Ukraine's telecom sector settles on back-office dealings to jolt the market
Despite the Ukraine government announcing grand plans in November 2020 to enable the commercial launch of 5G mobile services by the end of 2021 (including a spectrum auction slated for October), there has been remarkably little evidence of any progress being made towards putting those plans into action. That includes near-radio silence on the details of the supposed forthcoming tender. Growth in the mobile sector is likely to remain stagnant for more time to come, while the market waits for the regulator and the three dominant MNOs to crawl towards making faster and more powerful services available for public consumption.Most of the action with Ukraine's telecom market has instead taken place behind the lines, with a range of M&A activity resulting in more consolidation or, in the case of Vodafone Ukraine, a role-reversal.
First up was telecommunications service provider Datagroup, which completed its acquisition of cableco Volia in June 2021. The combined entity now operates one of the largest fibre networks in the country, with a reach of more than four million households. Then in August 2021, Vodafone Ukraine reversed its position from 2015 when it had sold its fixed internet and fixed telephony operations in Odessa and Kyiv to Vega. The mobile operator instead acquired 99.9% of Vega, as well as the cableco Cable TV-Finance. In doing so, Vodafone Ukraine broadcast a clear intention to become a quadruple-play provider rather than solely one of the country's three major MNOs.
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Table of Contents
- Key statistics
- Country overview
- COVID-19 and its impact on the telecom sector
- Economic considerations and responses
- Subscribers
- Infrastructure
- Telecommunications market
- Historical overview
- Market analysis
- Abraham Accords Peace Agreement
- Regulatory environment
- Historic overview
- Regulatory authority
- Royalty payments
- Censorship
- VoIP
- Fixed line developments
- Telecom sector liberalisation
- Interconnect and access
- Fibre access
- Mobile market developments
- Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- Roaming tariff reduction
- SIM card registration
- Mobile market
- Market analysis
- Mobile statistics
- Mobile infrastructure
- 5G
- LTE
- GSM, 3G
- Mobile broadband
- Major mobile operators
- Etisalat
- du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company)
- MVNOs
- Mobile content and applications
- M-commerce
- M-payments
- Fixed broadband market
- Introduction and statistical overview
- Market analysis
- Broadband statistics
- Fibre-to-the-Premises (FttP) networks
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) networks
- Other fixed broadband services
- Fixed wireless (Wi-Fi, WiMAX)
- Fixed network operators
- Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat)
- Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company/du
- Yahsat
- Telecommunications infrastructure
- Overview of the national telecom network
- International infrastructure
- Submarine cable networks
- Terrestrial cable networks
- Satellites
- Smart infrastructure
- Smart cities
- Connected homes
- Data centres, cloud computing
- Smart grids
- Appendix - Historic Data
- Glossary of abbreviations
- Related reports
List of Tables
List of Charts
List of Exhibits
Companies Mentioned
- Ukrtelecom
- Kyivstar
- Vodafone Ukraine
- Lifecell
- Intertelecom
- Datagroup
- Eurotranstelecom
- Vega
- Volia Cable
- TriMob
- Triolan
- PEOPLEnet.
