MTS turned on communication at new stations of the Moscow metro line leading to Vnukovo airport

2023

Launch of mobile communications and the Internet at Vnukovo Airport and Pykhtino stations

On September 6, 2023, the MTS ecosystem announced the provision of mobile communications and high-speed mobile Internet to two new stations of the Solntsevskaya line of the Moscow metro - Vnukovo Airport and Pykhtino. This line was the first in Russia to connect the metro with the airport.

MTS launched a mobile communication network at two stations that opened on September 6, which will allow the maximum number of passengers to use mobile voice services and the Internet from the first days of the stations.

Vnukovo Airport is a metro station leading directly to the airport. Given the importance of this section of the Solntsevskaya line for the connectivity of the transport infrastructure of the Moscow region, we are launching first of all our network simultaneously with the commissioning of new stations so that subscribers can freely use high-quality voice services, high-speed mobile Internet and digital services with a stable signal and wide coverage, - said Vladislav Medvedev, technical director of the Moscow region of MTS .

Provision of mobile internet up to 250 Mbps at seven stations

On February 27, 2023, MTS PJSC announced that it had provided continuous and stable access to mobile Internet and communication services at new stations and in the tunnels of the large ring line (BCL) of the Moscow metro at speeds up to 250 Mbps.

The company provided communication LTE standards for seven BCL stations: Maryina Roshcha, Rizhskaya, Sokolniki, Pechatniki, Nagatinsky Zaton, Klenovy Boulevard and Tekstilshchiki, as well as on two reconstructed ones - Varshavskaya and Kashirskaya. A high-frequency slit cable is laid in the tunnels between the stations, and modern base stations are installed in the lobbies and on the platforms. This will allow MTS subscribers to continuously use the high-speed from Internet the first days of operation of the new BCL sections as freely as in the entire metro of the capital.

Metro subscribers spend an average of an hour and a half a day and want to spend this time usefully, communicating, reading or working. For 2022, they downloaded almost 40% more data than in 2021, and demand for a high-quality high-speed connection underground will grow further. We are constantly expanding the network at new stations and upgrading the existing network. In 2022, we replaced the old equipment and laid a high-frequency slit cable in the tunnels of the busiest lines - Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Arbat-Pokrovskaya, Serpukhov-Timiryazevskaya and Kaluga-Rizhskaya, combined all the ranges involved to expand the capacity of the LTE network. Thanks to this, passengers can use the continuous Internet during the journey, without even downloading books and videos, and solving their other tasks, "said the technical director of the Moscow region of MTSVladislav Medvedev.

2022:60% increase in mobile internet speed

On November 18, 2022, MTS PJSC announced that as a result of the ongoing network modernization in the Moscow metro, the average speed of mobile Internet in subway tunnels increased by more than one and a half times to 50 Mbps.

The company replaces equipment at all stations, crossings and tunnels of the metro, is reconfiguring the network in order to fully use the potential of the current LTE standard. To do this, all five radio bands used on the MTS network are combined, which increases the data transfer rate and network capacity. These measures allow subscribers to stably use the Internet even with a large crowd of passengers.

Work on the modernization of equipment and aggregation of the frequency range was carried out on the busiest metro lines - Koltsevaya, Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Zamoskvoretskaya lines, which carry more than a million passengers daily. By the end of 2022, work will be completed on the Big Ring and Kaluga-Riga lines, on the rest of the sections - in 2023.

96% of MTS subscribers in the metropolitan metro actively use the Internet. Since the beginning of 2022, the volume of transmitted data in the MTS network in the subway has grown by more than 20%. Here, residents of the metropolis read news, communicate on social networks, watch films and videos, work and study. For November 2022, the speed from station to station may be different, but it is sufficient to solve most problems, "said Vladislav Medvedev, technical director of the MTS Moscow region. - We will continue to modernize the network in the metro so that communication remains continuous and stable in all its sections. Our task is to make sure that the quality of communication services underground is the same as on the surface.

2019

4G network completion

On October 2, 2019, it became known that MTS PJSC completed the construction of a 4G network in all tunnels and stations of the Moscow Metro.

The maximum mobile speed Internet at stations can reach 200 megabits per second due to aggregation of the 1800 and 800 Megahertz bands. Average speeds with regular passenger traffic will be about 35 megabits per second and will allow you to correspond to, messengers check social networks or, email play online games and continuously watch streaming video while the train is moving. Metro passengers spend more than 70% of mobile Internet traffic on these services. Vo technology is also available to subscribers, LTE which allows the provision of voice services on the 4G network.

The Moscow Metro is an integral part of the transport infrastructure of an actively developing metropolis. Almost nine million people use it every day, many of whom are MTS customers. On average, Muscovites spend 20 hours a month on the subway, which can be spent with maximum benefit. Providing high-quality communication throughout the city, including on its key transport arteries, is the main priority of MTS in the Moscow region. Our connection helps Muscovites save the most valuable resource - time, and we are ready to continue to strengthen the technological base for the further implementation of Moscow's sustainable development strategy, which is possible only on the basis of a powerful telecommunications infrastructure, noted the director of MTS in the Moscow region Pavel Kuznetsov

More than two million subscribers use the MTS metro network every day. Metro passengers use an average of 360 Terabytes of mobile Internet per week, and since the beginning of 2019, total data traffic has grown fivefold, and traffic on the LTE network has grown almost eightfold. MTS was the first to develop the 4G network in the Moscow Metro in 2015. Since 2015, the company has invested more than 1.7 billion rubles in the project. ^[1].

Providing 226 stations of the Moscow Metro with mobile communications

On February 11, 2019, MTS announced that it had provided full coverage of the Moscow Metro with amobile communications.

According to the company, at all 226 stations of the Moscow Metro, the MTS network is available in the following standards: 2G, 3G and 4G. MTS subscribers can also make voice calls and use mobile Internet while driving in a car in metro tunnels using "second" and "third" generation networks, and on a number of sections of the Kalinin-Solntsevskaya and Sokolnicheskaya branches and in the 4G standard.

Muscovites spend an average of about 40 minutes a day underground and are not ready to give up voice services and access to familiar applications, instant messengers, emails and online games for this time. A joint project with the Moscow Metro to equip all metro stations with a modern communication standard will allow our subscribers to comfortably use any digital services, including those sensitive to the speed of mobile Internet. Igor Egorov, Director of MTS in the Moscow region

The maximum speed of mobile Internet for February 2019 at stations can reach 250 megabits per second. Average speeds with regular passenger traffic will allow those waiting for the arrival of the train to fully use any Internet services: from simple communication in instant messengers to watching online videos in high quality.

By the end of 2019, MTS plans to provide all subway tunnels with the 4G standard. As of February 2019, more than two million subscribers use the MTS metro network every day. Metro passengers use an average of 360 terabytes of mobile Internet per month.

2017: MTS was the first in the world to build a cellular network in the metro based on Wi-Fi

The mobile operator Mobile Telesystems (MTS) and the Maxima Telecom company launched a joint project at the beginning of the year to improve the quality of communication in the Moscow metro. We are talking about the installation of UMTS (3G) femtocells in metro cars connected to the Maxima Telecom network^[2] was^[3]

Since 2013, Maxima Telecom have been build a Wi-Fi network with Wi-Fi Internet access in the metropolitan metro. Wi-Fi routers are installed in the cars, which are connected via a proprietary protocol to a wireless transport "Maxima Telecom."

Communication within tunnels

At the beginning of 2016, Maxima Telecom won the Moscow metro tender for the installation of femtocells in metro cars. Femtocell is a miniature base station that connects to the Internet channel and provides access to the cellular network from the premises.

In 2016, Maxima Telecom agreed with MTS to jointly implement a project to install femtocells. Maxima Telecom purchased femtocots of the Japanese corporation NEC, which by the beginning of 2017 were installed in cars on most metro lines.

Thanks to femtocells, the quality of communication for MTS subscribers inside the metro tracks should improve. We are talking about voice communication, SMS-messages and data transmission at speeds sufficient for operation Internetmessengers-. At the same time, for example, it may not be enough to watch video speeds obtained at the expense of femtocells, and it will be better for the subscriber to connect to the Maximetelecom Wi-Fi network.

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