"MegaFon" announced the creation and successful testing 4G network in Sochi

Results of testing the network 4G «MegaFon» in Sochi showed that the average speed of mobile internet it was 35 Mbit / s, and peak rates up to 60 Mbit / s. The company's network is fully ready to welcome guests of the Olympic Games: a high-speed mobile Internet to provide basic sports facilities mountain and coastal clusters, highways and social infrastructure. The tests performed show the high technical readiness network "Megaphone" to receive in Krasnaya Polyana Games and the Olympic Park. Olympic Winter Games in 2014 will be the most compact in the history of the Games, a small area at the same time mobile services will benefit tens of thousands of fans that cause the peak load on the network. During the test events that took place in Sochi between December and March this year, the traffic data transmission has increased more than 5.5 times - up to 280 TB, and the Olympics are expected even higher. Technicians "Megaphone" expect that communicate over a network of mobile Internet will be able to simultaneously thousands of subscribers at a rate not less than 1 Mbit / s. At the same load on the equipment will be in the order of 70%. The maximum data rate depends on the model of the mobile device, and can reach more than 14 Mbit / s. per subscriber. According to forecasts, every subscriber of "Megaphone" for Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be able to download more than 1 GB of data traffic. Now mobile coverage in Sochi provide 950 base stations "Megaphone", over 270 of which - with support for 4G. The uniqueness of the network to the Olympic Park is within the exclusive coverage of all the objects that will use the full potential of LTE-network when you are indoors. To do this, inside stadiums installed hundreds of additional antennas and cables are laid kilometers of fiber optic network.