OREANDA-NEWS. January 28, 2010. Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” – NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announces that its consolidated subscriber base reached 97.81 million users on December 31, 2009.

Subscribers (mln)

Dec 31, 2009

Nov 30, 2009

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Dec 31, 2008

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Total consolidated subscribers, end of period

97.81

97.11

0.70

0.7%

91.33

6.48

7.1%

Russia

69.34

68.78

0.56

0.8%

64.63

4.71

7.3%

  Moscow and the
  Moscow region

13.59

13.57

0.02

0.1%

14.91

(1.32)

(8.9%)

  St. Petersburg and the   Leningrad region

3.72

3.69

0.03

0.9%

3.25

0.47

14.4%

  Rest of Russia

52.03

51.52

0.51

1.0%

46.46

5.57

12.0%

Ukraine

17.56

17.60

(0.04)

(0.23%)

18.12

(0.55)

(3.0%)

Uzbekistan

7.07

7.00

0.07

1.0%

5.65

1.43

25.3%

Turkmenistan

1.76

1.67

0.09

5.4%

0.93

0.83

89.5%

Armenia

2.07

2.05

0.03

1.3%

2.02

0.06

2.8%

MTS Belarus1

4.56

4.54

0.03

0.6%

4.32

0.24

5.6%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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