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MTS Speeds Up LTE Rollout in Russia with LTE-A & Small Cells Deployments

MTS Speeds Up LTE Rollout in Russia with LTE-A & Small Cells Deployments

Mobile TeleSystems(MTS), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, in a network development update highlighted that it has installed over 9,160 base stations across Russia in the first half of this year compared to 5,730 base stations installed during the same period last year. Of this, roughly 53% of the total number of the base stations installed support LTE standard with over 50% of the new base stations operating in the 'tech neutral' 1800 MHz range that supports the LTE-Advanced technology. MTS projects an estimated CAPEX spending of RUB 85 billion (approximately US$1.35 billion) this year. 

According to MTS, it has commercially launched its LTE-1800 network in over 100 population centers in the Krasnodar Region, complementing existing LTE networks in Saint-Petersburg and Leningrad Region; and in Chelyabinsk Region, Yaroslavl Region and Yakutia. The Operator has also deployed LTE-Advanced with aggregation of spectrum in the 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz ranges in Perm Krai, Rostov and Sverdlov Region.

In addition, MTS has also launched LTE networks in the 800 MHz range in Moscow and the Moscow Region, which gives better network quality and greater coverage in the population centers and along major roads. 

At the same time, MTS said that it was the first operator in Russia to start deploying small cells in the LTE-Advanced standard with the aggregation of spectrum in 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz ranges, providing for peak speeds of 150 Mb/s in Azov, Rostov Region.

Andrei Ushatskiy, MTS Vice President, Technology and IT
MTS delivers peak speeds up to 75Mb/s on LTE networks launched in a single spectrum range. By aggregating spectrum in the 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz ranges, MTS increases peak speeds up 150 Mb/s and up to 187 Mb/s in some network segments. Over 81% of MTS’s 3G base stations support speeds up to 42 Mb/s, while the remaining 21% deliver speeds up to 21 Mb/s.During H1 2015, the volume of mobile data traffic on the MTS’s mobile networks increased by 45% year-over-year.

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