Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
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The first question comes from Miss Anna Kupriano. Please state your company name followed by your question.
Anna Kupriyanova – Renaissance Capital
Good evening, it’s Anna Kupriyanova from Renaissance Capital. I have two questions. The first one is regarding your share program. Could you please give us an update as to what is the current status of the program, and in particular what percentage of your extension shares has as of today?
And the second question is regarding (inaudible) of your pool. Could you please tell us the composition of the exchange quarter (inaudible) fourth quarter 2006 and including the impact from items received from mobile usages and other sectors?
And in addition could you please comment on the dynamics of your fixed mobile for the fourth quarter 2006 and probably give a breakdown of your traffic 60&6 mobile, mobile 26 and mobile to mobile calls? Thank you.
Leonid Melamed
Let me start with the first question regarding the share buyback and afterwards Mikhail Shamolin. The current status of the program is that it is up and running as it was approved by our board of directors this December.
Let me remind the key effects about that program. The approval was for buying back up to 10% of the issued shares or ADRs within one year. Currently, as we have said, we have purchased approximately 2 million ADRs which constitutes as of December 31, approximately 0.5%. Half a percent of the old shares issued. Now I’ll pass you over to Mikhail.
Mikhail Shamolin
Anna, could you please repeat your question on the ARPU?
Anna Kupriyanova – Renaissance Capital
I just asked if you could comment regarding the change of the Rushmore to quarter, and the different composition of the change. I mean the impact from $0.1 or $0.4 included introductions of connections, changes and growth in mobile usage, and also probably you can comment on fixed mobile trust direction in fourth quarter and give us distribution for the classic between 6th mobile, mobile 26, and mobile to mobile calls.
Mikhail Shamolin
Yeah, OK. Fine. As far as the ARPU dynamic goes, two major factors are driving this. One factor driving the up or down was the decrease in the roaming because as you know this is near to the fact that we have quite a heavy customer base in the summer, who therefore spend less in the fourth quarter, so that was a decreasing factor.
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