MTS Turkmenistan could be operational again as early as next month, Prime Business News Agency reports, citing Vladimir Yevtushenkov, a major shareholder in AFK Sistema, which holds a 50.8% stake in the Turkmen cellco’s parent company Russia-based Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). Following on from reports last month that a deal had been reached with the Turkmen authorities which would allow the former market leader to re-enter the sector, Mr Yevtushenkov was cited as saying this week: ‘I think that (operations will be resumed) in a month or a month and a half.’ As noted in TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, following the one-month suspension of MTS Turkmenistan’s licence the cellco was quick to claim that it concession was not due to expire until February 2012. Despite this, and contrary to its expectations of being back online by end-January 2011, that month the Turkmen Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) publicly stated that the operating agreement it signed with MTS in 2005 was only valid for five years
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OVETEL MTS Turkmenistan to re-launch next month?
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