SIM card mobile operator of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic "Phoenix" will go on General sale a week Later, said Fins news communications Minister of DPR Victor Yatsenko.

"A week later, the sale will occur SIM card for our mobile operator. They will be sold throughout the Republic, " said Yatsenko.

How many cards will be allocated for sale in the Ministry did not explain. According to them, currently the services of mobile operator DNR "Phoenix" in the test mode are 6, 5 thousand clients.

Yatsenko had previously reported that the authorities of the Republic in the summer of this year you plan to go in the country's own mobile communications. First has been several times malfunction of a different operator, MTS. According to Yatsenko, cell phones didn't work, because the Ukrainian Military in the area of Mariupol damaged last incumbent cable.

at rallies in early April of this past year the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup, announced the development of " people's republics ". After held in may referendum of the Republic declared its sovereignty and later formed the Union of " new Russia ", put together their own authorities. The second of November in DND and LNR elections of heads of republics and deputies of the parliaments. Kiev DND and LNR will not recognize.

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