The mobile operator Vodafone Ukraine plans to expand its frequency portfolio in 2022, CEO of Vodafone Ukraine Olha Ustynova has said.
“Given the constant organic growth of traffic, we plan to expand our frequency portfolio as much as possible. We expect that additional frequencies will enable us to provide the transmission of traffic that is growing [by 17-18% quarterly],” she said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Ustynova also stressed that the operator’s priority for 2022 is the fulfillment of licensing conditions for covering 90% of the population and cities with 2,000 inhabitants and more with 4G technologies.
“We must complete this stage in June. We have been building very actively last year. If last year our 4G coverage geography had 68%, then by the end of 2021 we will reach 83% of the population. In order to fulfill our obligations on coverage figures, we are left with a few percentages, while they are the most labor-intensive,” the CEO of Vodafone Ukraine said.
According to her, the operator has practically completed coverage of cities with a population of 2,000 or more residents – only isolated cases remain. “To reach the indicator of 90% of the population, we have to cover many small villages, each of which brings us one tenth of a percent closer to the target figure. The plans for the next year also include active construction on the roads of national importance,” Ustynova said.
Another big project of Vodafone Ukraine for 2022 will be to improve coverage in new buildings in Kyiv.
Vodafone Ukraine is the second largest mobile operator in Ukraine.
