Communications in Ukraine

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Telephones - main lines in use: 10.84 million (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 20.1 million (08/2005)

Mobile Operators (as of August 2005)

Rank	Operator	Technology	Subscribers (in millions)	Ownership
1	Ukrainian Mobile Communications	GSM, NMT	14.8	MTS (100%)
2	Kyivstar	GSM	16.0	Telenor (56.51%), Alfa Group (43.49%)
3	Astelit life:)	GSM	3.9	Turkcell (54.2%), Rinat Akhmetov
4	Ukrainian RadioSystems	GSM	0.5	Optima-Telecom, PRIVAT Group
5	Golden Telecom	GSM	0.06	Golden Telecom Inc. (GLDN)
6	DCC	IS-136	0.04	Turkcell (54.2%), Rinat Akhmetov
-	CDMA operators	CDMA	0.1	ITC, Velton, etc.

Telephone system: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile cellular system. At independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone density is now rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate. Two new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and three Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries; additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems.

Radio broadcast stations: AM 134, FM 289, shortwave 4 (1998)

Radios: 45.05 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: at least 33 (plus 21 repeater stations that relay broadcasts from Russia) (1997)

Televisions: 18.05 million (1997)

Internet country code: .ua

Internet hosts: 94,345 (2004)

Internet users: 7 million (2005)

See also : Ukraine