The EDGE Technology (Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution) ensures high speed data communications. Implementation of the EDGE technology enables life:) to provide existing services in more efficient way and to open opportunities for offering new services. The EDGE technology implemented in life:) network will enable connection speed up to 236 Kb per second, that is 5 times faster than GPRS.

With the deployment of EDGE in Ukraine, life:) users will have the opportunity to experience new range of innovational services like high speed internet access, streaming video/audio, video download etc. As for the existing services - Internet, WAP and MMS - they will also become much more effective and attractive for life:) users. Business life:) users requiring high speed mobile internet access and users of high-end EDGE enabled mobile terminals will be the first to benefit from EDGE technology. life:) will offer services that would bring its subscribers to higher level of mobility and productivity.

EDGE will help to approach the future and will bring Mobile Internet into reality. EDGE can also be viewed as a migration technology from 2.5G to 3G that is 2.75G. Mobile users of life:) will have the opportunity to be the first in Ukraine to experience 3G services. Such offerings will also help life:) to better understand user expectations for high-end services. For the mobile network of life:) EDGE will be an infrastructure expansion and migration step to 3G.

"EDGE is the migration technology to the 3rd generation networks and one of the most important innovations brought by life:) to the Ukrainian mobile communications market. We are sure that this new technology implemented in Ukraine for the first time will make the lives and businesses of the Ukrainian life:) subscribers more mobile, richer, more interesting and progressive. EDGE is one of the life:) numerous present innovations and a clear evidence of those to come", said Tolga Gediko?lu, Chief Marketing Officer of life:).

According to the strategy of life:), EDGE based services will be available in largest cities in heavy data usage areas and city centers. Beginning from 25th of March EDGE is already available in centers of Kiyv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovs'k. life:) subscribers with activated cell info will see the message "life:) EDGE" on their mobile phones in the places with available coverage. EDGE coverage will further increase inline with the growth of GSM coverage of life:).

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