Rostelecom will introduce 700 base stations per month, but in Moscow last

There was interesting information from Rostelecom. Yesterday, at a press conference, he announced that he is entering the mobile communication markets of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and that he has more than 2 thousand ready-made base stations of mobile communication and plans to commission 700 stations every month , but the launch of the 3G network in Moscow is scheduled for the 4th quarter 2013

“In the first quarter, we plan to launch 3 cities, the main launches will be in the 2nd quarter of 2013, and we are planning to launch Moscow and the region in the 4th quarter of 2013,” said Ivan Zima, technical director of the company. The launch of the first mobile base station in New Moscow is scheduled for December 4, and today the operator begins testing the 3G network elements in St. Petersburg.

As for LTE-networks, then, according to Zaitsev, now the company continues to choose the regions in which it will develop this technology next year.

Are subscribers waiting for new tariff offers?

The appearance of Rostelecom in Moscow, perhaps, will invigorate the market, where the “big three” Beeline, MTS, and Megaphone feel comfortable, and at the same time kill the hopes for Tele2 to appear here.
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Over the past 2 years, there is a tendency to increase prices for mobile Internet and encourage subscribers to switch to unlimited subscriptions with a fixed monthly subscription fee - in the tariffs with megabyte consumption, operators introduced rounding sessions and increased the cost of 1 megabyte so that they rarely make sense to use them. In turn, the minimum monthly payment for mobile Internet is regularly increased .

The reasons for this are often called the need to return investments from the construction of LTE networks and the purchase of new equipment, although it is possible that one of the main reasons is the increasing use of VoIP and OTT services by subscribers like Whatsapp, iMessage, Facetime and Viber, which allow you to communicate for free and in a more convenient way, as a result of which subscribers send fewer SMS and call less.

Whether the arrival of Rostelecom in Moscow and St. Petersburg will have a significant impact on the state of affairs is a big question.

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