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(in photo - Dnipro River)
Telephone
Here is some information as to Ukrainian phone price-rates:
Calls are paid per minute, starting from the moment the connection is established. Intercity calls within Ukraine are up to 0.12 USD/minute. International calls to the Western Europe are 0.50 - 0.60 USD/minute. International calls to USA are 0.36 USD/minute. International calls to more distant countries are up to 2.00 USD/minute. Phone usage charge at hotels is often 2-3 times higher than phone companies tariffs.
How to call to Ukraine from abroad
Dial international access code in your country (usually it is 00, 09 or 011, but may differ in your country), then dial 38 (international code of Ukraine) + city code + city number; 011 - International access code in USA; 38 - International code of Ukraine; 048 - City code of Odessa.
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(in photo - The Orthodox Cathedral in Kharkiv)
Mobile Phone Networks
There are several companies serving cellular connection in Ukraine:
UMC - National operator of cellular connection. Standard: GSM 900; Kyivstar GSM - National operator of cellular connection. Standard: GSM 900/GSM 1800; DCC - covers Kyiv, Odesa, Crimea, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrivsk, Zaporizhzhya and some other regions of Ukraine. Standard: D-AMPS; Golden Telecom - covers Kyiv and Odesa. Standard: GSM 1800; WellCom - Kyiv only. Standard: GSM 900; Beeline - covers some Ukrainian regions. Standard: GSM; Life:) - covers some Ukrainian regions. Standard: GSM
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(in photo - Lavra Percheska, Kiev)
Internet
Plenty of cyber cafes and clubs provide Internet connection at 1-2 USD per hour. Some hotels offer Internet connection in the rooms, delivered to the room via Ethernet network usually. It is recommended to keep a twisted-pair Ethernet cable with RJ-45 connectors with you if you plan to connect your laptop to the hotel network. Dial-up access is about 0.50 - 1.00 USD/hour. When bringing a laptop in Ukraine, prepaid time cards for Internet access can be used. These cards indicate login, password, connection set-up details and phone numbers for dial-up access. Internet cards can be purchased at computer shops and news-stalls.
Mail
Services of the Ukrainian State Mail are inexpensive but prove again the name of "snail". Delivery within Ukraine takes 3-7 days, mail to/from foreign countries reach addressee in about 2 weeks. Therefore, it might be a good idea to use a courier delivery for faster and more effective services. The majority of International couriers have Ukrainian branches. The most popular here is DHL. Food, plants and animals are prohibited content for mailings to Ukraine, unless the recipient has a special permission from state authorities.
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(in photo - Beautiful Odessa)
Postal codes
Cherkasy 18000 - 18040; Mykolaiv 54000 - 54058; Chernihiv 14000 - 14039; Odesa 65000 - 65122
Chernivtsi 58000 - 58033; Poltava 36000 - 36042; Dnipropetrovsk 49000 - 49131; Rivno 33000 - 33040
Donetsk 83000 - 83122; Sevastopol 99000 - 99059; Ivano-Frankivsk 76000 - 76030; Simferopol 95000 - 95053
Kharkiv 61000 - 61204; Sumy 40000 - 40035; Khemlytsk(yi) 29000 - 29040; Ternopil 46000 - 46027
Kherson 73000 - 73043; Uzhgorod 88000 - 88020; Kirovohrad 25000 - 25040; Vinnytsia 21000 - 21050
Kyiv 01000 - 06215; Yalta 98600 - 98639; Luhansk 91000 - 91060; Zaporizhzhya 69000 - 69125
Lutsk 43000 - 43030; Zhytomyr 10000 - 10031; Lviv 79000 - 79090
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