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Due to the large-scale failure of Kyivstar, other “non-standard” problems arose in Ukrainian cities

  • December 12, 2023
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There were problems especially with street lighting. Regional administrations in Lviv, Sumy and Zaporizhia have already provided information about them. There are also problems with payment of fees

Due to the large-scale failure of Kyivstar, other “non-standard” problems arose in Ukrainian cities

There were problems especially with street lighting. Regional administrations in Lviv, Sumy and Zaporizhia have already provided information about them. There are also problems with payment of fees and the functioning of “hotlines”.

In particular, LKP “Lvivsvitlo” reported that all street lighting lines were manually turned off due to a technical malfunction in the Kyivstar mobile operator. The city hall has already described the situation as “non-standard”.

“Therefore, the duration of street lighting and emergency works may be extended. We apologize for the inconvenience caused,” Lvivsvitlo said. said.

Night lighting was not turned off in Lviv / Photo from Ihor Zinkevich’s telegram

Lviv City Council also reported that due to a large-scale failure in the work of Kyivstar, the public transport tracking systems of the Lviv community and the data of electronic boards at bus stops are not working properly.

In Sumy, street lighting was also turned off manually by company employees. 8 teams were working in the field, which had to disconnect more than 300 substations.

Currently, street lighting in the city of Sumy is completely turned off. Disconnection work continues in Starostyna districts. At the same time, due to disruptions in Kyivstar, there are problems in the operation of the sirens in Sumy.

The problem with street lighting, or rather the impossibility of turning it off, was also reported in Zaporizhzhia. The lights will also be turned off manually whenever possible.

In Chernivtsi, they warned of possible difficulties in paying public transport fares through an authenticator only when using a bank card or NFC. The reason is Kyivstar’s failure.

The Rivne City Council reported that a technical malfunction in the work of the mobile operator Kyivstar caused problems in the functioning of “hotlines” in Rivne with direct lines of the City Council.

“Due to a technical malfunction in the work of the mobile operator Kyivstar – mobile numbers 1553 and 096-333-15-53 are temporarily not working. We are waiting for the network to be restored,” the city hall said. said.

A similar problem was encountered in Dnipro.

Local journalist Vitaly Glagola reported that parking payment terminals are not working in Uzhhorod due to a large-scale interruption in the work of the Kyivstar mobile operator.

According to him, there is currently no possibility to pay for paid parking services through the terminal. Payment can only be made through the Smart Uzhhorod mobile application.

The failure in the Kyivstar network will partially affect the operation of some terminals and ATMs of “PrivatBank”, but will not affect the operation of the entire network, Hromadske said, spokesman for “PrivatBank” Oleh Serga.

He explained that some of all banks, ATMs and POS terminals work with mobile cards. So there is a mobile card in the POS terminal. And of course, the operation of terminals operating on Kievstar mobile cards will also be affected by the malfunction.

Serga added that some ATMs also use mobile communications, but in the PrivatBank ATM network the maximum percentage of ATMs using Kyivstar services is up to 5%.

It’s about the failure at Kievstar that matters

  • On the morning of December 12, Kyivstar experienced a technical malfunction. For this reason, many subscribers were deprived of the ability to communicate and access the internet.
  • Moreover, Kyivstar subscribers cannot switch to other operators using internal roaming. Since the communication problem also affects other services such as national roaming.

Source: 24 Tv

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