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 80.21 million users on November 30, 2007.
During November 2007, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 1.09 million subscribers.
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Subscribers (mln) |
Nov 30, 2007 |
Oct 31, 2007 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Nov 30, 2006 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
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Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
80.21 |
79.12 |
1.09 |
1.4% |
69.68 |
10.53 |
15.1% |
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Russia |
56.01 |
55.15 |
0.86 |
1.6% |
50.56 |
5.45 |
10.8% |
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Moscow and the
Moscow region |
13.12 |
12.89 |
0.23 |
1.8% |
11.06 |
2.06 |
18.6% |
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St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
2.77 |
2.73 |
0.04 |
1.4% |
2.70 |
0.07 |
2.6% |
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Rest of Russia |
40.13 |
39.53 |
0.60 |
1.5% |
36.80 |
3.33 |
9.0% |
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Ukraine |
19.93 |
19.90 |
0.03 |
0.2% |
17.61 |
2.32 |
13.2% |
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Uzbekistan |
2.59 |
2.41 |
0.18 |
7.3% |
1.35 |
1.24 |
91.5% |
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Turkmenistan |
0.33 |
0.31 |
0.02 |
6.7% |
0.16 |
0.17 |
106.3% |
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Armenia* |
1.346 |
1.352 |
-0.01 |
-0.4% |
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MTS Belarus1 |
3.73 |
3.70 |
0.03 |
0.8% |
3.04 |
0.69 |
22.8% |
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Significant increase in subscriber additions in October can be largely attributed to the adoption in Armenia of the churn policy used by MTS in Russia, whereby customers are defined as churning after six months of inactivity. |
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1 |
MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated. |
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