{"id":1008025,"date":"2026-05-15T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008025"},"modified":"2026-05-15T10:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:56:56","slug":"ukraines-kyivstar-raises-outlook-after-strong-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/15\/ukraines-kyivstar-raises-outlook-after-strong-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Kyivstar raises outlook after strong first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s biggest telecom operator Kyivstar on Wednesday raised its annual outlook after stronger digital-services growth and steady demand for mobile and broadband \u200cservices helped \u2060it \u2060outperform its earlier forecast despite the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it now expected 2026 revenue growth in U.S. dollar terms of 11% to 14%, up from a March forecast of 8% \u2060to 11%, while \u200cearnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, a measure of \u2060core profit, were now seen rising 7% to 10% versus its earlier 5% to 8% range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s biggest telecom operator Kyivstar on Wednesday raised its annual outlook after stronger digital-services growth and steady demand for mobile and broadband \u200cservices helped \u2060it \u2060outperform its earlier forecast despite the war with Russia. The company said it now expected 2026 revenue growth in U.S. dollar terms of 11% to 14%, up from a March forecast of 8% \u2060to 11%, while \u200cearnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, a measure of \u2060core profit, were now seen rising 7% to 10% versus its earlier 5% to 8% range.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008025","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=1008025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008046,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008025\/revisions\/1008046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}