MTS to bring iPhone 3G to Russia
Mobile TeleSystems, said to be the largest mobile operator in Russia and the CIS, has today announced that it will launch iPhone 3G in Russia tomorrow (October 3).
"We are very excited to partner with Apple to launch iPhone 3G in Russia, a testimony to our success in bringing mobile communications to the largest customer base in the country," said Aleksander Popovskiy, Head of MTS Russia. "MTS was the first Russian operator to develop a pan-regional 3G network, and we are focused on offering our 61 million subscribers the most innovative multimedia content and mobile broadband Internet solutions."
The company will start offering iPhone 3G at midnight on Friday, October 3, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg, followed by other major cities in Russia later that day.
MTS will sell iPhone 3G in around 1,400 MTS-branded retail stores, as well as through its dealer networks.
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