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VEON Ltd. reports developments as a Nasdaq-listed digital operator providing connectivity and digital services through mobile, fixed-line and broadband networks. Company news commonly covers operating and financial results, integrated annual reporting, governance actions from annual general meetings, ADS program updates and capital allocation policies.
Recurring operating updates include Kyivstar activity in Ukraine, Banglalink activity in Bangladesh, satellite-enabled connectivity agreements with Starlink, network resilience investments and the expansion of digital services such as healthcare, ride-hailing, delivery and enterprise connectivity. These updates describe how VEON combines telecom infrastructure with consumer and business digital platforms across its markets.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) announced that, effective at the open of trading on December 18, 2025, its American Depositary Shares were transferred from the Nasdaq Capital Market to the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Nasdaq’s highest listing tier. The company also noted recent inclusions in the S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) and the MSCI Ukraine Index. VEON said the moves improve visibility and accessibility for its shares, support broader engagement with institutional investors and keep ADS ticker, CUSIP, ISIN and shareholder rights unchanged after the transfer.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) announced that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW) has acquired 100% of LLC SUNVIN 11, adding 12.9 MW of solar generation capacity to its energy resilience investments on December 16, 2025.
Electricity from the solar facility will be supplied to Ukraine’s national grid under applicable market and regulatory frameworks. Kyivstar said the acquisition is its first investment in renewable energy, aims to partly hedge against energy cost volatility and improve operational stability, and is expected to incrementally reduce Kyivstar’s carbon footprint.
The deal advances Kyivstar’s and VEON’s pledge to invest USD 1 billion into Ukraine (2023–2027) across connectivity, energy resilience, and digital businesses.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) and its operating company Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV) will release selected consolidated financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025 on Monday, March 16, 2026.
The results will be published at 08:00 GST (05:00 CET, 00:00 EST). VEON will host a results conference call on the same day, March 16, 2026, and Kyivstar will hold its call the following day, March 17, 2026. Exact call times, webcast links, access details, and the Q&A submission platform will be provided in subsequent releases closer to the date.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) announced that Beeline Kazakhstan completed the first-ever voice call, SMS and WhatsApp messages via Starlink Direct to Cell in Central Asia on December 15, 2025, using standard 4G smartphones and Beeline SIM cards.
The field test in Akmolinskaya region demonstrated practical interoperability between Starlink satellites and Beeline’s terrestrial mobile network and showed satellite-enabled mobile connectivity can extend coverage in remote areas. Beeline plans to introduce Starlink Direct to Cell SMS services in 2026, subject to regulatory approval.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) announced on December 11, 2025 that Banglalink received permission from Bangladesh Bank to operate as a payment service provider in Bangladesh.
As a regulated provider, Banglalink will offer instant person-to-person transfers, remittances, utility and government bill payments, merchant and e-commerce transactions, and salary/disbursement services, with later support for micro-savings and insurance premium payments. The company said the platform will include a strong security framework and aims to expand digital financial inclusion in a market where 72% of the population remained outside the traditional banking system in 2023.
VEON reported 42.1 million monthly active users of digital financial services as of September 30, 2025, a 25% year-on-year increase.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) was recognized at the World Communication Awards 2025 in London across three categories for advances in financial inclusion, resilient connectivity and digital transformation.
JazzCash won Gold in Beyond Connectivity; Kyivstar won Silver for Satellite Telecommunications; and Jazz won Silver for Best Digital Transformation Programme (joint with Huawei).
JazzCash reported 20.6 million monthly active users and a 750,000 merchant base as of September 30, 2025. Kyivstar launched SMS via Starlink Direct to Cell for 4G smartphones to strengthen connectivity in disrupted areas.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) announced inclusion in two major global equity indices, strengthening investor visibility and institutional access. VEON was added to the S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) after the September 2025 rebalance and was selected for the MSCI Ukraine Index in November 2025. The company tied these additions to strong operational performance, resilient exposure to the Ukrainian economy through Kyivstar, and recent strategic developments including Kyivstar’s successful Nasdaq listing.
The company said the index inclusions broaden its reach to global institutional investors and support its transformation into a digital operator while it continues to engage with index providers, analysts, rating agencies, and exchanges to improve investor understanding.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) announced that Beeline Kazakhstan has begun construction of a Tier III Hyper Cloud data center in Almaty to serve as a sovereign cloud, AI compute, and enterprise digital-services hub. The facility will keep customer data within Kazakhstan to meet national security and data‑sovereignty requirements and will offer IaaS, PaaS, BaaS, GPU-as-a-Service, and Security-as-a-Service for SMEs, developers, enterprises, and public-sector organisations. The project targets a end‑of‑2026 go‑live and aims to provide full-service redundancy inside Beeline Kazakhstan’s infrastructure, strengthening reliability, security, and local AI compute capacity.
The announcement cites Kazakhstan’s IT sector growth—more than 18,000 companies operating, a 16% increase in three years—as context for increased domestic cloud demand.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) said Kyivstar and Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation selected Google Gemma as the foundation for a national Ukrainian large language model (LLM), using Google Vertex AI for computing.
Kyivstar will operationally lead model development, optimize Gemma for Ukrainian, refine the tokenizer, and train on curated Ukrainian datasets while keeping sensitive national data stored and processed in Ukraine. The LLM aims to cover dialects, terminology, history and serve government, healthcare, finance and private-sector use cases.
VEON (Nasdaq: VEON) announced that Beeline Uzbekistan will partner with the GSMA and Uzbekistan's Ministry of Digital Technologies to host GSMA M360 Eurasia 2026 in Samarkand on May 20–21, 2026. This marks the conference’s return to Uzbekistan for a second consecutive year and aligns with Uzbekistan’s Digital Uzbekistan 2030 strategy. Organizers say Samarkand’s historic Eurasian position supports regional dialogue on digital cooperation, AI-driven development, innovation, and investment.
The event is part of the GSMA’s M360 series and will convene senior mobile and adjacent-industry executives to discuss policy, connectivity, and digital transformation.