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 91.40 million users on January 31, 2009.
During January, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.07 million subscribers with 280 thousand subscribers added in Moscow. In Turkmenistan, the Company reached a milestone with one million subscribers.
|
Subscribers (mln) |
Jan 31, 2009 |
Dec 31, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Jan 31, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
|
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
91.40 |
91.33 |
0.07 |
0.1% |
82.95 |
8.45 |
10.2% |
|
Russia |
64.49 |
64.63 |
(0.14) |
(0.2%) |
58.26 |
6.23 |
10.7% |
|
Moscow and the
Moscow region |
15.19 |
14.91 |
0.28 |
1.9% |
13.65 |
1.54 |
11.3% |
|
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
3.31 |
3.25 |
0.06 |
1.8% |
2.85 |
0.46 |
16.3% |
|
Rest of Russia |
45.99 |
46.46 |
(0.47) |
(1.0%) |
41.76 |
4.23 |
10.1% |
|
Ukraine |
18.15 |
18.12 |
0.03 |
0.2% |
19.92 |
(1.77) |
(8.9%) |
|
Uzbekistan |
5.73 |
5.65 |
0.08 |
1.6% |
3.00 |
2.73 |
91.2% |
|
Turkmenistan |
1.00 |
0.93 |
0.07 |
7.9% |
0.38 |
0.62 |
163.3% |
|
Armenia |
2.03 |
2.02 |
0.01 |
0.6% |
1.39 |
0.64 |
45.9% |
|
MTS Belarus1 |
4.37 |
4.32 |
0.05 |
1.1% |
3.84 |
0.53 |
13.7% |
1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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