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KYIVSTAR’S SHAREHOLDER VEON LAUNCHES NEW FREE MESSENGER IN UKRAINE

20 July , 2017  

KYIV. July 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – VEON Ltd. international group (earlier VimpelCom), the global provider of telecom services, on July 19 launched the VEON personified Internet platform for communications on the Ukrainian, Italian, Pakistani, Russian and Georgian markets, Kyivstar mobile communications operator has said on its website.
“VEON is a global digital platform uniting all modern Internet communications technologies, content services and entertainment, making them affordable for clients of any mobile communications operators in one application,” the operator said.
Using the platform one can publish photo, video and audio messages and share your location.
The press service of Kyivstar told Interfax-Ukraine that clients of all Ukrainian mobile operators will be able to use the application.
“Subscribers of companies, which are part of VEON Group, including Kyivstar, will have additional advantages. Using the VEON platform, they can communicate, send messages without paying for internet traffic and even if they have no money on their accounts,” the company said.
Kyivstar said that in the near term VEON would be expanded with financial services.
Now the application is available for Android, and it will be launched for iOS in the near term.