Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...
s is one of the most modern, diverse and fast-growing sectors in the
economy
An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...
of
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. Unlike country's dominating
export
An export in international trade is a good produced in one country that is sold into another country or a service provided in one country for a national or resident of another country. The seller of such goods or the service provider is an ...
industries, the telecommunications, as well as the related
Internet sector, remain largely unaffected by the
global economic crisis, ranking high in
Europe
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an and global rankings.
The industry also leads in
demonopolization of Ukraine's economy as
Ukrtelekom (once the country's sole telephone provider) was successfully
privatized
Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...
, and is now losing its
retail
Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and ...
market share to independent, foreign-invested private providers.
The entire population of Ukraine now has
telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...
and/or
mobile phone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whi ...
connection;
Internet access is universally available in cities and main transport corridors, expanding into smaller settlements.
Ukraine's telecommunication development plan emphasizes further improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile cellular system.
International data network
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
The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications, commonly known as Intersputnik, is an international satellite communications services organization founded on 15 November 1971, in Moscow by the Soviet Union along with a group of ...
satellite systems.
Fixed telephone network
Telephone
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...
s - land lines in use: 12.681 million (2011)
Upon gaining independence from the USSR in 1991, Ukraine inherited an analog PSTN telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in many places in disrepair; meanwhile demand overwhelmed the supply with more than 3.5 million households applications for telephone lines pending. Telephone density has since risen and the domestic trunk system is being improved; about one-third of Ukraine's networks are digital, and the majority of regional centers now have digital switching stations. Improvements in local networks and local exchanges continue to lag.
Several independent fixed network providers established themselves on the country's retail market, although Ukrtelecom still dominates it.
Mobile phone networks
Market penetration
The mobile cellular telephone system's expansion has slowed, largely due to the saturation of the market, which has reached 125 mobile phones per 100 people.
Telephones - mobile cellular: 55.578 million (2011)
Mobile phone networks
Mobile phone manufacturers
The following companies in Ukraine are manufacturing mobile phones:
* Borton
* Impression Electronics
Radio broadcast stations
300 (2007)
Ukrainian Amateur Radio League
Internet in Ukraine
*country code -
.ua
.ua is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Ukraine. To register at the second-level (example) domainname.ua, possession of the exact trademark (matching the domain name) is required. It is not required for third-level domain ...
*Internet hosts: 2.173 million (2012)
*Internet users: 41,8 million (2013)
Telecommunications-related government bodies
*
Ministry of Infrastructure of UkraineOfficial website)
*
State Special Communications Service of Ukraine
The State Special Communications Service of Ukraine (SSSCIP, uk, Державна служба спеціального зв'язку та захисту інформації України, Derzhavna sluzhba spetsial'nogo zv'iaku ta zakhistu in ...
Official website
*National Commission for the State Regulation of Communications and Informatization of Ukraine
Official website
See also
*
Internet in Ukraine
The Internet in Ukraine is well developed and steadily growing, mostly uninfluenced by the global financial crisis; in April 2012 rapid growth was forecast for at least two more years. , Ukraine was ranked 9th in the "Top 10 Internet countries in ...
*
Mobile phone industry in Ukraine
Notes
References
External links
Industry-specific media
*
Watcher:' - Ukrainian Internet business and marketing
online newspaper
*
ProIT' - Ukrainian IT industry online newspaper
*
AIN' - Ukrainian IT industry online newspaper
Other
CIA World Factbook
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Internet in Ukraine
Information technology in Ukraine