VivaCell-MTS reports 28% growth of subscribers

YEREVAN, January 25, /ARKA/: Armenia’s largest mobile phone operator ViVaCell-MTS said in a statement the number of its subscribers rose by 2.8% in 2009 to 2.07 million. The statement said the clientele base grew by 0.6% in 2009, rising, particularly, by 1.3% in December 2009.

According to Russian MTS which owns ViVaCell, the lowest clientele base growth rate was in Armenia and the highest-90%- in Turkmenistan..

In terms of figures the highest growth was reported by Russian regions (Moscow and Leningrad regions not counted), where the number of subscribers grew last year by 5.57 million. The consolidated number of MTS subscribers grew by 7.1% to 97.8 million people.

VivaCell-MTS (K-Telecom CJSC) is the leading Armenian mobile operator, providing a wide range of Voice and Data services. Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS”) is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS. Together with its subsidiaries, the company services about 98 million subscribers. The regions of Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, in which MTS and its associates and subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million. -0-