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Russia’s MTS set to return to Turkmenistan

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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Russian mobile communications provider MTS said Monday that it will resume services in the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan at the end of August after 20 months offline.

Authorities suspended MTS subsidiary Barash Communication Technologies’ license in late 2010, leaving 2.4 million subscribers without service, and its return is expected to prove a boon to mobile phone and Internet users in the isolated ex-Soviet state.

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