Regions Accelerate
Total number of cellular subscribers reached 25 mln milestone while Moscow market grew over 9 mln subscribers. We expect that by the year-end 2003 Russian cellular market will expand to 32 mln users.
Top 10 Cellular Operators
Company | June 30, 2003 | May 31, 2003 | ||
Total | Moscow | Total | Moscow | |
MTS* | 11,490,000 | 4,135,000 | 10,815,000 | 3,945,000 |
Vimpelcom | 7,455,000 | 4,435,000 | 6,951,000 | 4,235,000 |
MegaFon** | 4,255,000 | 440,300 | 4,009,393 | 407,936 |
SMARTS Group | 807,700 | 758,400 | ||
Uralsvyazinform | 726,000 | 659,500 | ||
Siberia Telecom | 298,331 | 234,619 | ||
N.Novgorod Cellular | 248,025 | 233,100 | ||
Tomsk Cellular Communications | 158,400 | 145,799 | ||
Ekaterinburg Cellular Communications | 143,500 | 129,800 | ||
SibChallenge | 128,000 | 120,000 |
*including UMC of Ukraine (2 mln) and Belarus subscribers (170,000)
** including 7,200 in TT-Mobile (Tajikistan)
St.Petersburg Market, June 2003 | Net Additions in Regions, Including St.Petersburg |
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Vimpelcom has more than 50,000 users in St.Petersburg - the number that the company reached in 2.5 months of operations in the city. The company also enlisted its subscriber #7,000,000 in June.
Russian Cellular Market Breakdown, June 2003

NOTE: The chart above includes only Russian subscribers, all CIS networks are excluded from the calculation.
Moscow Market
Total market size in the Moscow license area has reached 9 mln users bringing cellular penetration in the region to 53%. According to the preliminary results of 2002 nation-wide census, population of Moscow and region is 17 mln. Since the final results of the census are not available, we shall use the preliminary data from now on.
In June Vimpelcom became a leader in Moscow net additions regaining the position lost to MTS in December 2002.
Moscow Net Additions in June 2003
