Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, will build 170 and upgrade more than 1,000 base stations in the first quarter of 2023, this work is largely due to significant migration to cities and villages in the west of the country, company president Alexander Komarov said in Facebook on Tuesday.
“The level of availability of the network “Kyivstar” in the free territory of Ukraine is more than 99%. This corresponds to the level until February 24, 2022. Nevertheless, there are difficulties in maintaining this quality of communication, the solution of which we are actively working on, “- said the head of the company.
According to him, from time to time the company has difficulties with maintaining an appropriate level of network availability because of bad weather and related warning blackouts, and sometimes the difficulties are caused by security issues, irresponsible attitude of landlords and problems getting access to the network.
Komarov pointed out that Kyivstar does not reduce the rate of battery replacement and connection of new generators, bringing the total number of the latter to about 1,900, as the threat of blackouts remains, and the current improved situation with power supply is a seasonal phenomenon associated with the successful actions of the air defense and a surplus in generation.
The head of the company also said that in the Kharkiv and decouped territories of the Kherson region, grid restoration work is in its final stage.
As reported, in 2022 Kyivstar built 659 new base stations, which roughly corresponds to the level of 2021. In total, the company has about 14 thousand base stations and other network facilities.
Komarov said at Business Wisdom Summit on March 15 that Kyivstar installed 1,790 generators, of which 700 were provided by the business on crowdfunding terms. Their total capacity reached 40 MW.
