OREANDA-NEWS. On 24 August 2009 Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” – NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announced that its consolidated subscriber base reached 95.65 million users on July 31, 2009.

During July, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.62 million subscribers with over 510 thousand subscribers added in Russia.

Subscribers (mln)

Jule 31, 2009

June 30, 2009

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Jule 31, 2008

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Total consolidated subscribers, end of period

95.65

95.03

0.62

0.7%

87.26

8.39

9.6%

Russia

67.93

67.42

0.51

0.8%

61.86

6.07

9.8%

  Moscow and the
  Moscow region

14.85

15.36

(0.51)

(3.3%)

14.14

0.71

5.1%

  St. Petersburg and the   Leningrad region

3.66

3.58

0.08

2.3%

3.01

0.65

21.7%

  Rest of Russia

49.42

48.49

0.93

1.9%

44.71

4.71

10.5%

Ukraine

17.79

17.78

0.01

0.1%

18.60

(0.81)

(4.3%)

Uzbekistan

6.55

6.53

0.02

0.4%

4.61

1.94

42.2%

Turkmenistan

1.33

1.25

0.08

5.9%

0.64

0.69

105.9%

Armenia

2.04

2.05

(0.01)

(0.1%)

1.56

0.48

31.2%

MTS Belarus1

4.50

4.48

0.02

0.5%

4.07

0.43

10.7%

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