Public Joint-Stock Company Ukrtelecom (DB:UK1) is in talks on acquisition of internet service providers (ISP), Oleksandr Barinov, Supervisory Board Member of Ukrtelecom has announced in an interview with Kapital newspaper. "This is one of the scenarios. We have already started talks with several players on the matter," he answered to the question if Ukrtelecom had plans to augment subscriber base by way of purchase of ISPs.

"Most of all has been done in the last six months. Now we have achieved a rate of about 10 population centre a day. In all, will have connected 350 villages by the end of the year.

In six or eight weeks we sell out connections to the ports created. Capital inputs in such projects are huge, and payback period stretches for four or five years," stressed Barinov.