MTS plans to complete the phase-out of 3G technology throughout Russia by the end of 2027. According to Viktor Belov, the company’s vice president of technology, this decision is due to the decrease in the number of 3G smartphone users and the opportunity to increase data transfer speeds. Some of the frequencies previously used for UMTS will be transferred to LTE, providing more capacity. St. While the 3G outage was overcome without any major disruption in the tests carried out in St. Petersburg and Leningrad regions, the company plans to start the same pilot projects in 19 more regions. MTS plans to close half of its 3G base stations by 2025.
In addition, the company continues to introduce domestic base stations produced by Irtey. MTS plans to open approximately 200 stations that will operate in the 800 MHz and 1800 MHz bands in 37 regions of the country this year. According to Belov, the use of Open RAN open architecture will improve the quality of communication and facilitate the transition to 5G. A thousand more stations of this type are planned to be installed next year, and by 2025 the frequency ranges are planned to be increased to 2100 MHz and 2600 MHz.
Belov noted that the switch to Russian equipment was foreseen, which allowed the company to maintain the independence of its network. He also talked about replacing old routers on the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Territory with Russian-made analogues. As an example of the future 5G network, MTS showed an experiment with a virtualized radio network based on Open RAN in Kurovsky in the Moscow region.
Source: Ferra
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