MegaFon Became Communication Partner of Upcoming Winter Olympics
OREANDA-NEWS. July 26, 2012. Kavkaz Branch of MegaFon being a telecom partner of the first summer test competitions on the objects of the upcoming Winter games provided mobile communication and Internet for numerous visitors of the Olympic high mountains.
A leg of Continental Cup at ski jumping took place with technical support from MegaFon. Being a General Partner of XXII Olympic and Paralympic winter games 2014, MegaFon showed high network availability to the arrival of numerous athletes and visitors within large sport event. All MegaFon subscribers who visited high mountain of Krasnaya Poliana during competitions used not only quality voice communication but also mobile Internet at the rate of up to 20 Mbps. Numerous journalists, representatives of the competitions’ organizing committee, fans and athletes highly appreciated a possibility of immediate upload of photos and video-content to social networks and the news.
‘For us it is a unique possibility to test mobile communication in different weather conditions with different level of load and volume of traffic consumption. It should be noted that in summer MegaFon network works smoothly and numerous visitors of the competitions witnessed it, Anatoly Gorbunov, Director of Sochi Regional Office of Kavkaz Branch of MegaFon, noted. ‘In addition to quality technical support for competitions we also provided organizing committee and delegation of Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of the
For convenience of the Organizing committee’s work all sites of the official competition events were equipped with MegaFon femto cells. These are miniature mobile communication stations with low capacity which are connected to MegaFon via access channel to Internet what guarantees high quality and reliability of both voice communication and mobile Internet.
MegaFon will have finished construction of 90% of all communication infrastructure planned for telecommunication support of Winter Olympic Games in
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