“Ukrtelecom, Ukraine’s largest fixed-line operator, laid almost 11,000 km of optical lines in 2022-2023, the company’s press service said on Friday.
“During the full-scale war, Ukrtelecom built almost 11 thousand kilometers of optical lines. During this time, the company has provided hundreds of thousands more households in all regions of the country with the opportunity to use modern services,” the statement said.
Most fiber-optic lines were laid in Odesa, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Lviv, and Dnipro regions.
The optical infrastructure is being expanded by laying new lines, replacing old copper networks with fiber optics, and restoring the network in the de-occupied territories, the company said.
“Despite the challenging operating environment, Ukrtelecom continues to provide Ukrainians with access to high-speed optical internet. The company, in line with its pre-war strategy, has decided to continue ambitious projects to build optical networks across the country and optical modernization of copper infrastructure,” the company’s press service quoted Ukrtelecom CEO Yuriy Kurmaz as saying.
He emphasized that uninterrupted high-quality Internet is critical as it allows citizens to instantly receive information about the security situation, increases the sustainability of business, and serves as the basis for the sustainability of educational processes and continuous interaction between government agencies.
“In 2024, Ukrtelecom will continue to build a modern optical network by investing in the development of GPON, a non-volatile Internet technology, Kurmaz added.
Ukrtelecom said that in 2023, more than 150 medical and 185 educational institutions connected to the company’s optical infrastructure. The company has access to high-speed optical Internet in 1.25 thousand medical and 1.7 thousand educational institutions.
The settlements where the operator is building fiber-optic networks can access the Internet at speeds of up to 1 Gbps, which in turn allows them to use the full potential of digital services in the public and private sectors, the telecom operator’s press service said.
IP-based services, including interactive TV in HD and 4K quality, video conferencing and Internet telephony, have become available to the public, the company said.
“Ukrtelecom is the largest fixed-line operator in Ukraine. A large part of its customers are government agencies, educational, administrative and medical institutions, and emergency services. The company is a provider of high-speed fixed-line Internet with the widest coverage. Ukrtelecom’s Internet access is available in almost 4,000 settlements across the country and is available in 90% of them. Ukrtelecom is also the sole shareholder and founder of TriMob LLC, a provider of UMTS/WCDMA mobile services.
In 2013, the company joined SCM’s business.
