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months, 200 free advertisements, and special support from eBay, announced Ukrposhta.
5G cell phone frequencies will be sold through auctions next year, Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced yesterday at the Kyiv International Economic Forum. Introduction in big cities will start by 2024, he predicted.
Access to high-speed Internet for 95% of the population by 2024. This announcement was made by the Minister of Digital Transformation, Mikhail Fedorov, during the "Digital Transformation Forum 2.0”. “The key goal is to cover 95% of the country's population with high-speed Internet by 2024. We are actively working with operators. , we are conducting research in the field of 5G development, because it is a technology without which it is impossible to be a successful digital state," said Fedorov.
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) plans to create a technopark with an investment of UAH 50 mln ($1.88 mln). NaUKMA together with the Bureau of Investment Programs (BIP) plans to create a technopark with the participation of an investor. After the completion of construction, the area will be able to accommodate 40 companies and coworking space for students. The return on investment in such a project is seven to eight years due to residents' rents and additional services of the technopark management team, said the Director of BIP, Olexander Bondarenko in a press release.
9.1.8 Tourism sector news
Receipts from Kyiv tourism tax on hotel room rentals is up 34% y/y through September, to $1.8mn, reports the Kyiv City State Administration. Marina Honda, deputy head of the Administration, said that so far this year, Kyiv has been visited by 500,000 foreign tourists and 1.2mn domestic tourists.
Turkey is on track to attract 2 million Ukrainian tourists this year, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba estimates. This year, Turkey is attracting 44% of Ukrainians foreign vacation travelers, up from 18% in 2015, reports the Kyiv Post. Aided by the visa-free, passport-free travel regime between the two nations, about 1.1 million Ukrainians have vacationed in Antalya so far this year. By the end of this year, 5% of Ukraine’s population will have vacationed in Turkey.
9.1.9 Utilities sector news
With Ukraine facing a coal shortage this winter, Russia stops exporting thermal coal to Ukraine on November 1, Andriy Gerus, head of the Rada’s Energy Commission announced on Telegram. Seven Ukrainian power plants were importing anthracite coal from Russia, Gerus wrote. Imports of coking coal for steelmaking continue from Russia, Gerus said. With Ukraine’s coal stocks at only 25% of the target level for this period, 24 power production blocks are idle. Nuclear plants are picking up the slack.
Five ships are steaming from the US to Ukraine loaded with a total of 280,000 tons of coal, Interfax-Ukraine reports, citing ‘a government source.’
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