Kyivstar
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| legal form | Joint stock company (Ukrainian Приватне акціонерне товариство ( ПрАТ )) |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat | Kiev |
| management | Oleksandr Komarov (Ukrainian Олександр Комаров ) - CEO |
| Number of employees | 4500 |
| sales | 12.332 billion UAH in 2012 |
| Branch | Cellular , Internet Service Provider |
| Website | www.kyivstar.ua |
Kyivstar ( Ukrainian Київстар ) is the largest mobile operator in Ukraine with almost 25.9 million customers (as of 3rd quarter 2013) and has 700,000 Internet customers (as of 2nd quarter 2013). The company reaches 99% of the Ukrainian population and offers its services under the brands Kyivstar, Kyivstar Business (business customers) and Djuice (young people). The main competitors in the Ukrainian cellular market are Vodafone Ukraine and lifecell Ukraine . Kyivstar is one of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine in its industry.
Company history
The company was founded in 1994 and on December 9, 1997, the first phone call was made on the Kyivstar network. In the same year, four regional centers were opened in the major Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv , Dnipro , Lviv and Odessa . In 1999, Kyivstar opened a branch in the Crimea . In 2001 Kyivstar already had over a million mobile phone customers and rose to become the market leader. In 2002 a pan-European roaming network was set up. In August 2005 the number of mobile phone customers exceeded 10 million. The number of customers doubled from August 2005 to 2007 to 20 million. Kyivstar has also been an Internet service provider since 2010, offering fiber optic Internet access .
Economic indicators
The profit in 2012 amounted to 4.267 billion UAH at the same time the balance sheet total was 11.317 billion UAH .
Ownership
Kyivstar is a subsidiary of VimpelCom a joint venture of the Letter One (formerly of Altimo , the telecommunications company of the Russian Alfa Group ) of the oligarch Mikhail Fridman and the Norwegian Telenor . The ownership structure of VimpelCom is as follows:
| Share (voting rights) * | Shareholders |
| 47.9% | Letter One 1 |
| 43% | Telenor |
| 9.2% | Free float |
Source:
* According to this information, the total number of votes is 100.1%.
1 Investment company of the Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Kyivstar - About us. In: Kyivstar. kyivstar.ua, accessed October 12, 2014 (English, Russian, unknown language, Ukrainian).
- ↑ a b c d e f Kyivstar - History. (No longer available online.) In: Kyivstar. kyivstar.ua, archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; Retrieved October 12, 2014 (English, Russian, unknown language, Ukrainian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Kyivstar - Annual Report 2012. (PDF (6.32 MB)) (No longer available online.) In: Kyivstar. October 22, 2013, pp. 54ff , archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; accessed on October 12, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Количество абонентов "Киевстара" в 2013 г. увеличилось на 3% до 25.8 млн. In: RBC Ukraine (news agency, Ukrainian РБК Украина ). March 6, 2014, accessed October 12, 2014 (Russian).
- ↑ VimpelCom Ltd. Ownership Structure. In: VimpelCom . Retrieved October 12, 2014 (Russian).
- ↑ RWE gives Dea contract to Russian oligarchs. In: Handelsblatt . March 16, 2014, accessed on October 12, 2014 : "The Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman is paying 5.1 billion euros through his investment company Letter One."
