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The Kyivstar telecommunication operator has introduced services "Package 20 SMS" and "Package 10 MMS" for subscribers of Beeline (the Ukrainian Radiosystems Company) from April 6. Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by Kyivstar. The effect of package messages is one week. The cost of the service of SMS is UAH 3/week, the cost of service of MMS is UAH 2/week. As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Kyivstar telecommunications operator and the Beeline mobile communications operator (the Ukrainian Radiosystems and Golden Telecom companies) ended the period of October-December 2010 with a net profit of UAH 514.1 million. On October 5, 2009, the Altimo company (Russia) and Telenor agreed to merge Kyivstar and VimpelCom to create a new cellular communications operator, VimpelCom Ltd. (Bermuda islands), to provide integrated cellular communications services in Russia, Ukraine, and other member-countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as in Georgia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Kyivstar and Beeline intend to complete their merger by 2014.

The Kyivstar mobile communication operator has provided an SMS/MMS by e-mail service from January, the company says in a press-release. Thus, subscribers can receive text and a multimedia messages, audio files through e-mail. The subscribers will receive SMSs and MMSs both in Ukraine and being in roaming. An SMS should be not longer than 765 symbols of Roman letters and 335 symbols of Cyrillic letters, while multimedia contents (MMS) can be up to 1 megabyte. To connect to the service a subscriber should send a text message with any content to 7021. To send an SMS from computer one should write an address in a 380ХХХХХХХХX@sms.kyivstar.net format; for an MMS — 380ХХХХХХХХX@mms.kyivstar.net where 380ХХХХХХХХX is an addressee's phone number. The service will be rendered free until February 28. However, the operator does not specify service tariffs as of March 1. As Ukrainian News reported, Kyivstar generated a profit of NOK 5.1 billion with a net income being down by 34.6% or NOK 4.787 billion to NOK 9.047 billion in 2009 compared with 2008.

Ukrainian mobile services operator life:) is the first mobile services operator throughout the CIS countries to offer its subscribers, who use Facebook and VKontakte, to manage updates on their pages directly from their mobile devices, and to stay reachable all the time. Thanks to cooperation of the operator with one of the largest social networks Facebook, life:) subscribers which are the Facebook users, have possibility to receive SMS-notifications about new messages, comments to pictures, requests from new friends, and also to update their personal pages via SMS and to upload personal photos through MMS. life:) subscribers with accounts on the VKontakte network are the first mobile users in Ukraine who already have an opportunity instantly receiving via SMS updates’ information on personal pages in VKontakte. Thanks to the continued cooperation of the operator and the VKontakte social network, life:) customers can also update their accounts through SMS and reply to new posts received via SMS, using their handsets. To stay in touch and to see almost everything that happens on the pages of Facebook and VKontakte now you don’t need to have the latest smartphone, neither to use any notebook or desktop. Thanks to new services from life:), members of social networks can communicate wherever they are, using phone functions available to everyone. Moreover, life:) was the first among Ukrainian mobile operators to offer its subscribers "Free Access"  service, so that they can use a simplified version of Facebook and VKontakte with no charge for traffic. To update your Facebook or VKontakte accounts via SMS, just register your life:) number in the corresponding social network! Cost of the SMS which enables to make changes into the accounts is 0.39 UAH including VAT. To respond to messages from friends in VKontakte using mobile phone, you need to insert a received code into the SMS before a text of a reply. The cost of the SMS-answer is 0.39 UAH including VAT. The cost of photos upload on the Facebook is equal to the standard cost of an MMS.

Mobile services operator life:) introduces new favorable tariff “life:) crazy day”, offering an impressive daily package of services to its subscribers, which includes 200 minutes for calls to all life:) numbers, 20 MB of mobile Internet and 20 SMS to be sent within Ukraine.

The MTS Ukraine mobile communication operator has raised the cost of an SMS to numbers of foreign operators by 19% to UAH 1.19 from August 15, the operator said.