OREANDA-NEWS. November 15, 2012. For the first time ever, direct broadcasting from an outstanding event in business life of Saint-Petersburg, Forum of North-West Big Business Forum TOP-250, was arranged instantly using MegaFon’s 4G modem.

Last Friday on October 26, the Third Forum of North-West Big Business TOP-250 took place in Saint-Petersburg under support of MegaFon. This significant event traditionally accompanies release of the annual rating of the largest companies of the North-West Federal District by the leading business journal “Expert North-West”.

Ambassador hotel that became the venue of the forum this year assembled over 200 participants: leaders of the largest enterprises in the region, representatives of business and political elite, well-known analysts and recognized consultants. Owing to 4G network speed of up to 50 Mb/sec, which provided for high quality of broadcasting, all Internet users had an opportunity to watch the key event of the forum. Panel discussion was demonstrated in real-time on the web-site of Expert North-West journal.

4G from MegaFon provides for both excellent transmission and receipt of data, and guests of the forum could also see that: the activities could be watched using a 4G modem with excellent image and sound quality even outside the conference room where the key events took place. Dmitry Gloumskov, Editor-in-Chief of Expert North-West journal, appreciated the on-line broadcasting that was instantly arranged by MegaFon: “All forum participants and visitors to our web-site could see personally that 4G is a technology that really connects the whole globe. Easy access and high data speed that are provided by LTE networks and 4G modem helped us to set up Internet broadcasting in a couple of moments, and quality was simply on top!”

Alexey Semenov, Director of MegaFon’s North-West Branch, was one of the participants of panel discussion at the forum to discuss various economic and political aspects of cooperation between government and business, pros and cons of global economic integration as well as development strategy of the big business. He presented to the audience MegaFon’s position regarding importance of new technologies introduction in various business areas and timely adaptation of employees to these technologies.

“MegaFon understands that the future is new technology. Today our company is not scared of serious investments to the areas that will be of high demand tomorrow. Mobile Internet is the growth driver of telecommunications. It happened with 3G and the same is happening now with 4G. Although only about 2% of the global population use 4G, development of LTE networks gives us serious advantage inj the future,” said Director of MegaFon’s North-West Branch.

After lengthy networking, exchange of opinions and active discussions the awarding ceremony was held for the winners of TOP-250 rating of the largest companies in the North-West. Nice souvenirs from MegaFon were presented to representatives of the best companies in the region.