Russia & Central Asia Q4 2006 - GSM Slips Slightly
GSM dominates the mobile market in Russia & Central Asia, with all but 1.4m of the region's 171.7m mobile connections at the end of 2006 being accounted for by the global standard technology. There was, however, a very small shift in the trend in Q4 2006: the proportion of the customer base made up of GSM customers - which has been growing steadily over the years - actually fell.