The operator has invested more than 5 billion rubles in the creation of a 5G-ready network in Moscow
Give the supertown supernet!
Under this slogan "Beeline" makes an unprecedented modernization of its base stations in Moscow.
Vasil Lacanich, General Director of VimpelCom, told about why the operator is investing billions of rubles in this large-scale project.
“We see that today the nature of consumption has changed a lot,” explained the top manager of the cellular operator. - If, until recently, the leading service was a voice, now calls are becoming a secondary service, and data transmission becomes the primary one.
And this volume is growing at a frantic pace.
For several years, the average amount of traffic per person increases significantly, and the consumption of leading customers reaches 1.5 gigabytes per day and this is already a mass phenomenon. At the same time, mobile devices are rapidly evolving.
With the arrival of iPhones, an HD screen appeared, screens with 4K resolution replaced it, and soon smartphones with a higher pixel density will appear.
In addition, other fashionable gadgets such as virtual reality will be developed.
This means people have very demanding network devices right now.
And if today the consumption of subscribers requires speeds of 8-14 megabits, then in the near future we need 25 megabits per user.
We stand on the threshold of a new revolution and want to be ready for it.
One of the main driving forces of this revolution are subscribers "professing" unlimited tariffs.
In Moscow, the growth of such tariffs occurs exponentially. Previously, Anlim was a specific service, it was used by the elected and the volume was a very small percentage of total sales.
Today, unlimited tariffs account for more than 60 percent of the operator’s sales and this figure is constantly growing.
Beeline is not without reason called itself the best unlimited operator.
In order to bring together all the users of the Unlim tariff in Moscow, it will be necessary to fill 6 stadiums the size of Luzhniki.
But at the same time, it is clear that none of this army of subscribers is morally ready to consume a lot of slow Internet.
But on unlimited tariffs consumption is 5 times (!) Higher than on others.
According to experts, with such a huge increase in consumption, the required amount of traffic cannot be provided to 4G technology in just a few years.
Creating a 5G network is a necessary condition for the Internet to be fast, easily accessible, high-quality and uninterrupted.
Large-scale modernization began in 2018, now a new network is built more than 80 percent.
The remaining old base stations will be replaced with new ones by the end of this summer.
Beeline’s partner in this project is Huawei, which manufactures, installs and will service it.
At the first stage of modernization (here we are talking about replacing old equipment with new), Beeline invested about 5 billion rubles in its supernetwork. Approximately the same amount will be spent on expansion - thousands of new base stations will be built in Moscow, since a more dense network is required to launch 5G.
In addition, the new network will become the basic component of the Internet of Things.
A good example of such a device is the Tesla unmanned electric vehicle.
In order to constantly collect data about your movement, use the navigation and media resource, Tesla needs several gigabytes per day.
So much traffic does not consume any people.
But the era of the Internet of things is not far off.
Beeline promises to complete the second phase of the technological modernization of the network, as a result of which it will be almost ready for the transition to the fifth-generation standard in 2020.
ONLY NUMBERS
- The capacity of mobile communication networks should grow 10 times that people could watch as many videos as they want.
- the volume of mobile Internet consumption per subscriber increased 4 times.
- more than 85% of the Beeline network in Moscow is already 5G-ready.
This allows you to increase the speed of the mobile Internet 3 times.
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