OREANDA-NEWS.  August 27, 2013. Ukraine is interested in projects which afford to provide for users of any corner of the country more available Internet, according to the head of State Agency for Science, Innovations and Informatization Volodymyr Semynozhenko.

In particular, actual for our state appears an initiative suggested by the founder of the Facebook network, concerning launch of Internet.org project that is to enable significantly cheapen Internet for those people who cannot afford to connect to the world web for now.

He informed that nowadays the services in Internet access render 1482 operators. 43.5% of Ukrainians have access to the Internet with 35% of households that have broadband access (common European showing is 65%). 

There has been fulfilled almost full coverage of the territory of Ukraine by movable (mobile) communication the penetration rate of which makes up 130.3% of overall number of Ukraine’s population, according to the data of telecommunication operators.
 
“Ukraine is advancing steadily in the direction of development of informational society, the national information area is in the state of active formation, harmonious including into the global information space,” V.Semynozhenko said and added that these days Ukrainians participated with growing activity in global processes of creating and use of world information resources.