MOSCOW, Russia-The overall mobile penetration in Russia reached 15.3 percent of the population, or 22.23 million users, in April, according to newly released statistics from Moscow-based consultancy J’son & Partners.
Gross additions in April in the country were 930,000, with Mobile Telesystems leading in terms of new additions. MTS leads the country in total subscribers with 7.89 million, followed by VimpelCom with 6.46 million. However, in Moscow alone, VimpelCom has 4.04 million subscribers, followed by MTS’ 3.74 million Moscow users.
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Two new operators based in Krasnoyarsk-SibChallenge and Yeniseytelecom-made it into the top 10 list of Russian operators, with 114,000 subscribers each.