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2021: FAS allowed Rostelecom, MegaFon and VimpelCom to build 5G networks together
On May 4, 2021, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia announced that it had approved an agreement on the joint construction of 5G networks by Rostelecom, VimpelCom and MegaFon. Under the terms of the contract, these telecom operators will have to ensure equal access to radio frequencies for all market participants. More details here.
2019
Russia conducted the first surgical operations and a remote medical consultation using the Beeline 5G network
On November 29, 2019, Beeline announced a remote consultation held with Huawei, the Russian Society of Surgeons (ROH), the Russian Society of Endoscopic Surgeons (ROEH) on the basis of the GMS Hospital clinic to accompany two operations using medical equipment and 5G networks. More details here.
5G pilot zone launch in Luzhniki
On September 13, 2019, Huawei announced that Beeline launched a 5G pilot zone on the territory of the Luzhniki sports complex and successfully tested the main broadband mobile access services using the latest generation of smartphones. More details here.
Participation in frequency clearing for 5G
The Big Four of Russian mobile operators will clear frequencies for the development of fifth-generation (5G) networks in Russia. About this to journalists on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (WEF; September 4-6, 2019) said Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky. More details here.
Agreement with Ovrpower for the development of the Internet of Things and virtual reality based on 5G
On August 14, 2019 Beeline , he announced that he and the company OVRPOWER (Metrocom LLC) had entered into a strategic partnership agreement for a period of 3 years. The companies agreed to jointly develop and implement projects virtual using and (augmented reality English Virtual reality/VR and Augmented reality/AR) on networks. communications 5G One of the promising areas of cooperation is the development of technologies (English Internet of things Internet of Things/IoT) using the most modern solutions in the field visualization and training.
As part of the partnership, Beeline will provide the partner with access to one of its 5G test networks in Russia to create products and services, especially training games and simulators, as well as augmented reality paintings. The most promising projects will be integrated into Beeline products and services.
In July 2019, partners conducted the first joint tests of VR applications on one of the pilot segments of the Beeline 5G network. In 2020, a permanent platform for the development and testing of VR/AR applications based on the MEC architecture in 5G networks will be opened. The MEC architecture (English Mobile edge computing) is a concept of a network architecture, the main feature of which is that user traffic is processed closer to the subscriber, which reduces the load on the transport network and increases the response speed of applications that are sensitive to delays.
 | Combining the characteristics of fifth-generation communication networks with the customer experience capabilities that open augmented and virtual reality technologies, we take one of the first important steps to piloting 5G cases, |  |
| | The first tests showed high stability of the data channel. In the process of increasing the load, the average transmission delay value was kept at 3 ms with a delay spread of 1.5 ms, which fully meets the requirements for transmitting high quality VR content, | |
Thanks to the latest 5G network, VR and AR-based solutions and products will be able to develop at a qualitatively different level, as well as become widespread among users. In 2020, Beeline will be ready to commission a 5G-ready communications network in Moscow.
The first phase of the modernization project, including the renewal of the communication network in all areas of Moscow, including the Central Administrative District, will be completed by September 2019. As a result, network capacity will increase significantly, and the speed of mobile Internet will increase threefold. The completion of the second phase, which involves the final refinement of the network and the preparation of the infrastructure for the introduction of fifth-generation mobile communications, is planned in 2020.
The project for the development of the Moscow Beeline network involves a large-scale modernization of the mobile communication infrastructure using equipment supporting the Internet of Things technology. NB-IoT Upon completion of the upgrade, Beeline will be fully equipped to support tens of millions of smart Internet of Things devices.
VimpelCom built an 85% 5G network in Moscow and the Moscow Region
On May 17, 2019, it became known that PJSC VimpelCom"" (brand Beeline"") will be ready to be commissioned To Moscow Moscow region into the communication network - 5G ready in 2020. The first phase of the modernization project, which includes the replacement of all base stations in the capital, will end in September 2019. Improving the operator's network in Moscow is a large-scale reconstruction IT Infrastructure in the history of the company.
According to representatives of Bilain, as a result, network capacity will increase, and the speed of mobile Internet will increase three times. The company's investments in updating the capital's network in the first phase amount to 5 billion rubles. The operator plans to spend about the same amount on the second phase of the project.
| | author '= Vasil Lazanich, CEO of PJSC VimpelCom ' Beeline, whose history dates back to Moscow, implements the Supersity program in the metropolis, an important part of which is the creation of a high-quality and progressive, ready-to-implement 5G network. | |
The company plans to complete the second phase, which involves the final refinement of the network and the preparation of the infrastructure for the introduction of fifth-generation mobile communications, in 2020.
According to Vasil Lazanich, the operator will change all base stations in the capital by the end of summer.
| | author '= Vasil Lazanich, CEO of PJSC VimpelCom ' We built an 85% 5G network in Moscow and the Moscow region. This is a big process that began in 2018. We prepared for it for a long time: carefully selected a partner, a model of how to do it, worked out a plan. And in many ways, invisibly for our customers, we have already changed more than 80% of our base stations. | |
The vendor of the modernization project was Huawei.
| | author '= Aiden Wu, CEO of Huawei[1] region[2] ' In Moscow, we offered Bilain modern technologies that will help the operator create a perfect network in the Russian market. Using its international experience and powerful local resources to integrate equipment, Huawei managed to reduce the project implementation time from three to one and a half years. | |
Yuri Nekhaychuk, head of the press service of MegaFon PJSC, believes that the readiness and promise to put into operation a 5G-ready-network does not at all indicate plans to build 5G New Radio.
| | Beeline in the fall only plans to complete only the first phase of modernization of its 4G equipment in the Russian capital, preferring work in the Moscow region. And there, and there to 5G is still extremely far away. LTE Advanced and LTE Advanced Pro technologies, which VimpelCom draws attention to, belong to the 4G communication generation. 5G New Radio will have to be activated on other frequency bands and on completely different equipment. | |
In his opinion, this key problem of launching 5G in Russia is not equipment containing pre-5G technologies, but access to frequencies.
| | Without understanding at what frequencies the real 5G New Radio will work, it is still pointless to talk about any modernization of equipment. It is on the frequencies that the technical characteristics of the 5G equipment, already present, and not preparatory, will largely depend. | |
He is convinced that developing or talking about readiness for the development of 5G without understanding what frequencies the network will work on is unprofessional.
2018
"VimpelCom" was allocated a radio frequency range for the 5G network
According to a report dated December 18, 2018, the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (GKRCH) allocated VimpelCom a radio frequency band for the deployment of the 5G network in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Novosibirsk regions, the Republic of Tatarstan and the Krasnodar Territory.
VimpelCom received a strip of radio frequencies of 25.25-27.5 GHz for carrying out research, skilled, experimental and design works of 5G network.
The press service of VimpelCom declined to comment on this information.
In October 2018, the Ministry of Digital Development proposed issuing frequencies to 5G pointwise. That is, operators receive the right to use the range for the deployment of fifth-generation networks not throughout Russia or a certain region, but to cover local facilities.
In addition, in February 2019, the government is expected to consider the concept of creating a single infrastructure operator for the development of the VimpelCom 5G network[3].
Beeline and Huawei made the first holographic call on the 5G network
On September 26, 2018, VimpelCom (Beeline brand) and Huawei announced a demonstration of fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications capabilities. The 5G demonstration zone was deployed in the exhibition hall of the Museum of Moscow.
During the demonstration, Beeline and Huawei made a holographic call on the 5G network for the first time. Communication of remote interlocutors took place using a hologram - a digitized image was transmitted through mixed reality glasses. Holographic communication technology requires high throughput and a low level of delay, which with mass implementation is possible only in 5G networks, VimpelCom emphasized. Frequencies from the 26600-27200 MHz band temporarily allocated to Beeline were used for demonstration. This section of the spectrum is part of the standardized range - 3GPP band n258.
To make a holographic call, a commercially available Huawei 5G (gNodeB) base station was used, consisting of an active antenna array (HAAU 5213) and a next-generation digital processing module BBU5900 with a 5G board. The radio interface used TDD mode in the 100 MHz bandwidth and MIMO 64x64 technology. As a user terminal, one of 5G CPE devices the first commercially available chipset-based ones was selected, consisting Huawei Balong 5G01 of an RF module (ODU) and a 5G/- Wi-Fi(router IDU). When demonstrated, the data rate per 5G CPE device exceeded 2 Gb/s.
The holographic call technology allows subscribers who are physically in different places to talk using a 3D hologram, which creates the effect of a full-fledged presence of a remote interlocutor. Using MR-glasses, the subscriber talks with the holographic image of the interlocutor in real time. The interlocutor is in a room equipped with 3D cameras, anywhere in the world. In the future, when commercial 5G networks are deployed, it will be possible to make holographic calls from different parts of the world and organize a holographic conference call between groups of subscribers.
Beeline and Huawei also showed a practical case of using 5G technology in the field virtual reality (Virtual Reality,) VR using the example of online broadcasting from a 360-degree camera in a VR helmet. The technology can potentially be used both to expand user experience in the context of remote travel and to develop "virtual retail." For example, a Beeline customer can visit the operator's salon, connect a tariff plan or buy while smartphone physically at home.
2017
FSO may prevent the allocation of 5G communication bands for VimpelCom and Rostelecom
"" and VimpelCom structures Rostelecom"" may have difficulty obtaining frequencies for 5G testing due to a failure FSO to allocate bands in the bands 3400-3800 MHz. At the same time, the applications MTS of the National Research Institute of Technology and Communications (NSI NIITS), which requested frequencies in other bands, are planned to be fully approved. This can put operators in unequal conditions when testing speeds 5G writes in November. ""Kommersant
The State Commission on Radio Frequencies (GKRCH) plans to allocate to Vimpelkom a band of 25.25-29.5 GHz for an experimental 5G communication network in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Leningrad, Moscow and Samara regions, the Republic of Tatarstan, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, follows from the preliminary draft decision of GKRch. The final decision will be made at a meeting on December 28. At the same time, the state commission plans to refuse the operator in frequencies of 3400-3800 MHz in the same regions. The FSO Special Connection opposed the allocation of frequencies in this range, it follows from the appendix to the documents.
Other companies had the same problems. GKRCH is ready to allocate radio frequency bands for testing 5G structures FreshTel (controlled by Rostelecom). Progress LLC, Orion LLC, Interproject LLC and Capital LLC, which claimed frequencies of 3400-3600 MHz and 3600-3800 MHz, will receive 3400-3440 MHz and 3545-3550 MHz Kazan in and (Innopolis Tatarstan),, and St. Petersburg Belgorod Ivanovskaya regions, and, Kaliningrad Moscow Svetlogorsk, ("Crocus Krasnogorsk Expo") and. " Skolkovo The commission plans to refuse companies to allocate frequencies of 3440-3545 MHz and 3550-3600 MHz - also because of the objections of the FSO Special Communications.
In addition, GKRCH plans to completely refuse LLC "Your Mobile Technologies" ("Tattelecom") in the radio frequency band 3400-3600 MHz for communication of the LTE/LTE-Advanced standard for research work in Kazan and Innopolis "on the basis of a negative conclusion" on the possibility of its allocation.
From the materials of the GKRCH it follows that the commission decided to fully approve the MTS application for frequencies 27.5-28.35 GHz to create fragments of experimental 5G networks in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don and Sochi. The State Commission also plans to approve the request of NIITS (part of the structures of businessman Vitaly Yusufov) for frequencies in the range of 24.25-27.5 GHz, 31.8-33.4 GHz, 40.5-42.5 GHz and 66-71 GHz for testing in Moscow. The general director of NIITS, Alexander Minov, told Kommersant that he was not yet familiar with the decision of the GKRCH, but noted: the institute expects to receive the requested frequencies that will allow testing 5G using domestic equipment. The MTS said that they are awaiting the decision of the GKRCH. "Already, MTS is multiplying network capacity and working closely with vendors," the company said. Recently, the operator entered into an agreement with Ericsson, which in 2017-2020 will supply MTS with equipment and software for the 5G network for more than €400 million.
VimpelCom does not comment on the draft decisions that are submitted for consideration by the GKRCH, noting only that "they are fully ready to test 5G in promising frequency ranges." Rostelecom reported that they expect to receive the amount of radio frequency resource that is necessary for the deployment of experimental 5G zones in Innopolis, Skolkovo and the Hermitage. "We propose to wait for the official decision of the GKRCH. All our previously stated plans remain in force, "the operator's press service said. According to a Kommersant source close to the company's management, the operator still expects to receive at least 45 MHz of continuous frequency bands in those bands for which the GKRCH project provides a negative solution, as well as in the bands 3600-3800 MHz. According to him, after testing 5G in 2018, Rostelecom plans to secure the allocated frequencies. Another Kommersant source in the company clarifies that, perhaps, not all companies included in the FreshTel will receive the declared frequencies. In addition to Rostelecom, Tattelecom , Huawei and the Ministry of Informatization and Communications of Tatarstan participate in the project to deploy 5G in Innopolis. Tattelecom did not respond to a request from Kommersant. Earlier, MegaFon was the first to receive 5G testing frequencies. In July, the GKRCH allocated the company a resource in the ranges of 3.4-3.8 GHz and 24.25-29.5 GHz.
It is important for operators to get the maximum necessary frequencies to demonstrate high speeds of 5G, in another way it seems difficult to show the capabilities of 5G, states Georgy Muratov, a leading expert on 5G Ericsson in Russia. "When obtaining narrower or interrupted lanes, operators fall into an unequal position compared to those who received wider and more continuous lanes," he explains. But the decision of the GKRCH may depend on which frequency bands are already occupied in specific territories by other users, for example, satellite systems or military services, Mr. Muratov adds.
MTS and VimpelCom filed applications for the development of 5G networks
On September 20, 2017, it became known about the applications submitted by MTS and VimpelCom for frequencies for the development of fifth-generation (5G) networks. Operators are going to test the technology in the experimental zones of the capital and regions.
The fact that MTS and VimpelCom sent applications to the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (GKRCH) to allocate frequency bands for the creation of experimental 5G communication networks, Kommersant wrote citing its own sources. VimpelCom confirmed this information to the publication.
According to Anna Aibasheva, a representative of VimpelCom, pilot testing of 5G communications does not require the use of commercial equipment, including subscriber equipment, and test prototypes of 5G terminals are already available by September 2017.
VimpelCom intends to create experimental 5G zones in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Leningrad, Moscow and Samara regions, in Tatarstan, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories. MTS, in turn, plans to begin 5G coverage from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don and Sochi.
In addition, MTS plans to test 5G in the framework of the 2018 World Cup together with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung. The operator will launch the network into commercial operation in approximately 2020-2022 years.
Previously, MegaFon received frequencies for testing 5G. The publication emphasized that the operators of the "Big Three" have already asked for testing more than 3 GHz , which significantly exceeds the frequency range for communication of the previous generation.
When implementing 5G, it is necessary to inventory and optimize the frequency plans of the old technology, and consider changing the process of financing frequency redistribution, the source said Kommersant in MegaFon
Tele2 has not yet applied for frequencies for 5G networks. The reason is due to the fact that in this case the payment for the spectrum used increases and the average revenue from one subscriber decreases, the company said.[4]
VimpelCom is preparing to launch 5G with Huawei
In early 2017, PJSC VimpelCom (Beeline brand) announced the signing of an agreement with Huawei to jointly study and test the technologies underlying 5G networks. Cooperation with a Chinese developer is designed to determine steps to develop Beeline networks on the way to 5G as part of VimpelCom's digital transformation strategy. In addition, help Huawei create solutions that meet market requirements as much as possible.
Under the terms of the agreement, it is planned that in the first quarter of 2017, tests will be carried out on innovative LTE-U (LTE-Unlicensed) technologies and LTE-Advanced Pro functions designed to improve user experience in data transfer. These studies will help Huawei develop new technologies and standards, and PJSC VimpelCom will create new generation networks, improve the quality of services and launch new digital services for customers.
During 2017, the companies intend to develop and test the technologies of the Internet of Things, machine interaction (M2M), virtual radio, as well as public safety solutions. In addition, the parties agreed this year to test a number of opportunities to increase speed and reduce network delays during data transmission.
Sergey Knyshev, Director of Network Development of PJSC VimpelCom: "The main reason for our innovative changes is the desire to provide customers with the best digital services. The development of new networks is one of the main priorities of VimpelCom. We strive to be the best operator in Russia and are confident that this year the volume of mobile data consumption will increase. According to the results of the fourth quarter of 2016, we saw an increase in LTE traffic by more than 2 times compared to the previous year. Understanding the high demand for new technologies and standards, we are in search of partners that will help us transform into a digital company. This cooperation will allow us to take the first step towards a fundamentally new quality of services and communications for our customers. "
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Notes
- ↑ [https://www.comnews.ru/content/119618/2019-05-17/vympelkom-perehodit-na-5g-ready in Eurasia
- ↑ "VimpelCom" switches to] 5G-ready
- ↑ received frequencies for the deployment of 5G in a number of regions of Russia
- ↑ 5G became more frequent in the market
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