OREANDA-NEWS. July 20, 2011. A joint action from Kyivstar and Yandex will start, providing a possibility of using a Yandex.Maps mobile application free of charge. Yandex.Maps is a special service, helping to orientate oneself in a city.

"Kyivstar" and Yandex have started a joint action, under the terms of which the Kyivstar clients can use the Yandex.Maps application from their mobile device on the territory of Ukraine without paying for Internet traffic. The action will last up until 01 September 2011.

At present Yandex.Maps offers detailed schemes of 56 localities of Ukraine. This application makes it possible to look for addresses, organizations according to its name, find one’s location, learn about traffic jams, road accidents and develop the routes with one’s mobile phone or device. The service also allows drivers to create an up-to-date map of road conditions independently and anonymously.

Those Kyivstar subscribers, who want to use mobile maps without paying for the traffic, should install the freshest version of the application on their mobile phone. To do so one should enter the mobile.yandex.ru/kyivstar page, or get from a mobile device to m.ya.ru/ymm/ks, or send an enquiry to number *224#(call key). The mobile Yandex.Maps with free Internet traffic are available at iPhone, Android, Symbian, Java and Windows mobile platforms.

Vitaliy Vorozhbit, Director for Kyivstar Business Development on the Mass Market:

"We are taking care that mobile Internet becomes an assistant to our clients and offering various solutions for money-saving and comfortable travel through the world wide web’s space. We believe that a joint project with Yandex will be interesting for those who want to use comfortable and affordable mobile solutions. With Yandex.Maps application our clients will easily find a necessary address, orientate oneself in an unknown district or city, not thinking about the rates".

Vyacheslav Baranskyi, Yandex.Ukraine mobile maps marketing manager:

"Kyivstar is the largest operator in Ukraine, that is why our joint action will become a present for many users of the mobile maps. And for those Kyivstar subscribers who are not aware of the application there is a reason to test it. All the more so it is the first cartographic application for a mobile phone in Ukraine, in which Internet traffic is offered free of charge".

With joint actions Kyivstar takes care that clients get the maximum from mobile Internet.