Revenues From Telecom Services in Russia Rose By 4.9 Percent

This is reported by the press service of Russian Ministry of Communications. The indicators are based on statistics of investments and fixed assets of  telecom companies, information exchange on communication networks, data service-level of comminvestment unications and economic indicators of the industry.
Revenues from telecommunications services amounted to 649.5 billion rubles. That is 4.9 per cent increase over the same period last year. Mobile operators' revenue increased by 6,4 percent  up to 284 billion rubles. The income of local telephone services in cities increased by 11.1 percent, rural areas - by 9.9 percent.