Kyivstar

Kyivstar is Ukraine's largest electronic communications operator. Founded in 1994, the company runs mobile, fixed internet and digital TV services for 23.3 million mobile subscribers and more than 1.1 million Home Internet customers as of Q2 2025. It operates the country's largest communications infrastructure: over 70,700 base stations and a fibre-optic network exceeding 44,000 km with 16 Tbps capacity. The company is part of the international telecom group VEON and operates in Ukraine.

Engineering work at Kyivstar spans mobile networks including 4G LTE, fibre-optic networking, Big Data analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and digital TV and streaming platforms. The company introduced the first SMS service in Ukraine in 1998 and the first mobile internet via WAP in 2000. Alongside core connectivity, it offers Big Data analytics, cloud computing and cybersecurity services to customers, and runs Kyivstar TV, a platform with over 430 TV channels and more than 20,000 video titles.

The company has invested nearly $6 billion in telecom infrastructure to date and plans a further $1 billion between 2023 and 2027. It ranks among Ukraine's top 20 largest taxpayers. During the war it provided free services and contributed over 130 million hryvnias to the Armed Forces, hospitals and war victims.