Exhibit 4.96

 

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

 

LICENSE

 

No. 110741 dated April 01, 2013

 

To render

 

intra-zone telephone communication services

 

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:

 

December 18, 2014.

 

This license is issued based on the decision of the licensing authority - Order No. 601 dated June 04, 2013

 

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. 110741**

 

Licensing Requirements

 

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

 

Short company name:

 

OJSC “MTS”

 

	
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 April 01, 2013.

 

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

 

4.   The licensee shall make the following available hereunder to the subscriber and/or user*:

 

a)   intra-zone telephone connections for:

 

voice data communication;  
 facsimile communication; 
 data communication;

 

b)   access to telematic and data communication services, excluding the data communication services for the purposes of voice data communication; and

 

c)   access to the information service system;

 

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

 

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7.   This license has been issued following the processing results of the license renewal application No 71718 dated December 18, 2009, 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 radio-frequency spectrum is not used in the provision of communication services hereunder.

 

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 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 to be rendered hereunder may be accompanied by other services technologically and inseparably associated with intra-zone telephone communication services 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. 71718 dated December 18, 2009.

 

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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.
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
Jun   11, 2013
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
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