Mobil, or cell telephones, in Kiev Ukraine have changed dramatically in the last few years. Mobile telephones are a must have here because of their great convenience, low cost and the unavailability of land lines!
Mobile phones are also quite the status symbol and most people have very expensive phones. Also, and interesting statistic is that there are more mobile telephones in the Ukraine than there are people.
The two main mobile telephone company here are UMC and Kyivstar. These two telephone companies both work the same way and cost about the same. You purchase a chip and insert it in your telephone or you can buy a new telephone from them. UMC site is www.umc.ua and Kyivstar at www.kyivstar.net
In October 2003 all mobile telephone incoming calls became free. This is very important because your Ukrainian friends probably cannot afford to make a call but will be very happy to receive a call from you.
This is also a great reason to get a cell phone when you are in Kiev. You can e-mail your mobile telephone number to your friend back home and when they call you there is no charge to you!
Outgoing tariffs are around $0.50 per minute but can be as little as $0.20 if you call the same phone company as you use.
I use the Life brand and if you have this company you can call our office for no charge to you and us! Also with life if you enter the code 811 before dialing internationally the charge for North America is $0.50 and $0.60 for Europe.
You can see the Life web site at: http://www.life.com.ua/index.php?lng=en
Life also has great rates for Internet.
The photo shown is typical of Internet and Cell phone cards being sold all across the Ukraine. You can purchase a chip and credit from vendors like this that are literally located on every street corner.
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