subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 36.78 (2019 est.)
total subscriptions: 4,182,994
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 9.52 (2019 est.)
Telephones - mobile cellular
total subscriptions: 529,497,242
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 117.70 (2019 est.)
total subscriptions: 54,842,940
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 124.78 (2019 est.)
Internet country code
.eu; note - see country entries of member states for individual country codes
.ua
Internet users
total: 398.1 million (2018 est.)
percent of population: 85%
total: 25,883,509
percent of population: 58.89% (July 2018 est.)
Telecommunication systems
note - see individual country entries of member states
general assessment:
Ukraine's telecom market continues to face challenges resulting from the annexation of Crimea by Russia and unrest in eastern regions; developing telecom market has attracted international investors from Russia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan; government plan emphasizes improvement of domestic trunk lines, international connections, and a national mobile-cellular system; operators moving from 3G services to 4G, but some areas still use 2G; LTE services available in cities; FttP networks taking over DSL platforms; government approved plan in 2020 for 5G migration and operator is developing IoT capabilities; improvement of licensing requirements for operators and positive reforms for users; importer of broadcasting equipment from China (2021)
(2020)
domestic: fixed-line teledensity is 10 per 100; the mobile-cellular telephone system's expansion has slowed, largely due to saturation of the market that is now 131 mobile phones per 100 persons (2019)
international: country code - 380; landing point for the Kerch Strait Cable connecting Ukraine to Russia; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic TAE system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic TEL project that connects 18 countries; additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by an unknown number of earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems
note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced downturn, particularly in mobile device production; many network operators delayed upgrades to infrastructure; progress towards 5G implementation was postponed or slowed in some countries; consumer spending on telecom services and devices was affected by large-scale job losses and the consequent restriction on disposable incomes; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home became evident, and received some support from governments
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
total: 158,303,562
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 35.19 (2019 est.)
total: 6,784,185
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 15.44 (2019 est.)
