On the basis of CNL television channel, on August 5 in Kyiv a Summer Christian Video School was open for people interested in learning to create teleprograms, as reported by the CNL-NEWS news agency. The first group made 30 people. These are the people from different regions of Ukraine, as well as from Russia and Latvia.

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The management of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine is going to offer its variant of providing low income people with indoor digital-analog signal decoders or Set-Top Boxes

A mobile operator Astelit company (ТМ life:)) together with a telecom company Ukrtelecom have launched the service life:) on-line

Uzbek cell operator Unitel LLC /the affiliate of Vympelcom OJSC (VIMP)/, working with GSM-900-1800 standard, by the end of 2008 is going to launch 3G network in Uzbekistan, as was reported by Director General of Unitel Igor Pilyugin

3G communication CDMA operator Telesystems of Ukraine (ТМ PeopleNet) put a network into operation in Kherson. This is reported by the Company press-service. The 3G network is based on the Nortel equipment

The Ukrainian operators of all property categories in the first half year of 2008 built about 1 200 km fiber-optic communication lines. This was reported by the pres-service of the State Department of Communication and Informatization

According to iKS-Consulting research, the Ukrainian broadband Internet access service market is growing steadily in 2008. The 1st Q of 2008 was marked by a significant fact: by the end of March the number of broadband Internet users exceeded a million, comprising 1.05 million

According to the information of the State Department of Communication and Informatization, the number of the Internet audience in Ukraine comprises 10 million people

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The consolidated number of subscribers of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC /MTS/ in June grew by 0.7 % compared to May to 86.94 million people. This is reported by the Company. In June 2008 MTS consolidated subscribers base increased by 0.64 million people

The number of cell communication users in Russia in June 2008 increased, compared to May, by 2 million to 172.95 million subscribers. This is reported by the analytical company AC&M Consulting. The index of penetration of cell communication in Russia /the number of SIM-cards per 100 people/ in June 2008 has grown to 119.1 %. In Moscow the number of cell communication subscribers in June increased to 28.972 million people compared to 28.689 million in the previous month

The number of cell communication subscribers in Ukraine by the end of June 2008 made up 55.177 million users /SIM-cards/, increasing in a month by 0.07 million people. This is reported by the analytical company AC&M Consulting. The penetration of cell communication in Ukraine by the end of June constituted 119.3 % comparing to 119 % in May

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has allowed P6 Ukraine Cable Ltd (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) to buy 25% of shares of Volia LIMITED (Limasol, Cyprus), as reported by the AMCU press service

Ukrtelecom OJSC has launched a trial mode of Triple Play service, according to the “Kompyuternoye obozreniye” (“Computer Review”). According to the Deputy Chairman of the Board responsible for marketing and sale of services, the member of the Board of directors of Ukrtelecom Igor Sirotenko, the company is getting ready for commercial launching of Triple Play service this year and expects it to be a success

Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeals allowed the appeal of the National Communication Regulation Committee (NCRC) to the District Administrative Court decision on licensing Kyivstar GSM for use 2.1 GHz for 3G mobile communication beyond bidding

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a new procedure of calculating license fees, which made license price multiply up many times

On July 15, 2008, Beltelecom, the State communication operator, is launching a trial mode of IPTV service in Minsk. This was announced by the press service of Beltelecom. Commercial launch is planned for August 14, 2008