OJSC "Mobile TeleSystems" JSC, the leading telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, announced the number of subscribers as of August 31, 2011. As the vice president of sales and service MTS Vadim Savchenko, in the period MTS continues to implement strategies to improve business efficiency in a saturated market. The company has changed the principles of interaction with dealers, abandoning the artificial stimulation of sales of SIM-cards that, in the "low" end of the summer season, allowed to further reduce the inefficient operating costs and increase profitability.
The subscriber base, mln. August 31,
2011 July 31,
2011 Growth
Ab. %
Russia 70.19 70.82 -0.63 -0.9%
Moscow and Moscow region 13.23 13.40 -0.16 -1.2%
Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad region 3.85 3.88 -0.03 -0.7%
Rest of Russia 53.10 53.54 -0.44 -0.8%
Ukraine 18.89 18.73 0.160 0.86%
Uzbekistan 9.83 9.60 0.23 2.4%
Armenia 2.49 2.49 0.00 0.1%
Belarus 4.83 4.79 0.03 0.7%
Total consolidated subscribers, end of period 101.40 101.64 -0.24 -0.2%
