MegaFon's network for the New Year ready to load

Operator MegaFon said on network availability for New Year holidays. The operator conducted extensive work on the expansion and modernization of the network, and has taken steps to organize constant monitoring to ensure that the peak period of more than 62 million of its subscribers high-quality communication. Work on preparing the network to the holiday stress MegaFon began in October. In the New Year's Eve technical specialists predict a marked increase in traffic: the number of sent SMS in peak 4-fold increase compared with the usual day, the voice traffic will grow by 1.5-2 times. Increase in Internet traffic in New Year's Eve is not expected. As noted by Igor Parfenov, CTO of Vodafone this year seriously extended network channels between operators, which will provide reliable communications to MegaFon subscribers with customers of other operators in Russia and abroad. Now the technical experts of the company completes efforts to expand network capacity MegaFon, considering the data of previous years and increase the number of subscribers. Just before the holidays, the company "Megaphone" has taken special measures to subscribers in the New Year does not feel significant changes in the network as compared with conventional day . Technical measures:

expanded capacity of the transport network;
increased density in the radio component signal, this is achieved through the introduction of new technologies HSPA +, throughput increases 4-fold;
additional transmitters installed network 2G/3G. During the year the number of transmitters 3G increased by 50% and 10% 2G;
run additional server information and billing system to ensure the uninterrupted payment and online billing services on public holidays;
expanded channels for intercity and international routes;
suspended construction and commissioning work on the network, in which failures can occur, and deterioration in the quality of communication;
the major network elements and nodes of transport network are diesel generators for uninterrupted supply of key elements in the case of network disconnect external power supply.