Telephones - main lines in use: 12.34 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 49.1 million (2006)
Mobile Operators (as of March 2008)
| Rank | Operator | Technology | Subscribers |
Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyivstar | GSM | 23 | Telenor (56.51%), Alfa Group (43.49%) |
| 2 | MTS | GSM, CDMA | 19 | MTS (100%) |
| 3 | life:) | GSM | 9 | Turkcell (54.2%), SCM Holdings (45.8%) |
| 4 | Beeline | GSM | 2 | VimpelCom |
| 5 | Utel | UMTS | 0.3 | Ukrtelecom |
| 6 | PEOPLEnet | CDMA | 0.3 | Telesystems of Ukraine |
| 7 | Intertelecom | CDMA | 0.3 | Intertelecom company |
| 8 | CDMA Ukraine | CDMA | 0.3 | International Telecommunication Company (ITC) |
| 9 | Velton | CDMA | ? | Velton Telecom |
| 10 | Golden Telecom | GSM | 0.05 | Golden Telecom Inc. (GLDN) |
Telephone system: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile cellular system. At independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone density is now rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate. Two new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and three Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries; additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems.
Radio broadcast stations: 524, station types not available (2006)
Radios: 45.05 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 647 (plus 21 repeater stations that relay broadcasts from Russia) (2006)
Televisions: 18.05 million (1997)
Internet country code: .ua
Internet hosts: 234,349 (2007)
Internet users: 7 million (2005)
- See also : Ukraine
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