At the general meeting on August 7 the shareholders of Ukrtelecom OJSC resolved to create an affiliated enterprise in Germany called Ukrtelglobal.

The Ukrainian mobile communication operator Astelit /ТМ life:)/ reduced dead loss in the second quarter of 2008 by 2.44 times to USD 18.7 million compared to the second quarter of 2007. This was reported by the press-service of the operator.

The Chinese supplier of communication equipment Huawei Technologies in the first half of 2008 supplied 800 thousand transceivers on GSM market - more than in the whole 2007. Half of all the supplies /400 thousand transceivers/ was accomplished in China and India.

A mobile operator UMC Company (TM MTS-Ukraine) set up cellular communication in 15 settlements in Ukraine.

At the meeting on August 7, the shareholders of Ukrtelecom OJSC reelected Georgiy Dzekon the President. This was reported by the press service of the company.

The President and founder of CNL telenetwork Maksim Maksimov conducted several fruitful meetings in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). After that his summer tour continued, and on August a he flew to the capital of Russia - Moscow, where he also held a number of important meetings, as reported by the CNL-NEWS news agency.

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