The volume of sales of services by telecommunications and postal communications enterprises in Ukraine in 2018 amounted to UAH 72.565 billion, which in absolute prices is higher than the level of 2017 by 10%, according to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
According to its data, the volume of services provided to the population amounted to UAH 42.9 billion, or 59.1% of the total volume of services sold, which is 12.9% up from last year.
At the same time, in comparable prices compared to 2017 the volume of services sold as a whole decreased by 0.4% and in terms of providing services to the population grew by 0.6%.
In particular, in absolute prices in 2018 the volume of sales of postal and courier services grew by 9.75%, to UAH 6.1 billion, of which services rendered to the population amounted to UAH 1.7 million, which is 27.5% up from last year.
The volume of sales of mobile communications services in 2018 grew by 9.4%, to UAH 38.5 billion, of which services provided to the public amounted to UAH 26.6 billion (13.49% up from 2017).
The volume of sales of Internet services in 2018 also rose by 13.5% and amounted to UAH 12.3 billion, of which the population was provided with services worth UAH 8.8 billion (18.9% up from 2017).