Development of the cellular communication in Russia

The article examines main trends on the cellular communication market in Russia, dynamics in the amount and structure of the population expenses on vocal and additional cellular services. It also analyses dependence of the cellular services consumption on the prices per minute offered by separate operators and across the market as a whole. It shows that the high rates of development of the cellular communication market in Russia in recent years were resultant from underdevelopment of the telephone network that caused a high unsatisfied demand for cellular services. The author also proves that the distribution of cellular services consumers between cellular operators is directly related to the levels of prices offered by operators as compared to the average market price.