“Vympelcom” will spend 3 billion rubles for the construction of mobile network in the Moscow metro on the equipment Chinese Huawei. The company lagged behind the competitors in the penetration in the underground, last year being on the last place in the speed of mobile Internet in the subway. The new equipment will be able to support 5G technology after the launch of this standard, the same are prepared and other operators working with Nokia and Ericsson.”Vympelcom” has started the construction of the 5G network-ready (supports the existing LTE standard and will be able to support 5G after its launch) at all stations, junctions and tunnels of the Moscow metro, told “Kommersant” representative of the operator. According to him, the project is scheduled for completion in November 2020, the first network will be launched at the five busiest lines then on others. Investment has not been officially disclosed. According to the source “b”, their sum will exceed 3 billion rubles within three years. Now the 5G network-ready “VimpelCom” is already available on 61 of 218 underground subway stations, the company said.The project partner was the Chinese Huawei, the equipment that VimpelCom previously started to update the network to 5G-ready in Moscow. Investment in it amounted to 5 billion rubles, told “Kommersant” on 16 may 2019.”Vympelcom” has lagged behind the competitors in terms of coverage in the subway. For example, before the most high quality Internet access in metro provided the operator Wi-Fi “Maximalism”, but at the end of 2019, he lost the lead for speed access to mobile operators who are actively building the network in the subway at the beginning of the same year, recalls the General Director of Telecom Daily Denis Pieces. In the third quarter of 2019 the speed of the Internet “Megaphone” and MTS in the subway was higher than that of “Maximalism”, reported by “Kommersant”, in December 2019, citing data from Telecom Daily. Tele2 and VimpelCom then took fourth and fifth places respectively.After the modernization of the network of “VimpelCom” has a chance to catch up with the quality services leading operators, said Mr. Grand. Besides, in the future, the launch of a 5G network in the metro will allow operators not only to provide services to passengers, but also to provide, for example, the movement of driverless trains, which will require not only high-speed data transmission, but low latency, he adds.With the development of network operators Wi-Fi service in the subway in General will recede into the background, says the head of the Content Review Sergey Polovnikov. That the consumption of Wi-Fi in the Moscow metro decreased after the removal of the regime of self-isolation, “Kommersant” reported on 21 July.MTS a year ago, has provided subscribers with the same quality of Internet in the subway and overland transport, completing the construction of the underground network of LTE on the equipment of Nokia, only at the final stage it was invested more than 1 billion rubles., noted in a press-service of the operator. MTS plans to continue to update network in the subway. The company believes that the decisions of the 5G there can be used to automate the collection of technical data, remote control traffic and video surveillance.”MegaFon” has completed 4G coverage of all stations of the Moscow metro in early 2019, and the number of hauls where available it services, “approaching 100%”, the company said. At Tele2 in the metro base station is already 5G-ready, the company said. There I specify that the network is now available at all stations, and new installed equipment of Ericsson.Julia Silence
