Moscow, Russian Federation — May 18, 2007 — Mobile Telesystems OJSC («MTS» — NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in russia and the CIS, announces that its consolidated subscriber base reached 74.52 million users on April 30, 2007.
During April 2007, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.36 million subscribers
Subscribers (mln) |
Apr 30, 2007 |
Mar 31, 2007 |
Growth Subs |
Growth % |
Apr 30, 2006 |
Growth Subs |
Growth % |
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
74.52 |
74.16 |
0.36 |
0.5% |
61.77 |
12.75 |
20.6% |
Russia |
51.84 |
51.50 |
0.34 |
0.7% |
46.35 |
5.49 |
11.8% |
Moscow and the Moscow region |
11.62 |
11.50 |
0.12 |
1.0% |
10.32 |
1.30 |
12.6% |
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
2.60 |
2.61 |
-0.01 |
-0.6% |
2.51 |
0.09 |
3.4% |
Rest of Russia |
37.62 |
37.39 |
0.23 |
0.6% |
33.52 |
4.10 |
12.2% |
Ukraine |
20.68 |
20.75 |
-0.07 |
-0.3% |
14.60 |
6.08 |
41.6% |
Uzbekistan |
1.80 |
1.70 |
0.10 |
5.5% |
0.72 |
1.08 |
149.4% |
Turkmenistan |
0.21 |
0.20 |
0.01 |
5.1% |
0.11 |
0.10 |
89.9% |
MTS Belarus1 |
3.38 |
3.37 |
0.01 |
0.2% |
2.41 |
0.97 |
40.3% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated. |
|