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Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS") is the
leading telecommunications group in Russia,
Eastern Europe and Central Asia, offering
mobile and fixed voice, broadband, pay TV as
well as content and entertainment services
in one of the world's fastest growing
regions. Including its subsidiaries, as of
December 31, 2010, the Group serviced over
108.1 million mobile subscribers in Russia,
Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia
and Belarus, a region that boasts a total
population of more than 230 million. The
Group’s fixed business, as of December 31,
2010, had a total of 9.9 million households
passed, 1.8 million broadband Internet and
2.6 million pay-TV subscribers.
MTS has been listed on the New York Stock
Exchange since July 2000 and trades under
the ticker MBT. The Company’s shares have
been listed locally on Moscow Interbank
Currency Exchange (MICEX) since November
2003 under the symbol MTSI. The free float
of the Company’s shares is approximately
48.8%. MTS is 51.2% majority-owned by
Sistema, the largest public diversified
financial corporation in Russia and the CIS.
In 2010, MTS' revenues reached $11.3
billion. According to GSM Association
Wireless Intelligence Information Service,
MTS ranks as the 2nd largest operator in
Europe by proportionate subscriptions at the
end of 2010.
MTS Brand
MTS launched its current brand in 2006,
building on the reputation as the leader and
highest quality operator in the region. The
brand was developed to attract customers in
a variety of cultural, socio-geographic and
income segments with the consistent message
of quality and leadership.
The strength of the brand was recognized
internationally in 2008, when MTS became the
first and only Russian company to enter
BRANDZ™ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands, a
ranking published by the Financial Times and
Millward Brown, a leading global market
research and consulting firm.
In December 2008, MTS extended its brand
outside the CIS borders. MTS and Shyam
Telelink Limited, JSFC Sistema's
telecommunications subsidiary in India,
announced the agreement to allow Shyam
Telelink to use MTS brand in India. The
decision to introduce the brand to India is
reflective of the brand’s success in the
Company’s markets of operation since its
launch in May 2006.
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