VivaCell-MTS announces number of SMS messages and calls on December 31 and January 1
VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, announces that the network handled 4,739,081 SMS messages on December 31, the New Years Eve before midnight, with a further 3,654,031 on January 1, 2011. At the same time, 18,181,127 calls were handled through VivaCell-MTS network on December 31, 2010 before midnight, and another 19,123,344 on January 1, 2011.
In total 8,393,112 short messages and 37,304,471 calls were handled by VivaCell-MTS network on December 31, 2010 and January 1, 2011.
Compared to the same period of the previous year, the number of calls increased by 15%.