MOSCOW, Mar 6 (Prime-Tass) -- A Russian arbitration court has ruled that the Stavropol Region subsidiary of the country's third largest mobile operator MegaFon must reduce fees for calls to and from the users of Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), the Stavropol Region branch of the Federal Antimonopoly Service said Tuesday.
The Arbitration Court for the North Caucasus district sided with the antimonopoly regulator, which in April 2006 found Mobicom-Kavkaz, the MegaFon subsidiary, and StavTeleSot, a subsidiary of Russia's second largest mobile operator VimpelCom, guilty of violating antitrust law by setting higher tariffs for calls to and from users of MTS, Russia's biggest wireless operator.
The regulator ordered the two companies to set equal tariffs for all mobile operators effective May 1, 2006. Both operators appealed in the arbitration court.
On February 27, the court ruled that StavTeleSot also must reduce fees for calls to and from MTS.
MTS, VimpelCom and MegaFon are Russia's three largest mobile operators in terms of subscribers, and control around 85% of the Russian market, according to consulting agency Advanced Communications & Media (AC&M).
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