Russian mobile phone subscriptions up in Q2
August 29, 2014 at 08:55 AM EDT
MOSCOW, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Russian mobile phone subscriptions stood at 243.1 million at the end of June, equal to about 170 percent of the population, up from 241.5 million three months earlier, data from market research group AC&M showed. The number is higher than 100 percent because many people own more than one SIM card. Russia's population reached 143 million in 2012, according to the Federal Statistics Service. AC&M provided the following data (millions of subscribers, including tho