Expocentre is the first facility in Moscow where the 3G network from MTS operates Mobile operator MTS today announced the launch of the third phase of its third generation network (3G) in Moscow in commercial operation, which is located in the Expocenter exhibition complex.
The corresponding permission was issued today by the Office of Rossvyazkomnadzor in Moscow and the Moscow Region.
The operator reports that a fragment of the 3G network covers all the pavilions of the exhibition center on Krasnaya Presnya. Subscribers located in the pavilions of Expocentre will be provided with the possibility of high-speed Internet access, up to 3.6 Mbit per second, at any point of the 3G network.
In the near future, MTS is also awaiting the receipt of permits for commercial operation of 3G networks in two cities of the Moscow Region - Orekhovo-Zuyevo and Noginsk.
MTS promises that by the end of summer the 3G network of MTS will be in 35 major business centers, transport hubs and public places of the capital, including the airport complex "Domodedovo" in the area "Moscow City" Crocus City Center international trade, business center "Novinsky", "Alfa-Arbat-Center", "Lotte Plaza" shopping malls CUM, "Atrium", "European", "Moscow", "Gorbushkin yardВ», IKEA. In addition, MTS will provide 3G communication offices of the largest enterprises in Moscow, including JSC "Russian Railways", "Sberbank of Russia", AFK "System", "Sibur", "Wimm-Bill-Dann" and others.
MTS received permission to launch the “new generation” network also at stations and sections of the Moscow metro. Sokolnicheskaya branch of the Moscow metro will be the first where MTS will launch a 3G network in test operation.
On May 8, 2008, MTS received UMTS radio frequencies of 2.1 GHz for base stations of cellular networks of the “third generation” in Moscow, Moscow Region, as well as in a number of regions of the Central region of the Russian Federation.
A source