OREANDA-NEWS. Tele2, an alternative mobile operator, has launched the 4G networks at 7 stations of the Moscow underground. The company has covered more stations with LTE network than any of its competitors.

The company is seeking to provide Moscow passengers with high-quality voice and high-speed wireless Internet as a priority task of development in Moscow. Tele2 subscribers may use 4G services at the following stations: Borisovo, Delovoy Tsentr, Zyablikovo, Kotelniki, Lermontovskiy prospect, Troparevo and Shipilovskaya. On the whole, the company’s services are available at nine stations of the Moscow underground.

Tele2 clients may use all advantages of 3G/4G networks on moving stairs and platforms: listen to the music, watch video online in HD quality, send files, use mobile applications and other common Internet options. All in all, Tele2 is planning to roll out 3G/4G networks at over 20 stations of the Moscow underground. They include Alma-Atinskaya, Bitsevskiy Park, Zhulebino, Lesoparkovaya, Novokosino stations. By the end of 2016, subscribers may use voice and high-speed mobile Internet at almost all subway stations.

Aleksey Dmitriev, technical officer at Tele2’s Moscow macroregion:

"Rolling out mobile networks on the underground is taking much more time than setting up base stations in residential and industrial areas of the city. Right after the Moscow launch, Tele2 beat other operators in a number of 4G-covered stations and we are not yet ready to rest. By the end of the year 3G/4G networks will cover over 20 stations, by the end of 2016 they will be rolled at the entire territory of the Moscow underground."

Yuriy Degtyarev, first deputy head of the Moscow underground:

"The main task of the Moscow underground is not only to transport passengers fast and safely but also to provide high-quality transport services. Today any passenger may use mobile service provided by the leading operators of the Moscow underground."