Exhibit 4.38

 

FEDERAL SERVICE FOR SUPERVISION IN THE SPHERE OF TELECOM,

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS

 

LICENSE

 

No. 94369 dated March 30, 2012

 

To render

 

local telephone communication services 
 using payphones.

 

This license has been granted to

 

Open Joint Stock Company

 

“Mobile TeleSystems”

 

Legal Entity (Individual Entrepreneur) 
 Primary State Registration Number 
 (PSRN/OGRN, OGRNIP)

 

1027700149124

 

Tax Identification Number (TIN/INN)

 

7740000076

 











 

Principal place of business (residence):

 

109147, Moscow, Marksistskaya St., 4

 

The territory of the services is specified in appendix hereto.

 

This license is valid through:

 

March 30, 2017

 

This license is granted based on the decision of the licensing authority - Order No. 1206 dated December 29, 2011

 

This license has an appendix which is as an integral part hereof and executed in two sheets

 

	
Deputy Head
    	
(signature) O. A. Ivanov
    


 

Official seal:

MINISTRY OF TELECOM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

FEDERAL SERVICE FOR SUPERVISION IN THE SPHERE OF TELECOM, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS

PSRN 1087746736296

 











 

Appendix to License No. 94369**

 

Licensing Requirements

 

1. Open Joint Stock Company “Mobile TeleSystems” (the licensee) shall keep the term of this license.

 

Short company name:

 

OJSC “MTS”or OJSC “Mobile TeleSystems”

 

	
PSRN 1027700149124
    	
TIN 7740000076
    


 

Principal place of business:

 

109147, Moscow, Marksistskaya St., 4

 

2. The licensee agrees to commence rendering of the communication services hereunder on or before March 30, 2012.

 

3. The licensee shall only render the communication services hereunder in the territory of Moscow.

 

4. The licensee, hereunder, shall make the following available to the subscriber*:

 

a) local telephone connections for voice data communication;

 

b) access to telematic communication services and local, intercity and international telephone services, as well as to data communication services, excluding the data communication services for the purposes of voice data communication;

 

c) access to the information service system;

 

d) free-of-charge 24-hour telephone access to emergency services.

 

5. The licensee agrees to render the communication services in accordance with the rules for rendering of communications services, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

 

6. The licensee shall comply with the rules of the communications network connection and interaction, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, when providing the communication services, connecting the local telephone network(s) of the licensee to the public communication network, connecting other communication networks to the local telephone network(s) of the licensee, transferring and keeping records of traffic in the local telephone network(s) of the licensee, transferring and keeping records of traffic from/to communication network(s) of other operators.

 











 

7. This license has been issued following the processing results of the license renewal application No. 87177 dated March 30, 2007, without bidding (auction, tender, etc). The licensing requirements are not specified for the performance of liabilities accepted by the licensee when participating in the bidding (auction, tender, etc) to obtain this license.

 

8. The licensee rendering the services hereunder shall abide by the terms set for the allocation of radio bands and assignment of radio frequency or radio frequency channel.

 

9. The licensee shall have a network management system of its own, meeting the network management regulations established by the Federal executive body in the sphere of telecommunications.

 

10. The licensee shall meet the requirements for communication networks and facilities, established by the Federal executive authority by agreement with authorized government bodies engaged in the special investigative activities, for the purpose of carrying out such activities and other measures to prevent the disclosure of organizational and tactical methods of such activities.

 

11. The licensee is not a universal service operator. The licensing requirements are not specified for the provision of universal services subject to universal service contracts concluded with the authorized executive body

 

12. The licensee shall provide information on the calculating basis of the mandatory deductions (non-tax payments) to the universal service reserve in such manner and form as established by the Federal executive body in the sphere of telecommunications.

 




*                               The services rendered hereunder may be accompanied by other services technologically and inseparably associated with local telephone services, excluding local telephone services using payphones and shared-access facilities and aimed at increasing their customer value, unless it requires a separate license.

 

**                          This license has been issued to extend the term of the license No. 87177 dated March 30, 2007

 

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Laced, numbered and sealed 3 ( three )   sheets
    	
 
    
	
 
    
	
Head of Department,   Maintenance of Registers of Radiofrequency Assignments and Telecommunications   Licenses
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
(signature) I.   Yu. Zavidnaya.
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
JAN 30, 2012.
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Official seal:
    	
 
    
	
MINISTRY OF TELECOM AND   MASS COMMUNICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
    
	
FEDERAL SERVICE FOR SUPERVISION IN THE SPHERE OF   TELECOM, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS
    
	
PSRN 1087746736296