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 95.65 million users on July 31, 2009.
During July, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.62 million subscribers with over 510 thousand subscribers added in Russia.
|
Subscribers (mln) |
Jule 31, 2009 |
June 30, 2009 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Jule 31, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
|
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
95.65 |
95.03 |
0.62 |
0.7% |
87.26 |
8.39 |
9.6% |
|
Russia |
67.93 |
67.42 |
0.51 |
0.8% |
61.86 |
6.07 |
9.8% |
|
Moscow and the
Moscow region |
14.85 |
15.36 |
(0.51) |
(3.3%) |
14.14 |
0.71 |
5.1% |
|
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
3.66 |
3.58 |
0.08 |
2.3% |
3.01 |
0.65 |
21.7% |
|
Rest of Russia |
49.42 |
48.49 |
0.93 |
1.9% |
44.71 |
4.71 |
10.5% |
|
Ukraine |
17.79 |
17.78 |
0.01 |
0.1% |
18.60 |
(0.81) |
(4.3%) |
|
Uzbekistan |
6.55 |
6.53 |
0.02 |
0.4% |
4.61 |
1.94 |
42.2% |
|
Turkmenistan |
1.33 |
1.25 |
0.08 |
5.9% |
0.64 |
0.69 |
105.9% |
|
Armenia |
2.04 |
2.05 |
(0.01) |
(0.1%) |
1.56 |
0.48 |
31.2% |
|
MTS Belarus1 |
4.50 |
4.48 |
0.02 |
0.5% |
4.07 |
0.43 |
10.7% |
1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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