{"id":6444,"date":"2025-07-13T10:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6444\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T10:28:05","slug":"ukraine-to-be-the-first-in-europe-to-launch-starlink-mobile-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6444\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine to be the first in Europe to launch Starlink mobile Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/itc.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Depositphotos_603432928_L.jpg\" rel=\"fancybox nofollow noopener\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1788 \/ 1192;width: 100%;height: auto;display: block;\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Depositphotos_603432928_L-835x557.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine to be the first in Europe to launch Starlink mobile Internet\" width=\"1788\" height=\"1192\" class=\"img-responsive itc-post-thumb\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00abKyivstar\u00bb plans to launch new Starlink services this year. Their range and capabilities will be expanded over time.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr Komarov, CEO of \u00abKyivstar\u00bb, told the agency about the company\u2019s plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/ukraine-launch-starlink-mobile-internet-2026-becoming-europes-first-kyivstar-2025-07-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters<\/a> in Rome. According to him, messaging will be launched by the end of 2025, and mobile satellite broadband will be launched in mid-2026.<\/p>\n<p>Field tests of the new communication began in late 2024 as part of an agreement with SpaceX. For its part, Elon Musk\u2019s space company will launch the possibility of direct communication with mobile phones in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abThe first stage is messaging via OTT technologies (over-the-top messaging), i.e. messaging via WhatsApp, Signal and other systems. It will be introduced at the end of this year. Probably in early 2026, or in the second quarter of 2026, we will be able to offer mobile satellite broadband data and voice communications,\u00bb the company\u2019s CEO said.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s CEO spoke about the resilience of Ukraine\u2019s telecommunications infrastructure during the war and almost constant air attacks. He noted the great progress compared to the outages caused by shelling three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abI think we are much more resilient than we were in 2022. We can now provide our landline and mobile services for up to 10 hours during power outages, even nationwide\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Komarov also spoke about \u00abthe first-ever direct placement of a [Ukrainian] company on a US stock exchange\u00bb. \u00abKyivstar\u00bb, owned by the VEON telecommunications group, is working on listing its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange in the United States. This project is \u00abprogressing\u00bb and is expected to be launched in the third quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, in 2022 Starlink and the American operator T-Mobile have agreed on satellite communications via 5G phones. This year <a href=\"https:\/\/itc.ua\/en\/news\/apple-unexpectedly-introduces-starlink-support-in-ios-18-3-satellite-connection-is-already-working\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple has introduced support for Starlink<\/a> in iOS 18.3, and the operator <a href=\"https:\/\/itc.ua\/en\/news\/verizon-launches-satellite-service-iphones-are-not-compatible\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verizon launches satellite communications with the help of Skylo<\/a> \u2014 iPhone does not support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abKyivstar\u00bb plans to launch new Starlink services this year. 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