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Russia’s Delta Telecom user base up to 130,000 users

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ST. PETERSBURG, Nov 10 (Prime-Tass) -- The subscriber base of Russia's St. Petersburg-based mobile phone operator Delta Telecom increased to 130,000 people as of now from about 90,000 as of January 1, the company's spokesman told Prime-Tass Thursday.

Delta Telecom provides IMT-MC-450 standard services under the Sky Link brand name in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

The spokesman said that the company's average revenue per user (ARPU) stood at U.S. $58 in September, adding that its ARPU has amounted to between $58 and $61 in the last six months in a row.

The spokesman said that Delta Telecom plans to launch Evolution Data Optimized, or EV-DO, technology that would allow increasing the speed of data transfer to 2.4 mbit/s from the current 0.16 mbit/s.

Delta Telecom was established in 1991 and started developing its network under the Sky Link brand in late 2002.

Sky Link was set up in July 2003 to promote the IMT-MC-450 standard, or CDMA2000 for the 450MHz frequency band, in Russia. Sky Link operates in 19 Russian regions and has a license covering 65 of Russia’s 89 regions with a total population of 104 million people, or 72% of Russia’s population.[/b)