Kyivstar has connected another 514 Ukrainian settlements in 22 regions to the 4G network, the company has said.
The operator, in particular, extended communications to Bilozerske, Sviatohorsk, Ostrom (Donetsk region), Zolote (Luhansk region), as well as to hundreds of villages in the territory where more than 306,000 people live. 4G communications services in the Kyivstar network became available for more than 76% of the population of Ukraine.
According to the operator, in 2019 the volume of data traffic use increased by 54% compared to 2018, to 4,263 MB per subscriber. Moreover, more than 50% of all traffic was used in the 4G network.
As reported, Kyivstar in 2019 increased revenue by 19.6%, to UAH 22.392 billion, EBITDA by 39.4%, to UAH 14.683 billion. The number of mobile operator subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2019 decreased by 0.6% compared to the same period in 2018, to 26.2 million, while the number of fixed-line subscribers increased by 10.8%, to 1 million.
Kyivstar is the largest Ukrainian telecommunications operator. It provides communications and data transfer services based on a wide range of mobile and fixed technologies, including 3G. By the end of 2018, its services were used by about 26.4 million mobile subscribers and about 900,000 fixed Internet customers.
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