Real Madrid has 17,000 tickets for the Champions League final to be held in the Ukrainian city of Kiev. In addition to these, many other Spaniards will attend the final of the best club competition in the world on their own. They will all have an added problem to the long trip or the expensive hotels and it is none other than the absence of free roaming as Ukraine is not part of the agreement that came into force last year. For all of them, we have compiled the prices and mobile rates to browse in Ukraine.
The free roaming only applies to:
Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland (including the Aland Islands), France (including Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, French Guiana, Réunion and Mayotte), Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (including Madeira and Azores), the United Kingdom (including Gibraltar), the Czech Republic, Romania and Sweden.
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Which leaves out:
Andorra, Switzerland, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Island of Guernsey, Island of Jersey, Macedonia, Isle of Man, Moldova, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine.
Mobile rates in Ukraine: prepaid SIM and roaming price
In principle, we have two options to use our smartphone to talk and navigate in Ukraine. The first is to deal with the roaming rates offered by Spanish operators and the second is buy a prepaid SIM to use during the days of our stay. We are going to focus on this last option, since the first one is solved with a simple call or consult the operator’s website.
Kyivstar
- 500MB to browse for 55 UAH (1.8 euros to change)
- 3GB to browse for 75 UAH (2.4 euros to change)
- 6GB to browse for 95 UAH (3.10 euros to change)
- Unlimited data to browse for 155 UAH (5 euros to change)
The SIM card has an initial price that starts at 0.80 euros to change.
Lifecell
- 10GB to browse for 65 UAH (2.3 euros to change)
- 20GB to browse for 90 UAH (2.9 euros to change)
Vodafone Ukraine
- XS network with 2GB to browse for 55 UAH (1.80 euros to change)
- Red S with 5GB to browse for 65 UAH (2.3 euros to change)
- Unlimited network with unlimited data for 90 UAH (2.9 euros to change)
3Mob
- Green with 1GB to browse for 10 UAH (0.32 euros to change)
- Unlimited Internet with unlimited data for 352.50 UAH (11.4 euros to change)
Lycamobile Ukraine
- 1GB to browse for 150 UAH (4.87 euros to change)
- 2GB to browse for 200 UAH (6.50 euros to change)
- 4GB to browse for 380 UAH (12.3 euros to change)
The coverage of the main operators in Ukraine can be consulted at this link, both at the 3G and 4G level. Only Kyivstar, Lifecell and Vodafone offer 4G connectivity, while the rest of the operators must make do with 3G. In fact, Lycamobile Ukraine uses the 3G networks of 3Mob, one of the operators that we have collected above.
SIM cards are not registered in Ukraine, which implies that we do not have to give our personal data when buying them. This happened in Spain many years ago, but it hasn’t been like that for a long time and both prepaid and contract are perfectly documented. Of course, this may be the last big event in which this happens since the government plans to end this practice in the fall.
SIM cards can be bought almost anywhere and once on the ground we will see dozens of posters around us in small kiosks that will sell us one of these SIM cards to navigate. We may also find them at the airport itself when arriving in the city of Kiev. We must always ask for “pre-paid”.
