OREANDA-NEWS. December 5, 2012. MegaFon has started ambitious works on modernization and further development of its own network in Magadan Region. The Operator changes its transport network infrastructure in Magadan over to IP-technologies and broadens its coverage in the Region. It has already allowed to increase the rate of data transmission on MegaFon network and to improve quality of voice communication.

MegaFon started works on transition of transport network infrastructure in Magadan to modern IP-technologies. Use of these technologies when connecting BTS allows to improve quality of voice communication and to increase data transmission rate inside the network. Modernization of network will also provide the possibility for the bigger number of subscribers use at the same time mobile Internet at the stable high rate.

The Operator continues to develop its own communication network in Magadan Region. BTS constructed in localities Atka and Polevaya, located along federal motorway Kolyma, apart from provision of mobile communication for the localities themselves, provide additional coverage of about 40 km of motorway. As a result of modernization of transport network, the data transmission rate was significantly increased in regional centers Ola and Palatka, village Sokol, where airport of Magadan city is located, villages Ultar, Klepka, Arman, Tauysk, Stekolniy, Snezhniy, Snezhnaya Dolina.

Magadan Region is one of the roughest and hard-to-reach regions in the Far East, Eduard Pak, Director of the Magadan regional office of MegaFon, says. ‘Developing communication network here is much more difficult than in other territories. But people living here have the same needs in communication, access to Internet resources, as those living in other regions. MegaFon does everything to provide its customers with communication of quality, applying the most cutting-edge technologies’.

Today MegaFon network in Magadan region includes more than 50 BTS. Average monthly mobile internet traffic on the operator’s network in Quarter III of the current year in the region exceeded 8 Tb.