OREANDA-NEWS. July 20, 2011. Kyivstar has expanded its high speed Internet network to 50 cities and towns of Ukraine. The "Jubilee" city has become Yalta, where 25 thousand apartments now have a possibility of getting connected to the worldwide web on the basis of the FTTB technology.

has become the third city of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea and the 50th city in Ukraine, where the broadband Internet from "Kyivstar" has been installed. From the beginning of June 2011 the residents of 25 thousand apartments in 235 houses have a possibility of using "Home Internet". To provide the Yalta residents with high quality and quick access to the worldwide web, Kyivstar laid 44 km of the of the fiber-optic network.

The residents of Horkoho, Krupskoi, Naidionova, Rudanskoho and Dzerzhynskoho Streets have a possibility of getting connected to the "Home Internet". Kyivstar offers to the Yalta residents a unique solution: "Home Internet" along with mobile communications. Making use of the Kyivstar offer the client gets unlimited fixed Internet and mobile communications services for all the amount of the Internet monthly fee. The maximum access speed in the "Home Internet" rate plans equals to 80 MB/sec. The value of the unlimited Internet in the package with the mobile communications starts from 55 UAH, depending on the desired access speed.

ЯлTa (Yalta) is a resort city on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsular founded by the Greeks in the 1st century A.D. The city is famous for a large amount of palaces, museums and monuments of architecture. It is one of the most favorite recreation places of the tourists.

Bitaliy Vorozhbit, Director of Services Development on the Mass Market:

"For us the connection of the 50th city to the „Home Internet“ is an significant event. The prosperity of the cities and towns oriented to the development of tourism depends greatly upon the level of broadband Internet penetration. Indeed, it’s the simplest way to make oneself known and to promote its services among the billion audience of the Internet all over the world. We hope that the super high speed Kyivstar Internet will contribute to the economic opportunities of the Yalta residents".

As of today the broadband Kyivstar Internet in available for the residents of 2 million 680 thousand apartments in about 26 thousand apartment buildings in 50 cities of Ukraine.

Kyivstar provides high speed and affordable Internet to private and corporate clients, which helps in life and business.