Free city Wi-Fi appeared in 15 more metropolitan sports institutions

The city Wi-Fi network is a core wireless infrastructure for the development of services and services within the framework of the Smart City concept, providing residents and guests of the capital with free Internet access.

2024: Moscow buys traffic filtering systems in public Wi-Fi networks for 1 billion rubles

In July 2024, it became known that Moscow significantly increased the volume of purchases of traffic filtering systems for public Wi-Fi networks. The total amount of contracts for providing access to street Wi-Fi with traffic analysis and filtering exceeded 1 billion rubles, which is twice as much as in 2023. Read more here.

2023

The advent of Wi-Fi in 15 metropolitan sports institutions

Free urban Wi-Fi appeared in 15 more metropolitan sports institutions. More than 160 access points to the wireless network were installed there, Moscow_WiFi_Free on June 8, 2023, they told the metropolitan Department of Information Technology.

The city Wi-Fi network began to work in the Moscow Center for Martial Arts, the Yantar Stadium, the Yuzhny Pool and the Vostochny Sports Complex of the Moscow Sports School of the Olympic Reserve, as well as in the On the Coast Aquastudium. Access to the Internet here is provided by 64 hot spots.

Also, about 100 points of access to free Internet appeared in the regional sports complexes "Luch," "Yauza," "Rechnoy," "Red Lighthouse," "Polar Star," "Maryina Roshcha," "Parus," "Lianozovo," "Academic," "Medvedkovo Arena," as well as in the fitness center "Yasnogorsky."

The speed of urban Wi-Fi in sports institutions is at least 10 megabits per second, this is enough to use the usual. Internet services For example, visitors will be able to use special applications for training, watch videos with exercise techniques or analysis of game situations, as well as stay in touch with loved ones. The city will continue to develop a network of free Wi-Fi in sports institutions for the comfort and convenience of visitors, - said Alexander Kharitonov, head of the City Wi-Fi project of the Department. information technology Moscow

Connecting South River Station

The South River Station was connected to the city's Wi-Fi network. In the building of the station, updated after a large-scale reconstruction, 12 access points to free wireless Internet were installed. This was announced on May 22, 2023 by the Moscow Department of Information Technologies (DIT).

Moscow expands the city's Wi-Fi network so residents can have free access Internet to virtually any part of the city. Now wireless Internet has appeared at the South River Station, which recently opened after reconstruction and is already gaining popularity among Muscovites and guests of the capital. This will make it even more comfortable to spend time, quickly receive information and stay in touch with friends and loved ones, - said Alexander Kharitonov, project manager of the City Wi-Fi project of the Moscow Department of Information Technologies.

{{quote "We are expanding the wireless Internet network on the transport infrastructure of the capital. Passengers can connect to Wi-Fi on metro trains, buses, electric buses, trams. Thanks to the development of a free city network Moscow_WiFi_Free Internet access has appeared at bus stations and bus stations. In 2020, access points appeared at the updated North River Station. And now there is a free city Wi-Fi network at the South River Station, which opened after reconstruction at the end of April 2023. We will continue to create comfortable conditions for our guests and passengers, develop convenient services for the task of the Mayor of Moscow, - said Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Government for Transport. }}

The Moscow_WiFi_Free network is also available at all bus stations and bus stations in the capital. You can use it at the Central Bus Station, at the international bus stations Salaryevo, South Gate and North Gate, as well as at the bus stations Varshavskaya and Orekhovo.

In total, in the capital, as of May 2023, more than 22 thousand connection points to the free city network are available. They are located in parks, cultural and sports institutions, bus stations, as well as on central streets within the Sadovoy and Third Transport Ring.

You can see where there is a free Internet access point nearby on the interactive map on the portal mos.ru.

To connect to the free Internet in the city, you need to select a Moscow_WiFi_Free from the list of available networks. After that, you need to go through identification in the browser using an account on the mos.ru or by SMS message, and then click the "Log in to the Internet" button.

Re-authorization is not needed to connect to wireless Internet throughout the city. In accordance with the requirement of Russian legislation, users must undergo re-identification every three months.

2022: City Wi-Fi network in Moscow has become one of the largest in the world in 9 years

The city Wi-Fi network in Moscow has become one of the largest in the world in 9 years. This was announced in early October 2022 by the deputy mayor of the capital Natalya Sergunina. According to him, there are more than 24 thousand access points to urban Wi-Fi in Moscow.

At the same time, the coating is constantly expanding. Wireless Internet works on many streets within the Sadovoy and even the Third Transport Ring, and in almost a thousand different objects and institutions - from libraries and parks to student hostels, "she said.

City Wi-Fi network in Moscow has become one of the largest in the world

Sergunina noted that in 2022, about 800 new access points appeared in the capital, and the volume of traffic exceeded 8 PB. The city Wi-Fi began to work throughout the central part of VDNKh - from the arch of the main entrance to the Industrial Square and the Vostok launch vehicle. Also in 2022, seven parks, 10 theaters and 42 other cultural and sports institutions were connected to the network.

As explained in the press service of the Moscow mayor's office, you can see where there is Wi-Fi nearby on an interactive map on the portal mos.ru. At the same time, the user can move and connect to the wireless network in different parts of the city without re-authorization during the day.

To connect to the free Internet, you need to select Moscow_WiFi_Free in the list of available networks and pass identification using your mos.ru account or via SMS. This must be done every three months in accordance with the requirements of the law.

Telecommunications expert Sergei Polovnikov says you can use city Wi-Fi to save mobile traffic. He explained that a small amount of mobile traffic is consumed when communicating in chats or watching news feeds or social networks. The lion's share of mobile traffic consumption is consumed when watching various videos. To do this, he advised using Wi-Fi.^[1]

2019: Choice of a single operator of the Moscow Wi-Fi network

At the end of January 2019, Maxima Telecom was chosen as the single operator of the Moscow Wi-Fi network. The company won the competition, stating that it would fulfill the project for 149.5 million rubles. A competitor - Netbynet (controlled by MegaFon) - asked for 160.6 million rubles for its services.

The victory of Maxima Telecom in this competition was reported by Kommersant with reference to the public procurement portal. It is necessary to complete the work under the terms of the contract in the first half of 2020.

A single operator of the capital's Wi-Fi has been chosen

As the publication was told in the Moscow Department of Information Technologies, a single operator will provide the possibility of potential integration of up to 25 thousand access points in the city free Wi-FI network. By the end of January 2019, it has more than 15 thousand hot spots. In particular, Wi-Fi operates in 40 parks, libraries, houses of culture, cinemas, at the most popular public transport stops near metro stations and the Moscow Central Ring (MCC), bus stations and railway platforms.

Maxima Telecom will have to ensure the collection, storage, analysis of monitoring data and user traffic using Big Data and DPI technologies, as well as provide reports to the city authorities. Purchasing documents explain that DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) is a technology for deep analysis of data traffic and end-user profiles. The press service of the Moscow Department of Information Technology explained to Kommersant that this is "a standard function of any communication service," and such an analysis "is necessary to predict the socio-economic development of the city."

Previously, contractors for servicing the Wi-Fi network on the streets, parks and museums were Prestige-Internet (part of Er-Telecom Holding), Akado, MGTS and VimpelCom. By the beginning of 2019, all public networks will unite on the Maxima Telecom platform MT_FREE.^[2]

2017: Selection of contractors to deploy free Wi-Fi in Moscow

In October 2017, the Moscow government held a competition to deploy free wireless Internet access in the capital. The costs of the project will amount to almost 830 million rubles, Vedomosti writes with reference to public procurement data.

We are talking about three categories of networks - on the streets, in Moscow houses of culture, as well as in universities, museums and parks.

The tender for the installation of 2 thousand street access points was won by the provider "Prestige-Internet" (Enforta brand, part of). Er-Telecom Holding The contract with him will be concluded in the amount of 333 million rubles.

Moscow will spend 830 million rubles on free Wi-Fi

In 2016, Enforta launched a network of 1,100 access points in the capital. By October 2017, the company provides coverage of 64% of the territory inside the Boulevard Ring and 30% inside the Garden Ring.

Part of the tender for the creation of public Wi-Fi networks was also won by the Zyfra One operator: for 348 million rubles, he will conduct Wi-Fi in houses of culture. In addition, several more companies will provide Internet access in universities, museums and parks: VimpelCom (15.6 million rubles), MGTS (54.3 million rubles) and Setel (79 million rubles).

The free Wi-Fi network, due in the capital ahead of the World Cup in 2018, is designed to help foreign tourists. Their influx is expected to increase the load on cellular networks, and public Wi-Fi will allow you to take over part of it. Wi-Fi can also be useful to city services, traffic police and structures responsible for paying for parking lots.

Taking into account the costs of building a network, renting places for access points, as well as provided that the city Wi-Fi should work efficiently and at high speed, the Moscow government's fee for free access is even slightly lower than market prices, said Iskratelecom CEO Alkhas Mirzabekov.^[3]

See also

• Moscow Smart city# City Wi-Fi and mobile Internet

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