Utel is a telecommunications company in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. It is a subsidiary of Ukrtelecom

Ukrtelecom

Ukrtelecom JSC was Ukraine's monopolist government-owned telephone company, also active in Internet service providing and mobile markets. The company was governed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Ukraine with 92.9% shares belong to government.Austrian investment firm EPIC...

, government-owned fixed phone operator. Utel launched country's first commercial 3G

3G

3G or 3rd generation mobile telecommunications is a generation of standards for mobile phones and mobile telecommunication services fulfilling the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 specifications by the International Telecommunication Union...

 cellular network

Cellular network

A cellular network is a radio network distributed over land areas called cells, each served by at least one fixed-location transceiver known as a cell site or base station. When joined together these cells provide radio coverage over a wide geographic area...

 based on the UMTS/HSDPA standard on November 1, 2007.
Currently UTEL is only network in Ukraine that provides UMTS 2100 service (other providers provide CDMA technology).
It's 3G coverage exists only in main cities.