04 November 2003 12:28
Subscriber numbers up for joint Russian-Belarusian mobile phone company
Minsk, 4 November: The subscriber base of the Russian-Belarusian joint venture, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), in Belarus
rose to 360,500 active clients as of 1 November, from 46,000 as of 1 January, the company said in a press release on
Tuesday [4 November].
Currently, there are three mobile operators on the cellular market in Belarus, representing the GSM 900/1800, NMT 450
and CDMA2000 networks.
MTS's share of the market stands at around 34 per cent.
The company is a joint venture between Russia's largest mobile operator, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), and
Belarus's long-distance operator, Mezhdugorodnaya Svyaz [International Communications]. The companies hold
respective stakes of 49 per cent and 51 per cent in the joint venture. The venture's charter capital stands at 5m
dollars. [Passage omitted]
[Prime-TASS news agency] |
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