$BEFORE_TIT2Kyivstar$AFTER_TIT2
CJSC "KYIVSTAR GSM" was founded in 1994. The main investor of that project was "Telenor" - Norwegian company, which now holds 61,93% of the shares. The other "KYIVSTAR GSM" shareholders are: "Storm" Corporation (32,39%) and "Omega" Corporation (5,69%). "KYIVSTAR GSM" started its operation as a commercial cellular network on the 9th of December 1997. It was positioned at the Ukrainian telco market under the "BRIDGE" trademark.
The company has started its operation with self-developed billing system, but fast increasing of the subscribers base proved the necessity to change this solution. In the early 1998 CJSC "KYIVSTAR GSM" requested the "PETER-SERVICE" Company to install the enterprise billing system in its network.
Reinstallation requirements:
The system which has been running by now was installed within 30 days and was put into operation in the same year in June. With this system KyivStar has achieved the following growth dynamics for the last five years:
i.e. the subscribers base has been tripled annually!!! (for comparison - within CIS subscribers base is normally growing twice annually)
To provide such a fast growth, the system functionality has been significantly modified within the operation period, the following newly added features are now supported:
Being a national telco operator, KyivStar has a wide network of branches all over the Ukraine. Today the billing system installed supports tens of branches and hundreds of users and provides centralized services control for all the operator switches.
Despite that KyivStar has started its business later than other telco operators, it has rapidly become a leader of mobile communications in Ukraine. This leadership can be proved by a wide geography of roaming services which the company offers to its subscribers and the roaming approach chosen: it was the first operator within CIS which started the roaming data processing in the ÒÀÐ3 format just after its introduction in 2000. To implement this approach the newly developed PETER-SERVICE product - Roaming Support System was installed in the company network, it was the only one of such kind in the CIS at that time. Using the system allowed not only to accelerate dramatically the roaming data processing, but also to support new services, such as GPRS.
One more problem which had to be successfully eliminated already during the system operation was to dramatically increase the rating performance because of extremely fast growing of subscribers base. For that purpose the operator has decided to use one more PETER-SERVICE product - High-Performance Rating Server. This solution was installed in April 2002 and allowed to increase the CDR processing speed more than ten times.
Today the KyivStar Company is running the PETER-SERVICE BIS version 3.4, DBMS Oracle version 9i under the HP SuperDome (SPARC/PA-RISC/x86…) platform.