In January 2010, the number of subscribers of Ukrainian mobile-telephone operators rose by 0.09% or 50,000 to 55.370 million, compared to December.
has learned this from results of a research conducted by iKS-Consulting, a wording of which was made available for the agency.
The number of subscribers of GSM operators made up 53.796 million (97.16% of the market), subscribers of CDMA operators 1.129 million (2.04% of the market).
In particular, number of Kyivstar’s subscribers made up 22.009 million, MTS’s subscribers 17.524 million, Astelit company (life 
brand) 12.261 million and Ukrainian Radiosystems (Beeline brand) 2.002 million.
In 2009, the number of subscribers of Ukrainian mobile-telephone operators shrank by 0.6% or 360,000 subscribers, as compared with 2008.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, in 2008, the number of subscribers of mobile-telephone operators rose by 0.8% from 55.222 million subscribers to 55.682 million subscribers as compared with the previous year.