VimpelCom invests 5 billion rubles in updating of networks in Moscow and involves Huawei

On May 16, 2019 VimpelCom announced the largest updating of the network for all history of the company. The operator upgrades a communications infrastructure in Moscow in cooperation with Huawei.

The first project phase on upgrade including updating of a communication network in all capital areas including the Central Administrative District, it is going to complete by September, 2019. At the expense of it VimpelCom expects to increase considerably the capacity of network and also to treble the speed of the mobile Internet.

VimpelCom invests 5 billion rubles in updating of networks in Moscow and involves Huawei

The termination of the second phase assuming final completion of network and preparation of infrastructure for implementation of mobile communication of fifth generation is planned for 2020.

In upgrade the equipment supporting the standard of communication of Internet of Things NB-IoT and also technology will be used LTE Advanced and LTE Advanced Pro. In places with the greatest density of traffic of data the pre-5G Massive MIMO technology will be activated.

On all base stations working in frequency ranges 1800, 2100 and 2600 MHz in the course of upgrade MIMO4x4 mode is activated that allows to improve significantly quality of a covering, to increase penetration of a signal and data transfer rate, reported in VimpelCom.

The operator estimates expenses on the first phase of updating of the Moscow network at 5 billion rubles. Besides, the company considers similar investments at the second stage.

By 2020 VimpelCom intends to put into operation of a 5G-ready a communication network in Moscow. Within reconstruction within five years the operator expects to increase the number of base stations in Moscow by 60%, the head of department of information technologies Moskvyeduard Lysenko noted. According to him, several thousands of new base stations will appear, first of all, on sections with high traffic for providing a jellied covering of network.^[1]

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