Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Revenue from cellular communications for the year will grow in Russia by one third.

Russian companies in 2008 will earn at the cellular 27.4 billion dollars, said the forecast ComNews Research. This was seven billion more than in 2007. Overall, industry revenues will grow by more than a third (34.2 percent), as compared to the first three quarters of 2007 and 2008 - at 37.6 percent.
In the fourth quarter of 2008, the number of mobile subscribers in Russia is 186.3 million. It is almost seven million more than in the previous quarter and 19 million more than in the third quarter of 2007.
Russia holds first place in the industry's projected income for 2008. In Ukraine, revenues amount to little more than five billion dollars in Kazakhstan - the entire 1.8 billion, while Belarus - only 935 million.
Ctoit noted that the growth of industry in the CIS republics slowed, but in Russia the rate of growth, in contrast, for the year increased from 24 to 34 percent. The slowdown in income growth SomNews Research analysts associated with devaluation.

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