April is historically on par or weaker than March in terms of cellular sales. The total net adds in Russia were 2.1 mln vs. 2.4 mln in March 2004 (1.1 mln a year ago in April 2003). The penetration in the country surpassed 30% while it was only 15% back in April 2003.

MTS won Moscow net sales in April, while Vimpelcom dominated in St.Petersburg and in overall regional sales. MegaFon's final steps to "clean" the subscriber base by introducing stricter churn policies across the whole Russia resulted in rather weak performance in April, although the company's additions in Moscow were stable with subscriber base exceeding 1 mln in the capital as of April 30.

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