Kyivstar, Ukraine’s biggest mobile phone operator, reports that data consumption soared 139% year over year, in the second quarter of 2018.

Kyivstar, Ukraine’s biggest mobile phone operator, reports that data consumption soared 139% year over year, in the second quarter of 2018. During that time, the number of mobile Internet users was up by 21%, to 13.5 million, about half of Kyivstar’s 26.5 million total users. Kyivstar reports that its 3G service is available to about three quarters of Ukraine’s population. Mobile data consumption now is 1.8 gigabytes per year per user. By contrast, voice usage has stagnated, growing by only 1.2%, to about 10 hours a week per subscriber.