Kyivstar

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Kyivstar JSC

Headquarters of Kyivstar
Company type	Joint-stock company
Industry	Mobile Telecommunications
Founded	1994
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Key people	Oleksandr Komarov — President Andrew Simmons — CFO [1]
Products	Cellular (2G:GSM, 3G:UMTS, 4G:LTE), Internet access (FTTB)
Revenue	₴15.753 billion (2016)[2]
Operating income	₴4.229 billion (2016)[2]
Net income	₴3.410 billion(2016)[2]
Total assets	24,463,716,000 hryvnia (2020)
Number of employees	~4 000 (2017)
Parent	VEON
Website	kyivstar.ua

Kyivstar (Ukrainian: Київстар) is a Ukrainian telecommunications company, providing communication services and data transmission based on a broad range of fixed and mobile technologies, including 4G (LTE) services, in Ukraine.

The Kyivstar mobile network covers all cities of Ukraine, as well as more than 28,000 rural settlements, all major national and regional routes, most sea, and river coasts. As of 2024, Kyivstar is the largest mobile operator and one of the largest broadband Internet providers in Ukraine, serving about 24 million mobile customers and more than 1 million fixed broadband internet customers ("Home Internet").^[3] The company has obtained six network codes: 67, 68, 77, 96, 97 and 98,^[4] but customers are free to move to another operator and keep their phone number using mobile number portability.^[5]

Together with the main telecom services, Kyivstar provides FMC services (convergence of mobile and fixed communications), digital solutions - Big Data, industrial IoT, cloud services, mobile financial services, Open API "Kyivstar Open Telecom" and others. The company implements these products both independently and in partnership with large IT companies, including Microsoft.

Kyivstar is also one of the leaders in the OTT TV segment, providing access to more than 250 TV channels.

Kyivstar has built the largest communication infrastructure in Ukraine - more than 48 thousand base stations. The company uses its fiber-optic network with a total length of 44,000 km and a bandwidth of over 380 Gbps.

PJSC Kyivstar was founded and registered in Ukraine in 1994 and has been providing mobile services since 1997. The company's head office is located in Kyiv. Kyivstar is a part of the international telecom group VEON. VEON, Ltd. is a Netherlands-headquartered, NASDAQ, and EURONEXT-listed company with an investor base including thousands of shareholders in the U.S. and Europe and worldwide. VEON does not have, and never have had, a majority or controlling shareholder.

Since 2006, Kyivstar has been implementing social responsibility projects.

Following the results of 2016, Kyivstar became one of 29 Ukrainian companies, which, according to the American consulting group Deloitte, were ranked among the 500 largest companies in Central and Eastern Europe.

In 2020, Kyivstar became the most expensive brand in Ukraine according to Korrespondent magazine, and the best employer in Ukraine in the TOP-100 rating. It was also rated the largest Company of the Year in mobile communication. According to the results of 2020 and 2021 Kyivstar is the largest taxpayer in Ukraine among the companies in the field of communications and information.

Oleksandr Komarov has been the President of the company since December 2018.