lifecell (formerly life:)) is a Ukrainian

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company based in

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. It is the third largest Ukrainian mobile telephone network operator, (after

Kyivstar Kyivstar () is a Ukrainian telecommunications company, providing communication services and data transmission based on a broad range of fixed and mobile technologies, including 4G (LTE) services, in Ukraine. The Kyivstar mobile network covers a ...

and Vodafone Ukraine) covering 98.82% of Ukrainian inhabited territory. DVL Telecom is the parent company of Lifecell. Lifecell's dialing prefixes are +38063, +38093 and +38073. As of the end of Q3 of 2014, Ukrainian

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operator life:) serves 13.6 million subscribers of prepaid, contract and corporate subscription. Company provides roaming opportunities in 184 countries via more than 456 roaming partners. The operator was the first mobile network operator in Ukraine to introduce EDGE technology that offers high speed data transfer. Now the technology is enabled in 100% life:) network. As of today, six lifecell customer service centers and 193 exclusive shops operate in 103 cities of Ukraine. In addition, life:) subscribers can order life:) services through 153 branded points of sale and 49 487 GSM and non-GSM sales points throughout Ukraine.

History

In January 2005, Astelit launched GSM-1800 service under the life:)

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, and has attracted 7.6 million contract and prepaid subscribers by December 2007. In June 2011, it was reported that Russian conglomerate

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was negotiating a deal to purchase the 45% share in Astelit. In July 2015, Turkcell completed the acquisition of a 44.96% stake in the company owned by Rinat Akhmetov's SCM Holdings. In 2017, the company ended its operations in Ukraine's russian-occupied territories

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and

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

. In 2018, the operator received licenses for 4G LTE in the ranges of 2600 MHz and 1800 MHz. On March 30, 2018, lifecell launched LTE Advanced Pro standard in about 20 cities of Ukraine. First and foremost, Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Dnipro. The company launched its 4G network on 1 July 2018. It is planned that by the end of 2018 the new standard will be available in 1500 cities, covering up to 50% of the total population of Ukraine. In January 2025, dual stack IPv6/IPv4 network was made available to mobile customers.

Corporate social responsibility

In 2007, lifecell joined the UN Global Compact, as an initiative to encourage CSR (

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) practices by example including the 10 basic principles of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection and anti-corruption measures.

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