Kyivstar provided 1,000 bomb shelters across Ukraine for free with its Home Internet service.
This was reported to Ukrinform by the press service of the national mobile operator.
In particular, since the beginning of the war, this service has been taken from the operator by such cities as Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Lviv, Dnipro, Obukhiv, Khmelnytsky, Belgorod-Dniester, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhia, Lutsk, Mykolayiv and others. . The company connects an average of 15 new locations per day and actively accepts connection applications.
In order to apply for the bomb shelter to connect to the internet, you must send a request to the wifi@kyivstar.net e-mail address stating your contacts and connection address. Within a few days, the technician will provide feedback on the connection and the time required to complete the request.
“Now each of us contributes to approaching victory in this war, and now our main task is to provide citizens with either mobile or stationary communication. Therefore, it is necessary to connect the bunkers to the Internet, actively restore and even modernize the network, as well as free services to subscribers in temporarily occupied and hostile areas. We continue to deliver,” said Serhiy Sukhoruk, Head of Fixed Communications at Kyivstar Department.
As reported, from the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion, Kyivstar has taken measures to assist customers and the community. The operator provided free services to subscribers over UAH 400 million. The company also donated more than 30 million hryvnia to charities for the humanitarian needs of the army, hospitals, the elderly and war victims. In particular, the mobile operator provided assistance to the Charitable Foundation “Back Live”, the Charitable Foundation “Your Support”, the Charitable Foundation “Let’s Help” and the Charitable Organization “Caritas Ukraine”. He also transferred about 2 million hryvnia in the framework of the charity concert of the international telethon Save Ukraine and Okean Elzy.
Kyivstar is Ukraine’s largest electronic communications operator, serving 26.2 million mobile subscribers and more than 1 million Home Internet subscribers as of the end of 2021. The company provides services based on a wide range of mobile and fixed technologies, including 4G. Today, more than 90% of the Ukrainian population lives in the LTE zone. Kyiv star.