Exhibit 4.46


 


FEDERAL SUPERVISORY
SERVICE FOR MASS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION


AND PROTECTION OF
CULTURAL HERITAGE


 


LICENCE


 


No. 56081


 


Licensee’ details:


 


Mobile
TeleSystems


 


Open
Joint Stock Company


 


Legal address (place
of residence):


 


109147 Moscow,
Marksistskaya St., 4


 


Service description:


 


Mobile
Radiophone Communication Services


 


This
Licence includes licence provisions on 3 pages


 


	
  Effective
  period of Licence :

  	
  from
  April 28, 2008 to April 28, 2013

  	
   

  
	
   

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Date
  of beginning of services provision:

  	
  April 28,
  2008

  	
   

  
	
  (on
  or prior to)

  	
   

  



 


 


	
  Deputy Manager,

  	
   

  
	
  Federal Supervisory
  Service for

  	
   

  
	
  Mass Media,
  Communication and

  	
   

  
	
  Protection of Cultural
  Heritage

  	
  S.B. Vlasova

  



 

















 


Conditions
for Performance of Activities


Under
Licence No. 56081**


 


1.             Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (the
Licensee) shall be obliged to keep the term of this License.


 


2.             The Licensee shall be
obliged to commence the provision of services under this  License on or prior to April 28, 2008.


 


3.             The Licensee shall be
obliged to provide mobile radiophone communication services (GSM 900/1800
networks) under this License in the territory of:


 


	
  Republic:

  	
  Karelia

  
	
  Autonomous
  District: 

  	
  Nenetsk

  
	
  Regions:

  	
  Arkhangelsk, Vologda,
  Kaliningrad,

  
	
  Leningrad, Murmansk,
  Novgorod, Pskov

  
	
  Cities:

  	
  St. Petersburg

  



 


4.             In accordance with this
Licence, the Licensee shall be obliged to ensure that a subscriber is provided
with*:


 


a)              an
access to the Licensee’s network;


b)             connections
in the Licensee’s mobile radiophone communication network for receiving
(transferring) voice and non-voice information ensuring the communication
continuity while providing services, irrespective of location of the
subscriber, including while his/her moving;


c)              connections
with subscribers and (or) users of fixed public-switched telephone networks;


d)             possibility
of using GSM 900/1800 mobile radiophone communication network while being
outside the territory specified in the License;


e)              an
access to telematic communication services and data transmission services,
except for data transmission for the purpose of voice data transfer;


f)                an
access to call centre system;


g)             possibility
of making free twenty-four-hour calls to emergency services.


 


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5.             The Licensee shall be
obliged to provide communication services in accordance with the Rules of
Provision of Communication Services approved by the Government of the Russian
Federation.


 


6.             While provisioning
communication services, the Licensee shall be obliged to observe the Rules of
Connection and Interaction of Electrical Communication Networks, approved by
the Government of the Russian Federation, when connecting the Licensee’s mobile
radiophone communication network to the public-switched network, connecting the
Licensee’s mobile radiophone communication network to other communication
networks, accounting and transferring the traffic in the Licensee’s mobile
radiophone communication network, accounting and transferring the traffic
from/to the communication networks of other operators.


 


7.             This Licensee was issued based
on results of considering the application for renewal of Licence No. 33910,
dated April 28, 1998 without tendering (auction, competition). The license
requirements for the Licensee’s discharge of obligations, undertaken by the
Licensee when participating in tenders (auction, competition) to obtain
respective license, were not established.


 


8.             The Licensee shall adhere to
the conditions, as established at the moment of allocation of frequencies and assignment
of a radio frequency or radio frequency channel, in the process of provision of
services under this License.


 


9.             The Licensee shall have
available a system to manage own communication network that should conform to
the standards applied to communication network management systems, as
prescribed by the federal executive body acting in the communication field.


 


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10.           The Licensee shall be
obliged to adhere to the requirements for networks and means of communication
regarding the performance of investigative work, as prescribed by the federal executive
body and approved by authorized state bodies which conduct
operational-investigative activities, and to take measures to prevent the
disclosure of organizational or tactical techniques of conducting of the above.


 






*                                         The
provision of services stipulated by this License can entail provisioning other
services which are technically integrated into mobile radiophone services and
are aimed at improvement of their customer value, provided no additional
license is required for this purpose.


 


**                                  This Licence was
issued as a renewal of Licence No. 33910, dated April 28, 1998.


 


	
  Deputy Manager,

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Federal Supervisory
  Service for

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Mass Media,
  Communication and

  	
   

  	
   

  
	
  Protection of Cultural
  Heritage

  	
  (stamp)

  	
  S.B. Vlasova