Mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) ended September with a consolidated customer base of 67.59 million customers, up from 50.36 million in September last year. In Russia, the company had 49.99 million customers, up 28.6 percent from 38.87 million in September last year. In the Moscow region the company had 11 million customers, up from 9.67 million in the same period in 2005. In the St Petersburg and Leningrad region, MTS saw its subscriber base hit 2.69 million, up 16.1 percent year-on-year.In Ukraine MTS’ customer base reached 16.36 million, up almost 50 percent from 10.94 in September 2005. In Uzbekistan MTS ended the month with 1.09 million customers, compared with 490,000 in 2005. The company had 140,000 customers in Turkmenistan, up 140.4 percent from last year’s 60,000 subscribers. MTS Belarus, in which MTS has a 49 percent stake, had 2.89 million customers, up 56.2 percent from 1.85 million in September 2005.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com