Public joint-stock company Ukrtelecom will not transfer its infrastructure, subscribers and the debt on services in Sevastopol to Sevastopol Telecom company, and has asked the local authorities not to speculate on the issue, the press service of the operator reported on Thursday 18.
Earlier, statements by the local authorities appeared in Sevastopol printed media, claiming that the Crimean staff of Ukrtelecom had allegedly transfered to Sevastopol Telecom. Ukrtelecom believes that the staff of the company are being used for manipulations, and the statements of the Sevastopol authorities are populist in nature.
‘Ukrtelecom is not going to transfer its infrastructure, subscribers and the debt for services to the Sevastopol Telecom company. During the whole period the company has honestly, in full and without delays paid salaries to all employees, and it plans to do this in the future if no one interferes in its economic operations, and the company will provide a whole range of telecommunications services to its clients in full. Thus, the operator is doing everything to retain social stability in families of its employees and the peninsula in general,’ reads the report of the Ukrainian operator.
The company called on authorities of Sevastopol, representatives of Russian structures and other newly created structures of the peninsula to be more responsible when making statements and decisions that concern social guarantees and the employment of the operator’s staff, telecommunications infrastructure and the provision of communications to residents of the peninsula.
According to Ukrtelecom, the operator’s staff in Crimea amounts to some 2,000 people.
