A quantity of subscribers MTS to the end of March composed 97,81 million

Operator MTS reported that the consolidated number of subscribers of company for state on March 31, 2010 composed 97,81 million users. As noted director “MTS Russia” Alexander [Popovskiy], in March taking into account seasonality the level of general connections MTS was above average quarterly, in this case in comparison with the first quarter of last year the level of general connections in the first quarter of 2010 remained stable. The reduction of user base in Moscow and Saint Petersburg is caused by the writing off of subscribers, who were connected last summer in the course of seasonal marketing actions. Under the conditions of saturating the market MTS it is oriented to an improvement in the quality of user base and optimizes the channels of its sales.

User base, millions of men. 31
March

2010 g.
28
February

2010 g.
Increase 31
March

2009 g.
Increase
AB. % AB. %
Consolidated number of subscribers to the end of the period 97,81 97,76 0,05 0,1% 92,19 5,62 6,1%
Russia 69,08 69,17 (0,09) (0,1%) 65,11 3,97 6,1%
Moscow and
Moscow region
13,30 13,50 (0,20) (1,5%) 14,92 (1,62) (10,9%)
Saint Petersburg and Leningrad region 3,68 3,71 (0,03) (0,7%) 3,38 0,30 9,0%
Remaining regions of Russia 52,10 51,96 0,14 0,3% 46,80 5,30 11,3%
Ukraine 17,35 17,39 (0,04) (0,2%) 17,94 (0,59) (3,3%)
Uzbekistan 7,38 7,29 0,09 1,2% 5,97 1,41 23,5%
Turkmenistan 1,90 1,82 0,08 4,0% 1,12 0,78 68,6%
Armenia 2,11 2,10 0,01 0,5% 2,05 0,06 2,9%
Belarus' 4,57 4,55 0,02 0,4% 4,42 0,15 3,5%