The Ukrainian affiliated branch of travel agency Tez Tour launched the service of virtual mobile operator TezGSM. The services of mobile subdivisions of TezGSM are first of all aimed at use abroad, so the company selected the appropriate tariff policy.

The plans of the Ukrainian Ministry of Transport and Communications to hold a competition of 3G licenses have been declared by the Minister Iosif Vinskiy.

The National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine may soon issue three licenses for satellite broadcasting to Vladimir Kmetik’s channels Malyatko-TV and Family-TV, and to the ecological satellite channel ECO-TV.

Ukrainian New Technology Company (Alternet TM) has announced the change of tariffs from September 1.

STB Broadcasting Company has launched a new Kuy-TB satellite action-channel, as the Economic News newspaper reports. According to the information from journalists, the channel will be focused on male audience, and the lion's share of its program net will be occupied by entertaining and informative not home-made programs.

The Russian Federation government is not preparing the privatization of Svyazinvest OJSC. This was reported to journalists by the Minister of communication and mass communications Igor Schegolev.

Cyprian System Capital Management Ltd., one of controlling companies of Systems Capital Management Holding (SCM, Donetsk) gave 99.88 % shares of Farlep Invest OJSC Company to Ucomline Holding Limited (Cyprus).

The volume of capital investments in the development of IT branch in Ukraine in the first half-year decreased by 16.7 % to UAH 55.4 million, as contrasted to the same period in 2007 (1 USD = UAH 4.85). This was reported by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.

The volume of capital investments in the development of communication branch in Ukraine in the first half-year decreased by 23 % to UAH 4.04 billion as contrasted to the same period of 2007 (1 USD = UAH 4.85). This was reported by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.

Mobile communication operator UMC (TM MTS-Ukraine) has launched the SMS2Voice service, as reported to proIT by the press-service of the company. The service allows the operator’s subscribers to send SMS to fixed-line phone numbers.

The incomes of Ukrainian communication operators in January- July 2008 increased by 19.5 % to UAH 26.155 billion (about USD 5.4 billion), contrasted to the same period of 2007. This was reported by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.

Two exhibitions have become the partners of ЕЕВС 2008 Telecom & Broadcasting - CCBN (China) and CONNECT (Pakistan), enabling each of the exhibitions to increase awareness among experts in these regions *** TELEODYN company (М1 and М2 Estrada channels) have become the sponsor of the Gala Night to be held on October 30, 2008 in the Allegro concert-hall during ЕЕВС 2008 *** Television Industry Committee has supported ЕЕВС 2008 *** What should be the strategies of operators to gain new subscribers? Can the tactic "from bonus to bonus" bring its results? One of the key participants of Round Table Discussion “Telecom operators: looking for alternative revenue sources” is Astelit,– TM life: )

ЕЕВС 2008 Telecom & Broadcasting exhibition organizers have presented to the participants of the 5th International symposium “Telecommunications without borders” a contrastive analysis of the activity of telecom operators and service providers in the three recent years in Ukraine.

The firm "Sky Master" from city of Vinnitsa will take part at exhibition ЕЕВС-2008 as the distributor of accessories for systems of satellite TV of all popular brands existing in Ukraine.

Alcatel and Top NET have joined the number of ЕЕВС 2008 participants *** The InAU( the Internet Association of Ukraine) and APITU (The Association of Information Technology Enterprises of Ukraine) will hold several round-table discussions on resolving a number of legal questions of the telecommunication sphere *** For the first time at the exhibition I MAKE TV project will be realized – live broadcasting of soccer matches will be performed with a state-of-art HD studio *** TECHEXPO Company invites all the visitors of this year IBC exhibition to meet on September 13 at 11-00 in the café of the recreation area of the RAI exhibition centre (Amsterdam) for the “Ukrainian get-together in Amsterdam” to have a cup of coffee talking over the impressions of the exhibition.

All-Ukrainian Cable Operators Congress will be held. within the framework of the 6-th Eastern Europe exhibition and conference EEBC 2008 Telecom&Broadcasting

For the first time EEBC 2008 is launching I Make TV project. A full-blown high definition TV studio to perform complete cycle of production, transmitting and delivery of TV content will be functioning at EEBC Telecom&Broadcasting.

The volume of capital investments of Ukrainian Mobile Communication CJSC in the second quarter of 2008 grew by 48 % to USD 209 million compared to USD 141 million in the second quarter of 2007, and made 38.3 % of the total volume of investments of MTS group of companies. This was reported by the press-service of UMC CJSC.

On August 12, Maksim Maksimov, the President of CNL, the largest Christian telenetwork, held a leadership seminar in Kyiv for priests and pastors on the subject: "Television service". There he spoke about how to make the first steps on television, how to create good programs with small budget and how to achieve success in television branch, CNL-NEWS news agency reports.

From August 7 to 10 in Sevastopol the conference of CNL TV-channel was held, as CNL-NEWS news agency reports.