Predicted a decrease in the MTS market of cellular communication.

In 2009 the market for cellular services will decline by 10.5 per cent passes PRIME-TASS referring to the words of Vice-President for Commercial Affairs of MTS Mikhail Ð"ерчука.
Reducing the volume of the market, according to Ð"ерчука will be linked to the weakening of the ruble against the dollar and the decline in consumption. In MTS expect the average revenue per subscriber per month in 2009 will decrease from $ 12 to 10.
It is projected that in 2010 the market will grow by 6.2 per cent, while in 2011 and 2012 the growth rate will increase to 10 per cent. Along with them will grow and the average revenue per subscriber.
Operators due to changes in exchange rates have already begun to raise tariffs for the use of cellular communication. Thus, the rise of the roaming service announced MegaFon and VimpelCom.
In the past year, according to the agency claiming to unnamed experts, the volume of Russian market of cellular communication was 555 billion rubles, which corresponds to 23 billion U.S. dollars at the average rate in 2008. At the same time, according to MForum Analytics, in 2007 the market of cellular communication of all the countries of the former Soviet Union amounted to only 9.8 billion dollars.