OREANDA-NEWS. September 23, 2009.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 96.17 million users on August 31, 2009.

During August, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.52 million subscribers with around 330 thousand subscribers added in Russia.

Subscribers (mln)

Aug 31, 2009

Jul 31, 2009

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Aug 31, 2008

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Total consolidated subscribers, end of period

96.17

95.65

0.52

0.5%

87.26

8.91

10.2%

Russia

68.26

67.93

0.33

0.5%

61.48

6.78

11.0%

  Moscow and the
  Moscow region

14.34

14.85

(0.51)

(3.4%)

14.17

0.17

1.2%

  St. Petersburg and the   Leningrad region

3.73

3.66

0.07

1.8%

3.07

0.66

21.4%

  Rest of Russia

50.19

49.42

0.77

1.6%

44.23

5.96

13.5%

Ukraine

17.77

17.79

(0.02)

(0.1%)

18.60

(0.83)

(4.4%)

Uzbekistan

6.67

6.55

0.12

1.8%

4.83

1.84

38.3%

Turkmenistan

1.41

1.33

0.08

6.3%

0.71

0.70

99.7%

Armenia

2.05

2.04

0.01

0.5%

1.66

0.39

23.9%

MTS Belarus1

4.501

4.504

(0.003)

(0.1%)

4.11

0.39

9.4%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1MTS owns a 49% stake in Mobile TeleSystems LLC, a mobile operator in Belarus, which is not consolidated.