1. Country: Ukraine
Country suffix: .ua

Population: 52 million
Area: 603 700 sq km
Capital: Kiev

2. Estimated number of hosts in the local Internet
Approx. 22000 hosts (December 1998)

3. Estimated number of users in the educational/commercial/governmental sectors:
educational 100 000
commercial 40 000
governmental 5 000

4. List of major commercial ISP's
1. Infocom (UkrPak)
2. UkrTeleCom www.ukrtel.net
3. Sovam Teleport
4. LuckyNet
5. Global Ukraine (Ukraine Online)
6. Relcom Ukraine

5. List of major non-commercial ISP's
1. FreeNet
2. KarNet
3. ICMP (supports non-commercial activity)

6. Internet Service Providers operating their own backbone networks:
I. Infocom
X.25 and Frame Relay operator, available in all cities.
Foreign connectivity: 2M satellite connection to TeleGlobe.
Commercial ISP.

II. Ukrtelecom
A PTT but also runs IP over their network. Present all over the Ukraine.
Fiber connections between major cities, at speeds from 64k to 2M.
Foreign connections: 2M satellite connection to UUNET and 2M satellite
connection to MCI.
Commercial ISP.

III. Sovam Teleport
Present in 5 major cities, connection through leased lines, speed uknown
Foreign connection: 2M link to St.Petersburg.
Commercial ISP.

IV. LuckyNet
Present in 20 cities, connection through leased lines from Ukrtelecom,
running at speed 64k-128k. Also some digital lines from Ukrtelecom at
speeds 64k-384k.
Foreign connections: 4M satellite link to Deutsche Telecom and 2M link
to RusTeleCom (Russia).
Commercial ISP.

V. Global Ukraine
Connections to 23 cities, analog lines leased from Ukrtelecom,
also hybrid satellite links (with return parth through terrestial links).
Runs Frame Relay to Odessa (128k) and Donetsk (2M).
Foreign connections: 1M satellite to Digex and 2M satellite to UUNET.
Commercial ISP.

VI. Relcom-Ukraine
Present in 9 citiesm, connection through leased lines from Ukrtelecom,
speed up to 128k.
Foreign connection through Infocom.
Commercial ISP.


Many smaller ISPs use their own satellite connections.

7. More information about country:

• Academic/Research/Educational Network
• ESSAT Survey