{"id":1005796,"date":"2026-04-30T08:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005796"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:24:05","slug":"ukraines-top-telco-exceeds-1-billion-investment-goal-as-war-drives-network-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/ukraines-top-telco-exceeds-1-billion-investment-goal-as-war-drives-network-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s top telco exceeds $1 billion investment goal as war drives network spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s biggest mobile operator Kyivstar said on Wednesday it had invested $1.3 billion in the war-ravaged country since 2023, exceeding the previously pledged $1 billion ahead of the 2027 deadline. Veon, the telecoms group behind Kyivstar, had originally put \u200cforward $600 million \u2060to rebuild \u2060Ukraine&#8217;s digital infrastructure between 2023 and 2027. That figure was raised to $1 billion in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s biggest mobile operator Kyivstar said on Wednesday it had invested $1.3 billion in the war-ravaged country since 2023, exceeding the previously pledged $1 billion ahead of the 2027 deadline. Veon, the telecoms group behind Kyivstar, had originally put \u200cforward $600 million \u2060to rebuild \u2060Ukraine&#8217;s digital infrastructure between 2023 and 2027. That figure was raised to $1 billion in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005817,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005796\/revisions\/1005817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}