Moscow, Russian Federation – November 13, 2006 – Mobile Telesystems OJSC (“MTS” - NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announces that its consolidated subscriber base reached 68.53 million users on October 31, 2006.
During October 2006, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.94 million subscribers, of which 0.23 million were added in Russia.
|
Subscribers (mln) |
Oct 31, 2006 |
Sep 30, 2006 |
Growth |
Oct 31, 2005 |
Growth |
|
Subs
|
%
|
Subs
|
%
|
|
Total consolidated subscribers,
end of period |
68.53 |
67.59 |
0.94 |
1.4% |
52.44 |
16.09 |
30.7% |
|
Russia |
50.22 |
49.99 |
0.23 |
0.5% |
40.38 |
9.84 |
24.4% |
|
Moscow and the Moscow
region |
11.05 |
11.01 |
0.04 |
0.4% |
9.91 |
1.14 |
11.5% |
|
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
2.70 |
2.69 |
0.01 |
0.4% |
2.36 |
0.34 |
14.6% |
|
Rest of Russia |
36.46 |
36.29 |
0.17 |
0.5% |
28.11 |
8.35 |
29.7% |
|
Ukraine |
16.92 |
16.36 |
0.56 |
3.4% |
11.49 |
5.43 |
47.3% |
|
Uzbekistan |
1.24 |
1.09 |
0.15 |
13.2% |
0.51 |
0.73 |
142.8% |
|
Turkmenistan |
0.15 |
0.14 |
0.01 |
6.3% |
0.06 |
0.09 |
155.7% |
|
MTS Belarus1 |
2.98 |
2.89 |
0.09 |
3.0% |
1.94 |
1.04 |
53.4% |
1 MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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