MTS rolls out 3G in Khabarovsk – 1GB of data for free
MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, has announced test launch of 3G network in Khabarovsk. Any MTS subscriber in Khabarovsk can now test carrier's 3G services. When MTS 3G network is commercially launched, 3G features will automatically become available to all MTS subscribers in the city.
Users can get a test SIM card with 3G service subscription and free 1GB data at any MTS store in Khabarovsk. Also those who want to use high speed internet features in mobile 3G networks should have a handset or a dongle with UMTS/HSDPA support and be in MTS 3G network coverage area. MTS 3G network provides theoretical maximum download rates up to 3.6 Mbs.
Today MTS 3G networks operate in all federal districts of Russia: Ural, Far East, Siberia, South, North-West, Volga region, Moscow and Central district, - altogether in 40 Russian cities. Nowadays more than half of all active MTS 3G users generate at average about 1Gb data a month. With new developing technologies data consumption rates in mobile internet continue to grow. Since 3G network commercial launch in Vladivostok, MTS subscribers in Far East consume more than 30% of all mobile web data in Primorye Territory. During testing period 3G coverage area in Vladivostok and Irkutsk was expanded more than three times. MTS 3G traffic consumption is growing sequentially. In second quarter this year web data volume, transferred in MTS 3G network, grew by 10% comparing with the first quarter 2009. Biggest volumes of data in MTS 3G networks are transferred by users in Novosibirsk, Saint-Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, and Vladivostok.
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