The study consisted of 4 experimental periods: screening, baseline/MTS initiation, MTS adjustment, and MTS maintenance.
Moreover, each cell has K MTs such that there are M = NK MTs (users) in the entire system.
MTS assay involves the biological reduction by viable cells of the tetrazolium compound (MTS).
The bank declined to comment, as did MTS.
Sistema controls Russia's largest mobile phone operator, MTS, the oil company Bashneft and other lucrative assets.
It was not clear today how much information about MTS customers had gotten loose.
(Note: The price MTS paid per subscriber was significantly above the market rate.
The Russian companies MTS, VimpelCom, and Alfa Telecom also deny any wrongdoing.
Sistema also controls MTS, a mobile network operating in Russia and many post-Soviet nations.
Both sides submitted what were to have been final offers on May 2, but the MTS board asked the bidders to revise their offers, using the model of the eSpeed bid, which proposed buying just 51percentt of MTS.
