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 97.81 million users on December 31, 2009.
|
Subscribers (mln) |
Dec 31, 2009 |
Nov 30, 2009 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Dec 31, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
|
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
97.81 |
97.11 |
0.70 |
0.7% |
91.33 |
6.48 |
7.1% |
|
Russia |
69.34 |
68.78 |
0.56 |
0.8% |
64.63 |
4.71 |
7.3% |
|
Moscow and the
Moscow region |
13.59 |
13.57 |
0.02 |
0.1% |
14.91 |
(1.32) |
(8.9%) |
|
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
3.72 |
3.69 |
0.03 |
0.9% |
3.25 |
0.47 |
14.4% |
|
Rest of Russia |
52.03 |
51.52 |
0.51 |
1.0% |
46.46 |
5.57 |
12.0% |
|
Ukraine |
17.56 |
17.60 |
(0.04) |
(0.23%) |
18.12 |
(0.55) |
(3.0%) |
|
Uzbekistan |
7.07 |
7.00 |
0.07 |
1.0% |
5.65 |
1.43 |
25.3% |
|
Turkmenistan |
1.76 |
1.67 |
0.09 |
5.4% |
0.93 |
0.83 |
89.5% |
|
Armenia |
2.07 |
2.05 |
0.03 |
1.3% |
2.02 |
0.06 |
2.8% |
|
MTS Belarus1 |
4.56 |
4.54 |
0.03 |
0.6% |
4.32 |
0.24 |
5.6% |
1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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