Russian operator MTS (Cellular TeleSystems) has accomplished a vital stage of upgrading its cell community within the Moscow Metro, leading to a 40 p.c year-on-year enhance within the common web velocity on the MTS Community in December, accompanied by a one-third progress in information site visitors quantity. In an official launch on Friday, MTS said that it has ensured steady protection of high-speed cell web in tunnels, lobbies, and crossings on all traces and metro stations.

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Community Modernisation

In line with MTS, the community modernisation concerned the phased laying of radiating cable in tunnels throughout the MTS space of accountability and the set up of recent tools. Following the two-year improve, MTS elevated the size of its radiating cable to nearly 200 km by the top of 2023 and put in about 700 extra base station blocks. This growth included 14 new metro stations opened this 12 months on the Bolshaya Ring, Solntsevskaya, and Lublinsko-Dmitrovskaya traces, as reported by the corporate.

Enabled Service Aggregation

MTS famous that, to attain most information switch charges, it enabled Service Aggregation (CA) by combining all LTE frequency bands, together with 800/1800/2100/2600 MHz. This resulted in most information switch speeds of as much as 500 Mbps at stations and as much as 250 Mbps in tunnels.

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“About 2.8 million of our subscribers use cell Web within the Moscow metro every single day. For them, entry to the Web means the chance to spend time on the street with profit: studying information or a guide, exchanging info, paying for purchases, listening to music, and even watching motion pictures in top quality. Our customers are actively benefiting from these alternatives,” stated MTS.

Future Enlargement

The telco additional said, “In line with our forecasts, site visitors will proceed to develop each resulting from Web consumption and as a result of improvement of the subway itself. We observe plans to broaden the transport infrastructure, and in 2024, we set ourselves the duty of making certain the connection of the brand new Troitskaya line station, in addition to optimising the prevailing community in sure sections, which would require non-standard options.”

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Surge in Knowledge Visitors Volumes

The Russian operator additionally shared insights into the information site visitors quantity, noting that in December 2023, the weekly information site visitors quantity within the MTS Community within the Moscow subway reached a historic quantity of 1100 TB. This exceeds the weekly Web site visitors in cities with a inhabitants of one million, similar to Voronezh or Nizhny Novgorod, and even whole areas, for instance, Smolensk, Kursk, or Lipetsk areas.

With the elevated growth and modernisation of infrastructure, voice site visitors has additionally improved, with voice site visitors utilizing VoLTE (Voice over LTE) growing by nearly 60 p.c in 2023, MTS stated.