The volume of sales of services by telecommunications and postal communications enterprises in Ukraine in January-June 2018 amounted to UAH 34.82 billion, which in absolute prices is higher than the level of H1 2017 by 11%, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
According to its data, the volume of services provided to the population amounted to UAH 20.6 billion, or 59.15% of the total volume of services sold, which is 13.4% up from the same period last year.
At the same time, in comparable prices compared to H1 2017 the volume of services sold as a whole increased by 2% and in terms of providing services to the population grew by 2.9%.
In particular, in absolute prices in H1 2018 the volume of sales of postal and courier services grew by 31%, to UAH 2.75 billion, of which services rendered to the population amounted to UAH 785 million, which is 27.2% up from the same period last year.
The volume of sales of mobile communications services in January-June 2018 grew by 7.4%, to UAH 18.25 billion, of which services provided to the public amounted to UAH 12.71 billion (14.56% up from the same period in 2016).
The volume of sales of Internet services in H1 2018 also rose by 17% and amounted to UAH 6.2 billion, of which the population was provided with services worth UAH 4.22 billion (19.8% up from H1 2017).
