Ukraine: Communication#
Telephones - fixed lines | total subscriptions: 9,113,061 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 21 (July 2015 est.) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular | total: 60.72 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 137 (July 2015 est.) |
Telephone system | general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile-cellular system domestic: the country's former sole telephone provider, Ukrtelekom, was successfully privatized 2011 and independent foreign-invested private companies now provide substantial telecommunications services; the mobile-cellular telephone system's expansion has slowed, international: country code - 380; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries; additional internationa (2015) |
Broadcast media | state-controlled nationwide TV broadcast channel (UT1) and a number of privately owned TV networks provide basic TV coverage; multi-channel cable and satellite TV services are available; Russian television broadcasts have a small audience nationwide, but (2007) |
Internet country code | .ua |
Internet users | total: 21.886 million percent of population: 49.3% (July 2015 est.) |