Investments by Ukraine’s largest mobile operator Kyivstar in alternative power supply exceeded UAH 350 million, the company said on Tuesday.
According to the report, the company increased by 75% the number of generators for alternative power supply of base stations, as well as installed more than 18 thousand batteries of a new type with a longer service life.
The release also says that since February 2022 Kyivstar’s specialists have renewed more than 7 thousand base stations and built 700 new base stations for 4G network operation, due to which the territory of the company’s 4G network operation has increased by 6-20% depending on the region.
The operator recalled that during the war about 18% of base stations of the company’s mobile communications were significantly damaged, but thanks to early backup of additional communication channels, the transfer of nodal base stations to the remote from the frontline cities, almost 90% of Kyivstar telecom network is now in working order.
According to the report, since the beginning of the war, Kyivstar specialists restored 600 base stations, replaced 1.2 thousand km of damaged fibre-optic cable, eliminated 140 thousand emergency situations on the infrastructure and returned mobile communications to 815 settlements.
As reported, in early January 2023 Kyivstar announced its plans to increase the number of stationary and mobile diesel generators at other sites of the network by 40% to 14 MW.
Earlier, in December 2022 Yurii Matsyk, director of the department of fixed-line Internet development of the Ministry of Ukraine, noted that only 7% of 32 thousand mobile stations are equipped with generators and 93% – with accumulators. According to him, generators with a capacity of 20-30 kW are needed for the communication node, where there is traffic switching. For the base station – 6-8 kW.
