J'son & Partners Consulting: «Charging networks 4G: Russia and the world experience"

The company J'son & Partners Consulting presented a summary of its analytical study "Charging networks 4G: Russia and the world experience", which analyzed the tariff policy of the largest network operators, LTE and guidelines pricing investigation services. The study examined nine foreign - Verizon Wireless, AT & T (USA), SK Telecom (South Korea), NTT DoCoMo (Japan), T-Mobile, Vodafone (Germany), Everything Everywhere (UK), SFR (France) and TeliaSonera (Sweden ) and 3 Russian operator LTE-Yota, MegaFon and MTS.

The world's largest operator of LTE is Verizon Wireless, which in January 2013 covered the LTE networks of over 470 cities in the U.S. with the total number of inhabitants of 273,500,000 people, or about 89% of the population. The number of registered devices in LTE-network in late 2012 reached 21.6 million or 23.3% of contract subscribers.

Second place ranking is the South Korean operator SK Telecom with a subscriber base up to 2012 more than 7 million LTE-network of the company covers an area with a population of almost 99% of the population. In August 2012 the world's first operator to launch LTE network service HD Voice. HD Voice technology significantly improves the audio quality virtually eliminates delays, and reduces the load on the network, freeing up resources for other services. The main limiting factor in the growth popularity of the service is the limited range of available devices that support the technology.

In 2013 it plans to begin the transition to the standard LTE-Advanced. LTE market in South Korea began its development from July 1, 2011, when two operators - SK-Telecom and LG U Plus - launched LTE networks in commercial use. For six months (end 2011) the share of LTE-subscribers in the total number of mobile users in South Korea reached 2% (for SK-Telecom - 3%). At the end of 2012, according to preliminary estimates, the figure of the leader of LTE in the country has reached 26%, the predicted values ​​at the end of 2013 and in 2014 - 50% and 62%, respectively.

Among the Russian operators, the largest in terms of subscribers LTE, is Yota - about 700 thousand at November 2012 By the end of January 2013 the company launched the commercial operation of LTE network in 23 Russian cities. Cost of subscriber equipment Yota varies from 2900 to 5900 rubles.

"MegaFon" acts as a virtual operator (MVNO) in the regions of Yota Networks network and has its own network of TD-LTE in Moscow. The company offers a choice of 3 packages of unlimited Internet access technology 4G LTE, depending on the needs of the subscriber: "Internet L», «Internet XL» and «Internet XXL». Among mobile devices that support the 4G, there are three USB-modem costs 1990 rubles. each and one router worth Rs 4900.

MTS provides internet technology TD-LTE in the Moscow region (natural frequencies) and Kazan Technology FD-LTE (as a virtual network operator on Yota Networks).

The most common LTE user equipment for Russian operators are USB-modems (1990-2970 rubles.) And Wireless Wi-Fi (            4800-4900       rubles.), Including the Internet center of Yota (5900 rubles.) And device Yota Ready (5090 rubles .).

Rates of Yota on average, higher than that of "MegaFon", however, the subscriber for this price gets full unlimited access to the Internet. "MegaFon" and MTS restrict access traffic quota, after which the rate of consumption is reduced to a minimum. In this case, the maximum speed of MTS access is not limited and depends on various factors. Feature of the tariff lines of "MegaFon" is the differentiation of fees for access speed, traffic volume and the region in which the contract with the subscriber. MTS differentiates tariffs on traffic and the region in which the contract with the subscriber.