Regional mobile operator closes its NMT-450 network down

License No. 35098 giving Uralwestcom CJSC the right to render cellular communication services in NMT-450i standard will expire on September 1, 2006. Therefore, since September 1, 2006 no cellular communication services in NMT-450i standard will be rendered and the company will confine its operations to running the Skylink-Yekaterinburg network. This was reported by Uralwestcom CJSC PR-department.