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 Headquarters of Kyivstar | |
| Company type | Joint-stock company |
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| Industry | Mobile Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Kyiv,Ukraine |
Key people | Oleksandr Komarov — President Andrew Simmons — CFO[1] |
| Products | Cellular (2G:GSM, 3G:UMTS, 4G:LTE), Internet access (FTTB) |
| Revenue | ₴15.753 billion(2016)[2] |
| ₴4.229 billion(2016)[2] | |
| ₴3.410 billion(2016)[2] | |
| Total assets | 24,463,716,000 hryvnia (2020)  |
Number of employees | ~4 000 (2017) |
| Parent | VEON |
| Website | kyivstar.ua |
Kyivstar (Ukrainian:Київстар) is aUkrainiantelecommunications company, providing communication services and data transmission based on a broad range of fixed and mobile technologies, including4G (LTE) services, inUkraine. The Kyivstar mobile network covers all cities ofUkraine, as well as more than 28,000 rural settlements, all major national and regional routes, most sea, and river coasts. As of 2024, Kyivstar is the largestmobile operator and one of the largestbroadband Internet providers inUkraine, serving about 24 million mobile customers and more than 1 million fixed broadband internet customers ("Home Internet").[3]
PJSC Kyivstar was founded and registered inUkraine in 1994 and has been providing mobile services since 1997. The company's head office is located in Kyiv. Kyivstar is a part of the international telecom groupVEON.
In 2016, Kyivstar was one of 29 Ukrainian companies ranked by U.S. consulting groupDeloitte among the 500 largest companies in Central and Eastern Europe.[citation needed]
In 2020, Kyivstar became the most expensive brand in Ukraine according toKorrespondent magazine, and the best employer in Ukraine in the TOP-100 rating. It was also rated the largest Company of the Year in mobile communication. According to the results of 2020 and 2021 Kyivstar is the largest taxpayer in Ukraine among the companies in the field of communications and information.
Oleksandr Komarov has been the President of the company since December 2018.
From February 24, 2022, from the beginning of a new stage ofRussian military aggression against Ukraine, Kyivstar implemented a package of measures to support society and subscribers.[4] The company provided customers with free communication services, allocated UAH 15 million for charity and paid more than UAH 1 billion in taxes ahead of schedule.[citation needed]
For prepaid subscribers:
For contract subscribers and business clients:
For subscribers in roaming:
For Home Internet and Kyivstar TV customers:
Kyivstar actively supports the state and Ukrainian society, theArmed Forces of Ukraine:[10]
Kyivstar, in cooperation with theState Emergency Service of Ukraine, sent out more than 150 million SMS messages with vital information, in particular, about actions during an air raid alert, first aid, etc.[12]
In the first quarter of 2022, Kyivstar invested UAH 659 million in communication development. And thanks to the round-the-clock work of the company's specialists, 95% of the base stations of the telecom network work in normal mode.[13] During the war, the company built more than 100 new mobile communication facilities and connected 1,150 bomb shelters in various cities of Ukraine to the free Internet.[14]
Kyivstar, together with other mobile operators, theMinistry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, theState Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, theNational Commission for State Regulation in the Fields of Electronic Communications, Radio Frequency Spectrum and Postal Services, together with the Ukrainian Association of Telecom Operators "Telas", launched national roaming.[15]
On December 12, 2023, Kyivstar experienced a significant service outage, which its CEO, Oleksandr Komarov, attributed to a powerful Russian cyberattack. This attack, described as one of the largest against a civilian communications system, disrupted both phone and internet access for millions in Ukraine and involved efforts to destroy the company's virtual infrastructure.[16]
The company use six network codes: 67, 68, 77, 96, 97 and 98.[17]
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