Russia's Mobile TeleSystems, one of the country's top three mobile operators, may suspend operations in Turkmenistan, MTS spokeswoman Yelena Kokhanovskaya said on Monday.
"We have started informing our subscribers about possible network outage from tomorrow," she told RIA Novosti news agency, without mentioning when communications would be restored.
On Thursday, Turkmenistan's Telecoms Ministry said it would suspend the licenses of a local subsidiary of MTS, Barash Communications Technologies, Inc. (BCTI), for a month from December 21 after a trilateral agreement between BCTI, MTS and the Telecoms Ministry signed in 2005 expires.
MOSCOW, December 20 (RIA Novosti)
