MegaFon updated the network in the Moscow metro, due to which the speed of mobile Internet increased by 42%.
First of all, the modernization affected the Koltsevaya, Zamoskvoretskaya, Sokolnicheskaya, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines. They account for 45% of passenger traffic.
The new hardware settings expand the capabilities of LTE and take into account access to mobile services at high speed.
MegaFon provided its first public subscribers with access to 4G technologies in the Moscow subway in 2016. Traffic consumption is growing steadily – people are increasingly purchasing gadgets on the road. We monitor changes and modernize the network, taking into account the construction of new stations and redistribution of the load, so that our subscribers are constantly in touch and can use high-speed Internet even in the subway.
— Alexey Titov, CTO of MegaFon
It is noted that more than 90% of subscribers use mobile Internet in the metro. The volume of traffic for the year increased by 11%.
A few facts from MegaFon:
📲 More than 50% of the total traffic on messengers, social networks and video services in the metro
📲 The most popular services in the Moscow metro: Telegram (13% of traffic) and VKontakte (7%)
📲 On average, a passenger rides the subway for 30 minutes
📲 59% of men get the subway, 41% women
📲 39% of passengers of the total: aged 30 to 40; 20 to 30 years old: 34%; 40 to 50 years old: 17%
📲 Smartphones account for 82% of traffic
According to MegaFon, the biggest smartphone choice was the iPhone 11. The top three also include the Samsung Galaxy A12 and Xiaomi Redmi 9A. And Honor 10 LTE and iPhone 7, which swept the list last year, dropped to 6th and 7th place, respectively.
Source: Iphones RU
