MegaFon completed construction of 700 km length of fiber optic

Megafon Company completed the construction of the longest of its own plot of fiber-optic links (FOL), stretching over 700 km in the Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts. Construction of fiber optic in the area "Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk" possible communication channels to connect high-bandwidth to 10 Gbit / s two northern district - Ugra and Yamal. This will improve the quality of communication, to increase the data rate and capacity of services of fixed and mobile communications, said the operator. As the director of Surgut branch of the Ural Branch of OJSC "MegaFon" Sergei Suris, the life of FOL is about 25 years, thus, the the next two decades, provided a solid foundation for the development of 3G-connection and, later, fourth-generation network in the region. When laying fiber-optic network, "Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk 'work could be carried out only at temperatures down to -15 degrees, for winter in these regions are rare. The operator reported that the short northern summer, and the complexity of moorland caused by slowing down the process of construction of FOCL. But despite all the obstacles, the construction was completed on schedule.