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 96.86 million users on September 30, 2009.
During September, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.69 million subscribers with over 440 thousand subscribers added in Russia.
|
Subscribers (mln) |
Sep 30, 2009 |
Aug 31, 2009 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
Sep 30, 2008 |
Growth
Subs |
Growth
% |
|
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period |
96.86 |
96.17 |
0.69 |
0.7% |
87.57 |
9.29 |
10.6%
|
|
Russia |
68.70 |
68.26 |
0.44 |
0.7% |
61.88 |
6.82 |
11.0% |
|
Moscow and the
Moscow region |
14.08 |
14.34 |
(0.26) |
(1.8%) |
14.31 |
(0.23) |
(1.6%) |
|
St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region |
3.68 |
3.73 |
(0.05) |
(1.2%) |
3.10 |
0.58 |
18.9% |
|
Rest of Russia |
50.94 |
50.19 |
0.75 |
1.5% |
44.47 |
6.47 |
14.5% |
|
Ukraine |
17.78 |
17.77 |
0.01 |
0.5% |
18.09 |
(0.31) |
(1.7%) |
|
Uzbekistan |
6.79 |
6.67 |
0.12 |
1.8% |
5.06 |
1.73 |
34.2% |
|
Turkmenistan |
1.50 |
1.41 |
0.09 |
6.5% |
0.76 |
0.74 |
97.2% |
|
Armenia |
2.08 |
2.05 |
0.03 |
1.2% |
1.78 |
0.30 |
16.6% |
|
MTS Belarus1 |
4.52 |
4.50 |
0.02 |
0.5% |
4.16 |
0.36 |
8.6% |
1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.
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