Exhibit 4.73

 

/Emblem of the Russian Federation/

 

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

 

LICENSE

 

No. 110698 dated April 01, 2013

 

To render

 

air broadcasting communication services

 

This License has been granted to

 

Mobile TeleSystems

 

Open Joint-Stock Company

 

Principal State Registration Number of the legal entity (individual entrepreneur)

(PSRN, PSRNIE)

 

1027700149124

 

Tax Identification Number  (TIN)

 

7740000076

 











 

Principal place of business (residence):

 

4, Marksistskaya street, Moscow, 109147

 

The territory of communication service rendering is specified in the annex hereto.

 

This License is valid through:

 

June 28, 2015

 

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

 

This License has the annex which is as an integral part hereof and executed in 2 page (pages).

 

 

	
Deputy Head
    	
/Signature/  O.A. Ivanov
    


 

Stamp here

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

 











 

Annex to the License No. 110698**

 

Licensing Requirements

 

1. Mobile TeleSystems Open Joint-Stock Company (the licensee) shall comply with the validity period of this License.

 

Abbreviated name:

 


	
MTS OJSC
    
	
 
    
	
PSRN 1027700149124
    	
TIN 7740000076
    




 

Principal place of business:

 

4, Marksistskaya street, Moscow, 109147

 

2. The licensee shall begin communication service rendering in accordance with this license not later than April 01, 2013.

 

3. The licensee shall render communication services in accordance with this license only in residential place specified in clause 7 hereof.

 

4. The licensee shall provide the subscriber (customer) with the following services in accordance with this License*:

 

a) signal reception of television broadcasting program (programs) and (or) radio broadcasting from broadcasters;

 

b) broadcasting of program (programs) signals on the air;

 

c) free-of-charge broadcasting of mandatory public television channels and (or) radio channels, the list of which is determined by the legislation of the Russian Federation on mass media, if communication service activity for the purpose of air broadcasting is conducted on the basis of agreements with subscribers.

 

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

 

6. The licensee shall comply with the rules of communications network connection and interaction, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, when connecting the licensee’s air broadcasting network to the public communication network, connecting other communication networks to the licensee’s air broadcasting network.

 

7. The licensee shall perform conditions established upon setting aside radio frequency bands and assignment (awarding) of radio frequency or radio frequency channel in the process of service rendering in accordance with this license.

 

	
The territory of communication service 
   rendering
    	
 
    	
Frequency channel
   (TV channel)
    
	
Nizhny Novgorod
    	
 
    	
2,500-2,700   MHz;  
    not   more than 15 frequency channels
    


 

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8. Communication service rendering in accordance with this License is allowed only upon availability of the License (Licenses) to provide broadcasting and (or) upon availability of agreement (agreements) with licensee-broadcaster, except for cases specified in clause 9 hereof.

 

9. If communications services are provided for air broadcasting purposes on basis of agreement with a subscriber, the licensee shall perform broadcasting of mandatory public television channels and (or) radio channels, without any change at its own expense (without agreement conclusion with broadcasters of mandatory public television channels and (or) radio channels and without charge for reception and broadcasting of such channels from subscribers and broadcasters of mandatory public television channels and (or) radio channels) in exploited telecommunication networks.

 

10. 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 Authority in the sphere of telecommunications.

 




*                 Service rendering specified in this License may be followed by rendering other services technologically inextricably connected with communication service for the purposes of air broadcasting and focused on increase of consumption value thereof, if there is no necessity in the separate License.

**          This License is issued in accordance with renewal of License No. 109415 dated June 28, 2013.

 

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Numbered, bound and sealed 3 (three) page(s).

Head of Department, Maintenance of Registers of Radiofrequency Assignments and Telecommunications Licenses

 

	
/Signature/   I.Yu. Zavidnaya
    	
 
    
	
 
    
	
JUNE 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