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 96.17 million users on August 31, 2009.
During August, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.52 million subscribers with around 330 thousand subscribers added in Russia.
|
Subscribers (mln) |
Aug 31, 2009 |
Jul 31, 2009 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Aug 31, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
|
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
96.17 |
95.65 |
0.52 |
0.5% |
87.26 |
8.91 |
10.2% |
|
Russia |
68.26 |
67.93 |
0.33 |
0.5% |
61.48 |
6.78 |
11.0% |
|
Moscow and the
Moscow region |
14.34 |
14.85 |
(0.51) |
(3.4%) |
14.17 |
0.17 |
1.2% |
|
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
3.73 |
3.66 |
0.07 |
1.8% |
3.07 |
0.66 |
21.4% |
|
Rest of Russia |
50.19 |
49.42 |
0.77 |
1.6% |
44.23 |
5.96 |
13.5% |
|
Ukraine |
17.77 |
17.79 |
(0.02) |
(0.1%) |
18.60 |
(0.83) |
(4.4%) |
|
Uzbekistan |
6.67 |
6.55 |
0.12 |
1.8% |
4.83 |
1.84 |
38.3% |
|
Turkmenistan |
1.41 |
1.33 |
0.08 |
6.3% |
0.71 |
0.70 |
99.7% |
|
Armenia |
2.05 |
2.04 |
0.01 |
0.5% |
1.66 |
0.39 |
23.9% |
|
MTS Belarus1 |
4.501 |
4.504 |
(0.003) |
(0.1%) |
4.11 |
0.39 |
9.4% |
1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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