 1.22 |
- 5.9% |
| Uzbekistan |
3.84 |
3.56 |
0.28 |
7.9% |
1.80 |
2.04 |
113.1% |
| Turkmenistan |
0.50 |
0.47 |
0.03 |
7.3% |
0.21 |
0.29 |
137.9% |
| Armenia |
1.44 |
1.42 |
0.02 |
1.6% |
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| MTS Belarus |
3.96 |
3.94 |
0.02 |
0.4% |
3.38 |
0.58 |
17.2% |
1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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