Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you, sir. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from the Ms. Leila Govi [ph]. Please state your company name followed by your question.
Unidentified Analyst
Hi, this is Leila Govi [ph] from Egerton. I have a couple questions. The first one is if you could just please reiterate again what CapEx you are looking for for the full year this year and also next year, so this year if it's still around $2 billion. The second question is on page 14 of your presentation, you referred to the proportion of lower ARPU customers as a percentage of your total subscriber base. Could you tell us what they represent in terms of your total revenues for Russia? The third question I have is you referred to Ukraine margin hit from the introduction of the CDMA-450 network rollout. Could you just say how much that hurts your margins by this quarter? And sorry, if I can ask one last question, which is just in terms of the ARPU growth in Russia that we saw this quarter, looking on a year-on-year basis, is it fair to say that this represents a more underlying like-for-like trend or is there still contributions from things like call set up, because this was introduced partially in Q3 last year? Thank you.
Leonid Melamed - President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you Leila. So, let me... Leonid Melamed. Let me answer the first question. We are not in a position now to change our guidance on CapEx expenditures for the year 2007 and we keep on... our focus on $2 billion expenditures including expenditures for 3G. For 2008, we are presently not in the position to give a guidance at least for the time being.
To answer the second question, we have sort of... there are two issues. One issue is a low ARPU customers, one can say the customers in our pre-paid segment. Our pre-paid segment... in Russia among the customers is up to... customer base is up to 90% for the time being. So there is a significant difference in ARPU between post-paid and pre-paid and that's what you see from the documents that is... from the presentation that's been distributed. So, the ARPU for pre-paid is like almost five times lower than the ARPU for the post-paid. CDMA-450 in Ukraine, we've just launched the services in Q3. That's why it has had no impact on our margin in Ukraine in Q3. And on the fourth question, I would ask Mikhail to comment.
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