Subscribers of the Kyivstar mobile operator with the “Roaming like at home” tariff used 5.256 GB of mobile Internet on average in July and called in roaming for 191 minutes, the company said in a press release.
According to its data, customers of the standard roaming tariff download an average of 201 MB of data per month and talk for 9 minutes, which is 26 and 21 times less than the indicators of the “Roaming like at home” tariff, respectively.
Kyivstar clarified that in general, during the three months of providing the “Roaming like at home” service, the company’s subscribers used almost 32 million GB of mobile Internet and talked at this rate for about 117 million minutes.
As reported earlier, the operators of Ukraine and the EU signed a joint declaration on coordinated efforts to ensure and stabilize affordable or free roaming and international calls between the EU and Ukraine. Kyivstar plans to maintain this service at least until the end of this year.
As Kyivstar President Alexander Komarov recently pointed out in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine, in July the company had about 1.3-1.4 million customers in roaming, and 80-90% used the “Roaming like at home” service, which provided in 30 countries around the world.
Kyivstar in the II quarter of 2022 reduced EBITDA by 4.8% with revenue growth of 3.9% (in dollars – by 2%) compared to the same period in 2021 – to UAH 7.37 billion.
Kyivstar is the largest Ukrainian telecommunications operator. Provides communication and data transmission services based on a wide range of mobile and fixed technologies, including 3G. As of the middle of this year, its services were used by about 24.8 million mobile subscribers and over 1 million fixed Internet customers.
Kyivstar’s shareholder is the international group VEON (formerly VimpelCom Ltd.). The group’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ (New York) stock exchange.
The Ukrainian government intends to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) agreement on the coordination of interstate relations in postal and electric communications services, which was signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on October 9, 1992.
This issue has been included on the agenda of the government’s meeting on February 17.
In this document, the parties agreed to coordinate steps to provide communications services, harmonize the development of communications networks and systems, draw up a concept for research and technology policy and tariff policy, train personnel and coordinate the operations of educational establishments in the field of communications, and protect the common interests of the states within international communications organizations and their bodies.
However, as Kyiv believes, the agreement has not been implemented with regard to Ukraine since it was signed. Furthermore, the Ukrainian government has said, withdrawal from the accord will not impact the interests of Ukrainian citizens.
It was reported in August 2020 that the Ukrainian government had decided to pull out of seven international treaties signed within the CIS between 1993 and 2001.
Specifically, the Ukrainian government asked the country’s Foreign Ministry to notify the CIS Executive Committee of Kyiv’s withdrawal from the decision to establish the Radio Navigation interstate consultative council (January 22, 1993, Minsk), the agreement on long-range radio navigation support in the CIS (March 12, 1993, Moscow), the agreement on the practical use of the provisions of Article 83 bis of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (December 9, 1994, Moscow), the agreement on cooperation in organizing and providing search and rescue support during flights of civil aircraft (December 9, 1994, Moscow), and the agreement on cooperation and protection of civil aviation from acts of illegal interference (May 26, 1995, Moscow).
