centers with its UMTS (3G) standard network by the end of 2015, CEO Oleh Prozhyvalsky told reporters on Wednesday.
At present, the operator’s network has been launched in three regional centers – Odesa, Chernivtsi and Uzhgorod.
Prozhyvalsky said that by the end of the year the network will appear in Kyiv, Lviv (December 7), Dnipropetrovsk (December 15), Khmelnytsky (December 24), Ternopil (December 24), Sumy (December 10), Poltava (December 9), Ivano-Frankivsk (December 11), Rivne (December 23), Vinnytsia (December 24), Kherson (December 11), Chernihiv (November 30), Kirovohrad (December 14), Lutsk (November 30) and Mykolaiv (December 8).
Vodafone Ukraine Technical Director Andriy Tereschuk said that the 3G network in Kyiv will be launched using the cluster principle (district by district) in five stages. The first stage will start at night on November 26 in the Solomiansky district. The next stages will be on December 4, December 15, December 25 and December 30.