MTS Ukraine announces the launch of BlackBerry Internet Service for consumers

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Paris, June 6, 2008 — MTS Ukraine, a wholly owned subsidiary of OAO Mobile TeleSystems (NYCE: MBT) and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the launch of BlackBerry® Internet Service in the Ukraine for MTS customers. The new BlackBerry® service was deployed in Ukraine by Alcatel-Lucent.

BlackBerry®Internet Service from Research In Motion is now available to contract MTS subscribers both on the MTS-Ukraine network and on roaming partners' EDGE/GPRS networks. It is designed for smaller businesses and individuals, allowing users to access up to 10 supported personal email accounts (including most popular ISP email accounts such as, Yahoo!® Mail and Google™ Mail) from a single device.

"All over the world, the BlackBerry® solution is recognized as the leading wireless solution and has become an icon of high quality and business agility. We are proud that MTS is the first carrier launching the BlackBerry Internet Service for consumers in CIS countries. Moreover, with the launch of BlackBerry Internet Service, individual subscribers can now take advantage of many benefits of the BlackBerry solution already available to our corporate customers. I am sure that MTS-Ukraine subscribers will value the BlackBerry solution capabilities as an efficient and reliable tool for work and everyday life," said Andrey Dubovskov, director general of MTS-Ukraine.

The BlackBerry solutionconnects users to their business communications on the move as well as family and friends, by making it easier for them to make calls, email, surf the net, access their organiser and use a range of a mobile software applications for both work and play

Benefits of the BlackBerry Solution for Consumers

Simultaneous delivery of e-mails to any user's office or personal e-mail box and directly to Blackberry device. Personal e-mail services can include such popular services asYahoo!® Mail or Google™ Mail.
Attachments viewing is customized for mobile phone screen. Supported formats include: Microsoft® Word (DOC), Excel (XLS), Power Point (PPT), Adobe® (PDF), Zip-archives (ZIP), and various images (JPG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF).
Greater battery capacity extends operating time of the device without additional battery charge.
BlackBerry® Internet-service is available from MTS-Ukraine both in the home network, and in the roaming-partners' EDGE/GPRS networks.
Access up to 10 work and personal email accounts, plus an optional, new BlackBerry email address that comes with your BlackBerry smartphone
Browse websites and instant message using Yahoo IM, Google Talk and others on your BlackBerry smartphone
Stay organised and productivewith access to your calendar, address book, task and memo pad information and easily import the contacts from your existing desktop organizer software to your BlackBerry smartphone  
How to subscribe to BlackBerry Internet Service

To become a BlackBerryInternet Service subscriber it is necessary to buy a BlackBerry® smartphone and to order service activation in an MTS-Ukraine shop. E-mail access can be set up using the smartphone's set-up wizard upon purchase in the shop or through a user-friendly web interface in the section “BlackBerry® from MTS” on: www.mts.com.ua

The flat rate for using the service with unlimited data transmission volume is approximately $40. Costs of BlackBerry® smartphones depend on the device model service connection terms. Subscribers may select appropriate models and options on the service providers website: www.mts.com.ua/...in “BlackBerry” section.

Additional information
For additional information please visit www.mts.com.ua.



About MTS Ukraine
The MTS Ukraine network covers more than 97 of Ukraine territory where 99% of the population live. The company serves more than 19.46 million subscribers. MTS Ukraine owns licenses for providing mobile (GSM 900/1800, CDMA-450), fixed, toll, and long-distance communication services, and provides international roaming services on five continents. The company reported 1.608 billion revenues in 2007.

UMC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mobile Telesystems (MTS) (NYSE: MBT), the largest mobile operator in Russia and CIS countries. Together with its subsidiaries MTS provides services to more than 85.68 million subscribers. The 82 regions of Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, where MTS and its subsidiaries are licensed to provide GSM services, have a total population of more than 230 million. The Company’s shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange since June, 2000.

In april 200b MTS became the first Russian brand to be included in the BRANDZ™ rating published by Financial Times and Millward Brown international research agency.
Information in this press release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or future financial performance of MTS, as defined in the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward looking statements can be identified by terms such as “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “will,” “could,” “may” or “might,” or other similar expressions. These statements are only predictions and therefore actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. MTS disclaims any intention or obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events and circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Please refer to MTS's most recent Form 20-F as well as other filings by MTS with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These documents list and identify important factors, that may cause the actual results differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements, such as: potential fluctuations in quarterly results, our competitive environment, dependence on new service development and tariff plans, rapid technological and market change, acquisition strategy, risks associated with telecommunications infrastructure, risks associated with operating in Russia, volatility of stock price, financial risk management, and future growth subject to risks.

According to the agreement between Alcatel-Lucent and RIM, Alcatel-Lucent will use its regional presence to provide MTS-Ukraine with global integration, complex deployment, commissioning, and support services for the BlackBerry service in the Ukrainian market. Benefiting from Alcatel-Lucent's help in the solution delivery, technological integration, and deployment, MTS-Ukraine can focus completely on their customers while promptly reacting to the market requirements.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. RIM, Research In Motion and BlackBerry are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries. RIM assumes no obligations or liability and makes no representation, warranty, endorsement or guarantee in relation to any aspect of any third party products or services.


About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com



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