4 Dec 2012

Rostelecom starts testing elements of 3G network in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, the first call was made ​​from a base station 3G, installed by Rostelecom. Starting the third generation network in commercial operation is scheduled for the third quarter of 2013. Now Rostelecom is building third-generation networks in 27 regions of Russia. Total scheduled to install a 8000 base stations 3G. The results of the tenders the main suppliers of equipment and solutions for 2G/3G were chosen Ericsson and Huawei. During the construction of third-generation networks using modern technology HSPA +, which provides data transfer speeds up to 21 Mb / s (the first 3G network provides up to 3, 6 MB / s), so it is often referred to as 3G +. Recall that in late November 2012 the first mobile phone network of the third generation of Rostelecom was put into operation in the Irkutsk region, where the child works operator Baikalwestcom (IOO). It is also worth mentioning that Rostelecom and its subsidiaries (HCC IOO UCC, Sky Link, Volgograd GSM, ICCO, ICE) offers mobile services in 59 regions of Russia, with more than 13.5 million subscribers.

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