OREANDA-NEWS. On 21 July 2009 Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” – NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announced that its consolidated subscriber base reached 95.03 million users on June 30, 2009.

During June, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 1.05 million subscribers with over 953 thousand subscribers added in Russia.

Subscribers (mln)

June 30, 2009

May 31, 2009

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

June 30, 2008

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Total consolidated subscribers, end of period

95.03

93.98

1.05

1.1%

86.94

8.09

9.3%

Russia

67.42

66.47

0.95

1.4%

61.38

6.04

9.8%

  Moscow and the

  Moscow region

15.36

15.17

0.19

1.2%

14.11

1.25

8.8%

  St. Petersburg and the   Leningrad region

3.58

3.50

0.08

2.4%

2.96

0.62

20.9%

  Rest of Russia

48.49

47.81

0.68

1.4%

44.31

4.18

9.4%

Ukraine

17.78

17.73

0.05

0.3%

19.13

(1.35)

(7.1%)

Uzbekistan

6.53

6.51

0.02

0.3%

4.37

2.16

49.4%

Turkmenistan

1.25

1.23

0.02

1.6%

0.57

0.68

119.8%

Armenia

2.05

2.04

0.01

0.3%

1.49

0.56

37.3%

MTS Belarus

4.48

4.44

0.05

1.0%

4.03

0.45

11.3%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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