MTS Ukraine has won a tender to provide mobile services to the state-owned gas transport and storing company Ukrtransgas.
The contract is worth US$4, 27,774 in total.
On 03.29.11, In Mobile, By Editor
On 03.24.11, In Mobile, By Editor
MTS Ukraine has expanded its MTS Connect 3G service to four additional regions. MTS Connect 3G wireless broadband will now be available in the towns of Perevalsk and Sverdlovsk in the Lugansk region, in Mirgorod in the Poltava region, and in the Vita-Poshtova agglomeration in the Kiev region.
Coverage has also been expanded in Kiev, Lviv and Dniprodzerzhinsk, where new base stations have been launched. MTS Ukraine now offers the service in over 220 cities and towns across the country.
On 03.24.11, In Mobile, By Editor
MTS Ukraine has appointed a new CEO- Vasil Latsanich . As per reports, Latsanich replaces Andrey Dubovskov in the position. Latsanich has earlier worked as CMO in MTS Ukraine.
On 03.24.11, In Mobile, By Editor
MTS Ukraine has introduced micro SIMs for its prepaid users.
The offer is accessible in retail outlets of the operator for US$1.25. MTS Ukraine earlier offered micro SIMs for its corporate and postpaid subscribers only.
On 03.05.11, In Mobile, By Editor
MTS’s current CEO, Mikhail Shamolin is stepping down from the role as he is expected to be appointed to the position of President and CEO of Sistema at its board meeting. Sistema is the controlling shareholder in MTS.
Shamolin is being replaced by the current head of MTS Ukraine, Mr. Andrei Dubovskov, who takes up the role with immediate effect.
Mr. Dubovskov joined MTS in 2004 as head of the Company’s operations in Nizhny Novgorod. In the beginning of 2008, Mr. Dubovskov became Head of Business Unit MTS Ukraine, the Company’s second largest business unit in terms of revenues.
According to Mr. Ron Sommer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of MTS, they are grateful to Mikhail for the tremendous amount of work he put in and the results that were achieved under his leadership. He was instrumental in making MTS into an integrated player through the implementation of the 3i Strategy. The Board has full confidence that Andrei will continue Mikhail’s undertakings in executing on the strategic priorities of the company as it looks to extract further growth from the Russia and CIS markets of operation. Andrei’s wealth of experience in the telecommunications industry and at MTS itself provides him with the necessary skill set to take MTS to even greater heights. On behalf of the Board, he welcomes Andrei to his new position.
Following Mr. Dubovskov’s appointment, Mr. Vasyl Latsanych, the Chief Marketing Director of Business Unit MTS Ukraine will be the acting Head of Business Unit MTS Ukraine.
On 02.25.11, In Mobile, By Editor
MTS Ukraine is planning to launch a single quality monitoring system for value-added services on its network.
The operator will install 30 local modules with dedicated software and a central server in Kiev for the system.
The system will test VAS based on known subscriber behavior, including SMS, MMS, WAP, EDGE/GPRS and other services. The system is supplied by Russian integrator Sitronics.
On 04.01.10, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: A net loss of 550,000 mobile subscribers in 2009 has been announced by telecom operator MTS Ukraine going down 3.1% year-on-year to close at 17.56 million active customer accounts at the end of December.
At the same time, 140,000 subscribers have been the number of subscribers of the operator’s 450MHz CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev A-based mobile broadband service ‘MTS Connect 3G’. The revenue of the company decreased by 4.9% year-on-year in local currency to UAH8.17 billion (USD1.02 billion).
2.3 % fall in the net profit to UAH681 million and 5.4% drop in the OIBDA to UAH3.68 billion has also been reported by the company.
Less than 1% decline in blended average monthly income per user (ARPU) in 2009 has been noted by the Russian-owned company. A slight increase in the ARPU over the same period of 2008 to UAH38.3 in the fourth quarter of the year has been noted. Mobile broadband ARPU in the twelve-month period was just above UAH100.
On 03.03.10, In Mobile, By Editor
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: With an increase of 7.1% year-on-year, the consolidated customer base of Russia’s Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) group reached 97.81 million, up from 91.33 million. Even the flagship domestic operation of the company had 69.3 million customers at year-end, up nearly five million from a year earlier.
However, a decline in the customer base has been faced by MTS in its Moscow market from 14.9 million at end-2008, to 13.6 million a year later. While growth was recorded in all MTS markets, only one international market, MTS Ukraine saw its customer base falling from 18.12 million to 17.56 million year-on-year.
The cellco’s operations in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus ended 2009 with 7.07 million, 1.76 million, 2.07 million and 4.56 million customers respectively.
On 07.16.07, In Mobile, By Editor
Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has seen its consolidated subscriber base hit 74.67 million at the end of June, up 16.5 percent year-on-year and 0.04 percent from the end of May. In Russia MTS signed up 530,000 new subscribers to end the month with a total of 52.68 million customers. MTS Ukraine again lost customers in June (610,000) and ended the month with 19.81 million, and MTS Uzbekistan’s customer base totalled 1.95 million, up by 100,000 new users. In Turkmenistan the company added 20,000 new subscribers to hit 0.24 million and MTS Belarus ended June with 3.48 million subscribers after adding 70,000 new customers.
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