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2024

Top 10 Internet providers of Ukraine by revenue and subscribers

As of the end of the first half of 2024, Ukrtelecom became the largest Internet provider in Ukraine in terms of revenue. At the same time, Kyivstar is in the lead in terms of the number of subscribers served. This is evidenced by the data of the analytical dashboard "Market for fixed Internet access services," published in mid-November 2024.

It is noted that in January-June 2024, ten leading Ukrainian Internet providers provide communications to 33% of local subscribers - approximately 2.8 million users. These companies account for 28% of total industry revenue. The total income of the Top 10 providers amounted to 6.2 billion hryvnia ($0.15 billion at the exchange rate as of November 21, 2024) for the period from the second quarter of 2023 to the second quarter of 2024. The income of all Internet providers in the country for this period is estimated at 22.4 billion hryvnia ($0.54 billion). The average revenue per subscriber for ten leading companies is 185 hryvnia ($4.49) per month.

The rating of the Top 10 Internet providers of Ukraine by revenue is as follows:

1. "Ukrtelecom" - 0.83 billion hryvnia;

2. "Kievstar" - 0.69 billion hryvnia;

3. "Volya-Cable" - 0.44 billion hryvnia;

4. "Tatagrup" - 0.34 billion hryvnia;

5. "NPK Home-Net" - 0.21 billion hryvnia;

6 "Frinet" - 0.19 billion hryvnia;

7. "Business and Technology" - 0.15 billion hryvnia;

8. Farlep-Invest - 0.1 billion hryvnia;

9. "Wild Garden" - 0.08 billion hryvnia;

10. "Network Lanet" - 0.08 billion hryvnia.

Rating of the Top 10 Internet providers of Ukraine by the number of subscribers:

1. "Kievstar" - 1.175 million;

2. Ukrtelecom - 466 thousand;

3. "Volya-Cable" - 420 thousand;

4. "Frontier" - 150 thousand;

5. "NPK Home-Net" - 133 thousand;

6. datagrup "- 132 thousand;

7. "Business and Technology" - 111 thousand;

8. Farlep-Invest - 104 thousand;

9. "Wild Garden" - 92 thousand;

10. "Network Lanet" - 47 thousand.^[1]

Internet providers were raised taxes. They close and go to work in gray

On October 15, 2024, it became known that Internet providers were being closed en masse in Ukraine. This is due to higher taxes. In particular, in accordance with the innovations, Ukrainian fixed Internet providers will not be able to work according to a simplified taxation system and must make deductions on a general basis.

According to the publication "Economic Pravda," the number of Internet providers in Ukraine before the change in the tax regime was about 3.5 thousand. Such structures were registered mainly as individual private entrepreneurs. But after tightening tax requirements, local providers began to massively curtail their activities, as the head of the Verkhovna Rada subcommittee on cybersecurity, Alexander Fedienko, spoke about.

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Фото: Freepik

After the State Tax Service of Ukraine began to destroy small business Internet providers, I wondered how many entities that provided Internet access services would stop working. The response I received just stunned me! 1316 subjects left the regulator's register, that is, ceased to exist, - said Fedienko on his page on the social network Facebook (owned by Meta, which is recognized as an extremist organization; activities on the territory of the Russian Federation are prohibited).

It is noted that due to changes in the tax regime, some Internet providers in Ukraine have completely ceased their activities. Others went into the shadows, starting to "work in gray." In addition, some providers have put their business up for sale. According to Interfax, most of the subjects that ceased their activities were located in Kyiv and the Kyiv region - 156 organizations, as well as in the Cherkasy region - 108 units.^[2]

2023: Internet censorship system launched to block sites and monitor user activity

In early March 2023, Ukraine launched a centralized system for automatic blocking of Internet resources. Every 15 minutes, the corresponding list of forbidden sites will be updated on the servers of Ukrainian operators.

The system was introduced by order of the National Center for Operational and Technical Management of Telecommunication Networks of 30.01.2023 No. 67/850. Until March 2, all Ukrainian Internet providers were to install it.

In addition to blocking access to prohibited sites itself, it also collects data on users who tried to bypass the ban.

Information about violators will be promptly received by the relevant authorities.

The authorities say that the system is needed solely to filter fraudulent resources, but local Internet activists believe that there are no obstacles to blocking any inconvenient site at all.

2022: The cheapest communication in the world turned out to be in Ukraine

According to TradingPlatforms.com analysts, which were released in July 2022, the world's cheapest wired Internet is available to residents of Ukraine - they pay an average of $6.4 per month for it. At the same time, the most expensive Internet is in Eritrea ($2666 per month). In addition, this country is leading in price at 1 Mbps - $1,590, which is about seven times more than in Niger, the second most expensive country. Read more here.

2019: Decision on mandatory duplication of sites in Ukrainian

25.04.2019 in Ukraine, it was decided that all sites and pages in social networks should be in Ukrainian or duplicated.

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See also

• Economy of Ukraine
• IT market of Ukraine
• Information security in Ukraine
• Cybercrime and cyber conflicts: Ukraine
• IT Public Procurement (Ukraine)
• Cellular communication (Ukrainian market)
• Cell phones (Ukrainian market)
• Internet (Ukrainian market)
• Electronic payment systems in Ukraine
• IPTV (Ukrainian market)
• Cryptocurrencies in Ukraine

• In Ukraine, 7 million web users

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