OREANDA-NEWS. On 23 June 2009 Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS” – NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS, announced that its consolidated subscriber base reached 93.98 million users on May 31, 2009.

During May, MTS’ consolidated subscriber base increased by 0.95 million subscribers with over 790 thousand subscribers added in Russia.

Subscribers (mln)

May 31, 2009

Apr 30, 2009

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

May 31, 2008

Growth
Subs

Growth
%

Total consolidated subscribers, end of period

93.98

93.03

0.95

1.0%

86.30

7.68

8.9%

Russia

66.47

65.68

0.79

1.2%

60.86

5.61

9.2%

  Moscow and the
  Moscow region

15.17

15.00

0.17

1.1%

14.03

1.14

8.1%

  St. Petersburg and the   Leningrad region

3.50

3.43

0.07

2.1%

2.91

0.59

20.1%

  Rest of Russia

47.81

47.25

0.56

1.2%

43.91

3.90

8.9%

Ukraine

17.73

17.82

(0.09)

(0.5%)

19.37

(1.64)

(8.5%)

Uzbekistan

6.51

6.30

0.21

3.2%

4.10

2.41

58.9%

Turkmenistan

1.23

1.18

0.05

4.9%

0.52

0.71

137.3%

Armenia

2.04

2.06

(0.02)

(0.8%)

1.46

0.58

40.1%

MTS Belarus1

4.44

4.41

0.03

0.7%

3.99

0.45

11.1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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