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 91.77 million users on February 28, 2009.
During February, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.4 million subscribers with 340 thousand subscribers added in Russia.
|
Subscribers (mln) |
Feb 28, 2009 |
Jan 31, 2009 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Feb 29, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
|
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
91.77 |
91.40 |
0.37 |
0.4% |
83.88 |
7.89 |
9.4% |
|
Russia |
64.83 |
64.49 |
0.34 |
0.5% |
59.07 |
5.76 |
9.8% |
|
Moscow and the
Moscow region |
15.23 |
15.19 |
0.04 |
0.3% |
13.87 |
1.36 |
9.8% |
|
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
3.34 |
3.31 |
0.03 |
0.8% |
2.86 |
0.48 |
16.7% |
|
Rest of Russia |
46.26 |
45.99 |
0.27 |
0.6% |
42.35 |
3.91 |
9.2% |
|
Ukraine |
18.02 |
18.15 |
(0.13) |
(0.7%) |
19.67 |
(1.65) |
(8.4%) |
|
Uzbekistan |
5.80 |
5.73 |
0.07 |
1.2% |
3.34 |
2.46 |
73.7% |
|
Turkmenistan |
1.07 |
1.00 |
0.07 |
6.6% |
0.40 |
0.67 |
166.6% |
|
Armenia |
2.05 |
2.03 |
0.02 |
0.9% |
1.39 |
0.66 |
47.1% |
|
MTS Belarus1 |
4.39 |
4.37 |
0.02 |
0.6% |
3.90 |
0.49 |
12.7% |
1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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