The mobile network operator Kyivstar in the fourth quarter of 2021 increased its total revenue by 12.5% year-over-year, to UAH 7.537 billion, according to the company’s website.
According to the published data, for the specified period, Kyivstar increased EBITDA by 8.7% compared to the same period last year, to UAH 4.839 billion. At the same time, the EBITDA margin fell by 2.3 percentage points (pp), to 64.2%.
Total operating income grew by 12.3%, to UAH 6.993 billion.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the use of mobile Internet per subscriber increased by an average of 20% compared to the same period in 2020, to 7.1 GB.
The use of international roaming services, in particular data transmission, also increased year-over-year. The number of Kyivstar subscribers using 4G services in its network grew by 30.5% compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, to 12.1 million.
The total number of Kyivstar mobile subscribers over the specified period rose by 1.2% compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, to 26.2 million subscribers.
Kyivstar fixed-line internet and TV revenues grew by 11.9% thanks to the 7.3% increase in the number of Home Internet service customers. The total number of clients of the Home Internet service in the fourth quarter of 2021 reached 1.2 million.
Kyivstar’s operating CAPEX in the fourth quarter of last year rose by 45.7%, to UAH 1.8 billion.
Kyivstar is the largest Ukrainian telecommunications operator. It provides communication and data transmission services based on a wide range of mobile and fixed-line technologies, including 3G. By the end of 2020, its services were used by about 25.9 million mobile subscribers and about 1.1 million fixed-line Internet customers.
Kyivstar’s shareholder is the international group VEON (formerly VimpelCom Ltd.). The group’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (New York).
