PEOPLEnet is a telecommunications company in

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

founded in December 2006 by Telesystemy Ukrainy, becoming the first wireless network in Ukraine to offer 3G services (

1xEV-DO Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO, EVDO, etc.) is a telecommunications standard for the wireless transmission of data through radio signals, typically for broadband Internet access. EV-DO is an evolution of the CDMA2000 (IS-2000) standard which s ...

standard). By early 2009, the service was commercially available in every regional capital (''oblasnyi centr'') of Ukraine, as well as in a number of smaller cities. PEOPLENet is the first mobile operator in

to offer bundled airtime plans (when a monthly fee pays for a certain amount of voice minutes, text messages and data transfer) and flexible plans (a subscriber can modify his or her daily usage and service fee every day). On January 1, 2025 remaining CDMA2000 network was shut down.

Criticism

PEOPLEnet has been criticized for building "3G" hype more on marketing than on technology. As of April 2007, not all base stations actually had the possibility to work in the

mode, so that in fact a significant part of the network is actually an old

2.5G 2G refers to the second-generation of cellular network technology, which were rolled out globally starting in the early 1990s. The main differentiator to previous mobile telephone systems, retrospectively dubbed 1G, is that the radio signals of ...

CDMA2000 1x network that previously operated under another brand name. PEOPLEnet is also being unofficially accused of playing on the anticipation of launch of "full 3G" UMTS networks that would bring not only faster rates than 1X for data-only connections, but also principally new services like

video telephony Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video calling) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication. Today, videotelephony is widespread. There are many terms to refer to videotelephony. ''Videophones'' are ...

. PEOPLEnet used to hide the actual type of its technical standard ( CDMA2000 EV-DO) on their Web site, replacing it (even on pages with technical specifications of mobile terminals) with "3G", for example, writing "3G 1x" for phones that only support the 2.5G CDMA2000 1x technology.

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* Telecommunications companies established in 2006 Mobile phone companies of Ukraine Telecommunications companies of Ukraine Ukrainian companies established in 2006 {{telecom-company-stub