KIEV, Aug. 19 ??“ Mobile communications operators UMC will overtake rival Kyivstar to become the official sponsor of Ukraine??™s National Olympics Committee, NOC President Serhiy Bubka announced, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

Bubka said UMC has offered to provide UAH28.231 million through Dec. 31, 2008, or UAH9.41 million per year; Kyivstar - UAH10 million until 2009, which is UAH2.5 million per year.