| Customers: Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) Moscow; Telecommunications and Communications Contractors: Ericsson Project date: 2017/10
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On October 23, 2017 the Russian telecom operator of MTS announced equipment procurement and the software of Ericsson for development of networks of fifth generation (5G) and technologies of Internet of Things (Internet of Things, IoT).
MTS will purchase at Ericsson the hardware for networks of wireless communication, the capital equipment and new versions of the solutions Ericsson Mobile Softswitch Solution (MSS) and User Data Consolidation (UDC) providing consolidation of all user data in network. Also Swedish company will deliver the software solutions for mass implementation of IoT providing data transmission from counters and sensors using NB-IoT and Cat-M1 technologies.
MTS will pay more than 400 million euros for all this, the contract will be performed in 2017-2020. According to the results of this transaction the total amount of purchases of MTS of products and services of Ericsson from 2008 to 2020 can be about 2 billion rubles.
The new contract is directed to preparation of MTS network for quick start of services based on technologies 5G and IoT in commercial operation. Implementation ready to support of a 5G and IoT new program and the hardware will allow to update networks in Volga, Northwest, Siberian, Ural and Southern federal districts.
The vice president of MTS for the equipment and IT Andrey Ushatsky says that thanks to supplies of equipment of Ericsson the network of the operator, since 2020, will be ready to implementation of the first solutions based on technologies 5G.
 | After upgrade the MTS network will provide higher data transfer rates, the increased capacity and also smaller time of delays that is crucial for IoT services and digital services which we implement already today — he said. |  |
According to forecasts of Ericsson, in 2020 standards of technologies of communication of a 5G should be approved, and many operators will bring networks of fifth generation into commercial operation.[1]
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