KIEV, Oct. 13 ??“ As of early October over 23.18 million people in Ukraine, or nearly 50% of the country's population, used mobile communication services.

The closed Kyivstar GSM has the biggest amount of Ukrainian subscribers: as of Oct. 1, it serviced 10.942 million people. These include 922,000 corporate and contracted subscribers, 6.261 million ??“ Ace&Base pre-paid service users and 3.759 million DJUICE subscribers. Correspondingly, there are 10.020 million users of pre-paid services (Ace&Base and DJUICE).