Yota - the first mobile WiMAX network in Russia
Oleg Klimov writes in the news of the Mobile Review site that Scartel LLC announced the launch of a mobile broadband access network using Mobile WiMAX technology under the Yota brand in test operation.
Today, Yota is not only the largest in Russia, but also one of the world's largest Mobile WiMAX networks - a 4G generation network (commented by Samsung Electronics Vice President Hyun Song).
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Now the network provides coverage within the Garden Ring in Moscow, Vasileostrovsky and Petrogradsky districts of St. Petersburg, as well as fragmentary coverage in a number of other districts of the two capitals. By the end of 2008, the company plans to provide full coverage of these cities and a number of adjacent areas in the area in the direction of the main radial.
Already installed 150 base stations in Moscow and 80 in St. Petersburg, operating in the range of 2.5 - 2.7 GHz. In total, as part of the project to create the first Mobile WiMAX network in Russia, by the end of 2008, 1,000 stations will be installed in both capitals, each of which will be connected to the company's own transport network at a speed of at least 200 Mb / s. All this allows to provide data transfer rate per user device up to 10 Mb / s.
The contract for the supply of equipment for the construction of the network was concluded with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
At the moment of launching the network, three types of user devices from Yota will be presented on the market: Samsung USB and ASUS ASUS modems, ASUS Express card and ASUS multi-user WiMAX Wi-Fi mobile center, which, in addition to WiMAX, serves as a Wi-Fi access point and also enables wired communication. connect devices via Ethernet and two regular telephone or fax machines. USB modems and Express cards contain Yota Access software required for connecting to the network. The devices will go on sale in retail chains in November of this year.
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Update. COMNEWS reports in more detail. I give a squeeze.
By the end of October, the operator will test WiMAX networks, distributing 2 thousand users of subscriber equipment for free. From November, subscriber devices will go on sale to dealers (Ion, Svyaznoy, Belyi veter digital). At this stage, the subscriber will need to purchase a USB modem or PC card (the average price is 4 thousand rubles), and internet access will be free for some time.
In addition to Scartel, WiMAX Holding from Cyprus has a call center, a Scartel Starlab mobile services aggregator, and More, a content aggregator that buys content rights from rights holders. “We offer a huge number of internal services, and many of them will be included in the basic package,” Denis Sverdlov told ComNews. “All our tariffs are unlimited, that is, we do not charge for traffic, but there will be some extra charge to the base tariff for using our catalog.” According to Sverdlov, the music catalog will include about 1 million songs, and the library will include several thousand films.
In recent years, several companies have already announced a large-scale launch of mobile WiMAX, but no one has yet built networks. Sverdlov is not confused: “We want to be taken seriously. We have shown that we work quickly - what we have done in 15 months is practically impossible to implement in such a period, but we succeeded. ” In the regions, the company will not slow down, Sverdlov promises: "We have everything for this - money, a resource and a team."
Today, Yota is not only the largest in Russia, but also one of the world's largest Mobile WiMAX networks - a 4G generation network (commented by Samsung Electronics Vice President Hyun Song).
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Now the network provides coverage within the Garden Ring in Moscow, Vasileostrovsky and Petrogradsky districts of St. Petersburg, as well as fragmentary coverage in a number of other districts of the two capitals. By the end of 2008, the company plans to provide full coverage of these cities and a number of adjacent areas in the area in the direction of the main radial.
Already installed 150 base stations in Moscow and 80 in St. Petersburg, operating in the range of 2.5 - 2.7 GHz. In total, as part of the project to create the first Mobile WiMAX network in Russia, by the end of 2008, 1,000 stations will be installed in both capitals, each of which will be connected to the company's own transport network at a speed of at least 200 Mb / s. All this allows to provide data transfer rate per user device up to 10 Mb / s.
The contract for the supply of equipment for the construction of the network was concluded with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
At the moment of launching the network, three types of user devices from Yota will be presented on the market: Samsung USB and ASUS ASUS modems, ASUS Express card and ASUS multi-user WiMAX Wi-Fi mobile center, which, in addition to WiMAX, serves as a Wi-Fi access point and also enables wired communication. connect devices via Ethernet and two regular telephone or fax machines. USB modems and Express cards contain Yota Access software required for connecting to the network. The devices will go on sale in retail chains in November of this year.
Comment. Slightly cleaned the text of the original news from the advertising husk.
Update. COMNEWS reports in more detail. I give a squeeze.
By the end of October, the operator will test WiMAX networks, distributing 2 thousand users of subscriber equipment for free. From November, subscriber devices will go on sale to dealers (Ion, Svyaznoy, Belyi veter digital). At this stage, the subscriber will need to purchase a USB modem or PC card (the average price is 4 thousand rubles), and internet access will be free for some time.
In addition to Scartel, WiMAX Holding from Cyprus has a call center, a Scartel Starlab mobile services aggregator, and More, a content aggregator that buys content rights from rights holders. “We offer a huge number of internal services, and many of them will be included in the basic package,” Denis Sverdlov told ComNews. “All our tariffs are unlimited, that is, we do not charge for traffic, but there will be some extra charge to the base tariff for using our catalog.” According to Sverdlov, the music catalog will include about 1 million songs, and the library will include several thousand films.
In recent years, several companies have already announced a large-scale launch of mobile WiMAX, but no one has yet built networks. Sverdlov is not confused: “We want to be taken seriously. We have shown that we work quickly - what we have done in 15 months is practically impossible to implement in such a period, but we succeeded. ” In the regions, the company will not slow down, Sverdlov promises: "We have everything for this - money, a resource and a team."
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/38760/
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