Analysis of activity and factors of development of fixed telephony in Ukraine

The article analyses the Ukrainian market of fixed telephony, which demonstrates reduction of users and income. It reveals that the service has not yet achieved its saturation, which the data of density of telephony testifies to, moreover, there is an irregularity of their territorial provision. The article marks out importance of the telecommunication sphere and communication enterprises for the national economy, need of their stable functioning within the framework of development of any country and provision of the population with accessible services of the relevant quality and also a possibility of getting them independently of geographical location for increase of quality of life of the population in the nearest future. This, in its turn, justifies urgency of study of this problem under conditions of the stagnating market of fixed telephony both in Ukraine and in the world. The article conducts analysis of the modern state of the market and identifies main factors that influence the fixed telephony service, establishes close links between factors of influence and income from the service, which would allow future development of stabilisation measures directed at sustainable development of the fixed telephony.