Mobile cellular operator CJSC "Ukrainian Radio Systems" (trademark WellCOM) has begun providing GSM-900 mobile cellular services in Lutsk and Chernihiv. This was reported by the company's press service. Lutsk became the twentieth city where the company has deployed its network. After this significant event for the company, since WellCOM had previously committed to building a network in the 20 largest cities of Ukraine during 2004, all that remained for it to obtain the full title of "national communications operator of Ukraine" was to cover just 6 regional centers - Donetsk, Uzhhorod, Chernivtsi, Rivne, Sumy, Cherkasy. CJSC "Ukrainian Radio Systems" began at the end of 2003 carrying out work on building a nationwide GSM-900 mobile communications network in all regional centers of Ukraine. At the same time, the declared investment volume for deploying the network amounts to approximately $100 million. In December 2003, the first "non-Kyiv network" was launched in test mode in Dnipropetrovsk, and the company began full-scale launch of networks in the regions and expansion into all regional centers in July 2004. If speaking about the prospects for the development of the company's network in the near future, the company does not rule out that by the end of 2004 the WellCOM network will be available in Rivne and Donetsk. However, despite such large-scale network deployment and the installation of base stations in practically all the largest cities of Ukraine, the company today carries out subscriber connections only in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk, without showing any advertising or marketing activity in the new "developed regions." According to an informed source, the company's such "sluggish activity" of the operator is connected with the fact that today the company is trying to negotiate with several of the largest Ukrainian mobile phone sales dealers in order to promote its offer for new subscribers across all of Ukraine at once, rather than locally, as is happening now. CJSC "Ukrainian Radio Systems" was created in 1998. The company operates in the GSM-900 standard and has a license to provide services throughout the entire territory of Ukraine. The number of subscribers of CJSC "Ukrainian Radio Systems" is 47 thousand people. CJSC "Ukrainian Radio Systems" ended 2003 with a net loss of UAH 57 million (this is for the attention of those who groundlessly claim that mobile communications operators receive superprofits).