Kazakhtelecom (Kazakhstan) provides KASE with extract from share register as on October 1, 2008

/KASE, October 9, 08/ - Kazakhtelecom (Astana), shares of which are traded in the official list of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) of the first category, provided KASE with an extract from the share register as on October 1, 2008. The registrar of the company is REESTR-SERVICE (Almaty). According to the extract as on October 1, 2008 the total of authorized common shares KZ1C12280417 of Kazakhtelecom made up 10,922,876 items, and 1,213,653 preferred shares KZ1P12280412. All shares were offered, 810,459 preferred shares were repurchase by the issuer. As on the indicated date Central Securities Depository (Almaty) nominally held 8,753,105 common shares and 176,401 preferred shares (78.84 % of the total of outstanding shares.) According to the registrar with account to the data of Central Securities Depository the following holders owned five or more percent of outstanding shares as on the indicated date: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stake of Common outstanding Stake of voting Name shares shares, % shares, %* ----------------------------------- --------- ----------- --------------- Kazakhstan holding for state assets management Samruk (Astana) 5,570,668 49.18* 51.00 BODAM B.V. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 1,842,725 16.27 16.87 Kazkommertsbank 807,228 7.13* 7.39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * calculated by KASE specialists According to Central Securities Depository its accounting system does not provide information on owners of 1,692,479 common shares of Kazakhtelecom. [2008-10-09]