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VEON’s Kyivstar Invests in Renewable Energy in Ukraine with Acquisitio...
VEON’s Kyivstar Invests in Renewable Energy in Ukraine with Acquisition in Solar Power Company Dubai and Kyiv, December 16, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), announces that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), Ukraine's leading digital operator, has acquired 100% of LLC SUNVIN 11, adding 12.9 MW of solar generation capacity to its energy resilience investments. The acquisition marks Kyivstar’s first investment into renewable energy. Electricity generated by the solar facility will be supplied to Ukraine’s national grid in accordance with applicable market and regulatory frameworks. The acquisiti...
VEON Announces Release Date for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Resu...
VEON Announces Release Date for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Results of Both VEON and Kyivstar VEON Announces Release Date for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Results of Both VEON and Kyivstar Dubai, December 16, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or “the Company”), today confirms that VEON and its operating company Kyivstar Group Limited (“Kyivstar”, Nasdaq: KYIV), will release its selected consolidated financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, on Monday, March 16, 2026. This date has been set in r...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Delivers First Starlink Direct to Cell Call ...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Delivers First Starlink Direct to Cell Call in Central Asia Almaty, December 15, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announces that Beeline Kazakhstan, its digital operator in Kazakhstan, has completed a field test and delivered the first-ever voice call through an app, as well as text messages, via Starlink Direct to Cell in Central Asia, successfully merging satellite and terrestrial mobile connectivity for another VEON market. During the test, Beeline Kazakhstan CEO Evgeniy Nastradin and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Art...
VEON’s Banglalink Receives Regulatory Approval to Launch Digital Payme...
VEON’s Banglalink Receives Regulatory Approval to Launch Digital Payment Services to Advance Financial Inclusion in Bangladesh Dubai and Dhaka, December 11, 2025 - VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announces that Banglalink, its digital operator in Bangladesh, has received the permission of Bangladesh Bank to operate as a payment service provider - a milestone in the operator’s ambition to expand further into digital financial services. As a payment services provider, Banglalink will be able to offer regulated money transfer and payment services for cus...
VEON Recognized for JazzCash, Kyivstar and Jazz at the World Communica...
VEON Recognized for JazzCash, Kyivstar and Jazz at the World Communication Awards 2025 London, December 10, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), announces that it has been recognized across three categories at the World Communication Awards 2025, acknowledging the Group’s advancements in financial inclusion, resilient connectivity and digital transformation. JazzCash, VEON’s digital financial services platform in Pakistan, received the Gold Award in the Beyond Connectivity category. Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq:...
VEON’s Rising Capital Markets Profile Strengthened by Inclusion in Key...
VEON’s Rising Capital Markets Profile Strengthened by Inclusion in Key Global Indices Dubai, December 10, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or “the Company”), today announced its inclusion in two major international equity indices, further strengthening the Company’s visibility and accessibility to global institutional investors. VEON has been added to the S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) following the September 2025 rebalance by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P Global BMI serves as a core reference benchmark for institutional portfolio allocation, coverin...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Breaks Ground for Hyper Cloud Data Center to...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Breaks Ground for Hyper Cloud Data Center to Offer Sovereign Enterprise, AI and Digital Services Dubai and Almaty, December 8, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announced that Beeline Kazakhstan has begun construction of the new Hyper Cloud data center in Almaty—an advanced Tier III-certified facility designed to anchor Kazakhstan’s sovereign cloud, AI compute, and enterprise digital services ecosystem. The investment positions Kazakhstan for the next phase of digital growth by providing domestic, secure, and scalable compu...
Kyivstar and Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation Select Googl...
Kyivstar and Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation Select Google Gemma as the Foundation for Ukraine’s National LLM Dubai and Kyiv, December 1, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), announces that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), together with the WINWIN AI Center of Excellence under Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, has selected Google Gemma as the base model for developing Ukrainian LLM, Ukraine’s own national large language model (“LLM”), leveraging Google’s Vertex AI infrastructure for computing power. As a strategic partner in this project, Kyivstar will operationally lead...
- Chris Hoare
Global EM Telcos & Towers Blow out Q3 results drive another great mon...
EM Telco earnings season was extremely strong, and with 8 of our 10 picks reporting this month, our picks rose 6.8% on average in November and are now up 80% YTD. With Singtel having strongly outperformed, Bharti we swap the latter in for the former; this note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space.
GSMA brings M360 Eurasia 2026 to Samarkand in partnership with VEON’s ...
GSMA brings M360 Eurasia 2026 to Samarkand in partnership with VEON’s Beeline Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Digital Technologies Doha, November 26, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announced today that Beeline Uzbekistan will once again partner with the GSMA and the Ministry of Digital Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan to hold GSMA M360 Eurasia 2026. This next edition of the region’s flagship digital policy and industry forum will take place for the first time in Samarkand on May 20–21, 2026. M360 Eurasia’s return to Uzbekistan for a s...
VEON’s QazCode and MeetKai Sign Agreement to Power National LLM Traini...
VEON’s QazCode and MeetKai Sign Agreement to Power National LLM Training and Local-Language Agentic Services Across VEON Markets Doha, Astana and Los Angeles, November 25, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announced that QazCode, VEON’s software company, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the sovereign AI firm MeetKai to develop and train next-generation large language models that will enable deployment of local-language agentic AI services across VEON’s operating markets. This strategic sovereign partnership is designed to accelerate...
Kyivstar Launches Starlink Direct to Cell Satellite Connectivity in Uk...
Kyivstar Launches Starlink Direct to Cell Satellite Connectivity in Ukraine Today’s Launch Makes Ukraine the First Country in Europe Where Starlink Direct to Cell is Available to Customers Dubai and Kyiv, November 24, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announces today that Kyivstar Group Ltd. (“Kyivstar”) (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), VEON’s digital operator in Ukraine, has launched Starlink’s Direct to Cell satellite technology for its customers in Ukraine. Powered by Starlink’s Direct to Cell constellation, the service will enable all Ukrainians to stay conne...
VEON Commences USD 100 million Buyback Program
VEON Commences USD 100 million Buyback Program Dubai, November 17, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or the “Company”), announces that it has commenced the buyback program (the “Program”) announced on November 10, 2025. The Program authorized by VEON’s Board enables the Company to buy back ADSs and/or outstanding bonds in an amount up to USD 100 million. The final allocation between equity and debt securities will be determined by prevailing market conditions. VEON views the current trading levels of its equity as materially undervaluing the Company’s stron...
VEON Wins Corporate Governance Awards for Kyivstar Listing and Technol...
VEON Wins Corporate Governance Awards for Kyivstar Listing and Technology Leadership in Corporate Governance Dubai, November 12, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), is proud to announce that it has received two prestigious honors at the IR Magazine Corporate Governance Awards 2025: Best Governance Around a Corporate Transaction – recognizing VEON’s exemplary governance in the successful listing of Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV), Ukraine’s leading digital operator (“Kyivstar”), in August 2025; andBest Use of Technology in Corporate Governance – highlig...
- Chris Hoare
VEON (Buy, $100, +130%) [Sponsored Research] Q3 25 Quick Take: Strong...
VEON printed a strong EBITDA beat, ahead of us by 10% on account of strong cost outs in Pakistan, continued momentum in Kyivstar partly supported by its Uklon acquisition and a tax relief in Kazakhstan. As a result, EBITDA guidance was upgraded again and in USD terms, it is aligned with our forecasts.
VEON Raises 2025 Outlook, Robust Revenue and EBITDA Momentum, Direct D...
VEON Raises 2025 Outlook, Robust Revenue and EBITDA Momentum, Direct Digital Revenue up 63% YoY VEON Raises 2025 Outlook, Robust Revenue and EBITDA Momentum, Direct Digital Revenue up 63% YoY Dubai, November 10, 2025 VEON 3Q25 Highlights Total revenue growth of 7.5% year-on-year (“YoY”) to USD 1,115 mn. EBITDA growth of 19.7% YoY to USD 524 mn Direct digital revenue growth of 63.1% YoY to USD 198 mn, representing 17.8% of Group revenue. Financial services revenues grew 32.6% to $107.5 mn Total cash, cash equivalents and deposits of USD 1,666 mn, including USD 653 mn at Headquarters; net ...
Kyivstar reports 20% top-line and EBITDA growth as digital rises to 12...
Kyivstar reports 20% top-line and EBITDA growth as digital rises to 12% of revenues Kyivstar reports 20% top-line and EBITDA growth as digital rises to 12% of revenues 10 November 2025. KYIV, Ukraine Kyivstar Group Ltd (“Kyivstar”, the “Group”) 3Q25 unaudited results highlights Total revenue grew 20.9% YoY to UAH 12.3 bn (+19.8% to USD 297 mn).EBITDA grew 21.5% YoY to UAH 7.1 bn (20.4% to USD 171 mn).Adjusted net profit was USD 73 mn. This metric excludes the non-cash charge of USD 162 mn recognized in 3Q25 related to the Kyivstar listing. Without adjustments, loss for 3Q25 was USD 89 mn...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Partners with Starlink Direct to Cell to Lau...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Partners with Starlink Direct to Cell to Launch Satellite Connectivity to Kazakhstan, with Support from Kazakhstan Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development Almaty and Washington, DC, November 6, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announces that Beeline Kazakhstan, its digital operator in Kazakhstan, is partnering with Starlink Direct to Cell to make essential connectivity accessible across Kazakhstan, including in remote areas not covered by terrestrial networks. At a trilateral meeting held during the offi...
VEON Appoints Sebastian Rice as General Counsel
VEON Appoints Sebastian Rice as General Counsel Vitaly Shmakov promoted to the newly created Chief Investment Officer role Dubai, November 6, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or the “Group”), today announces the appointment of Sebastian Rice as General Counsel of the Group, effective January 1, 2026. Sebastian will succeed the Group’s Acting General Counsel Vitaly Shmakov, who has been appointed as Chief Investment Officer, leading the Group’s mergers & acquisitions function. Anand Ramachandran, VEON’s Chief Corporate Development Officer, will continue in...
- Chris Hoare
Global EM Telcos & Towers Back to Black: NSR GEM Top-10 November ‘25 ...
Our portfolio of Top Picks was higher again in October, and now up 69% ytd. This month we make no changes to our top picks. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space.
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