VIVACELL ARMENIAN MOBILE OPERATOR RENAMED VIVACELL-MTS

ARKA
Sep 5, 2008

YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. VivaCell Armenian mobile communication
operator carried out co-branding of VivaCell and renamed it
VivaCell-MTS, General Director of the company Ralf Yirikyan reported.

>From now on the company will be combining VivaCell and VivaCell-MTS
logos, he said at the opening of a new round-the-clock service center
of the company in Yerevan.

Yirikyan said that co-branding will allow the company applying the
extensive experience of the basic company – MTS – to the Armenian
market.

In his turn, Vice-President of "MTS Zarubejniye docherniye kompaniyi"
(MTS daughter companies abroad) business unit Oleg Raspopov made
appraisal of professional skills and management experience of VivaCell
staff. The results achieved by the company during this short period
of time are impressive indeed, he said.

Mobile Telesystems open joint stock company (MTS) is the owner of
VivaCell’s control stock and the biggest mobile operator in Russia
and the CIS.

VicaCell provides coverage of all the territory of Armenia and has GSM
900/1800 standard license valid till the end of 2019. The company’s
subscribers database had included 1.56mln people by the end of July
this year.