VimpelCom expands in the Southern Region and Sochi

The operator VimpelCom (brand "Beeline") announced a major expansion and modernization of its network in the Southern Region (Astrakhan, Volgograd, Stavropol, Rostov, Krasnodar, Sochi and Elista branches), including, and the city of Sochi. According to the company's southern region is one of the fastest growing: in 2011 for data traffic in mobile networks Southern region has grown by almost half.  VimpelCom said that making a special effort to develop and upgrade the network in southern Russia. At the same time, the company focuses on developing a network of strategically important region - Sochi - on the eve of the Olympics in 2014. At present 2G network covered more than 90% of the territory of Sochi, the 3G network is available in most places traffic generation: in the city and resort locations. By the end of the year the company plans to significantly expand network coverage and increase the rate by half. In this case, the connection of most base stations is accomplished with the help of technology Ethernet, allowing them to increase throughput and increase the subscriber speed 3G network to 21 Mb / s. main results and plans for optimizing the Beeline network in the Southern region:

At present 3G network covered more than 75% of the Southern Region
Over the past year, the 3G network in the southern region increased by 2 times
Over the past year 2G network has increased by 1.3 times
Currently, the total length of fiber-optic lines in the region is over 3300 km length of the end of the year is expected to grow by 70%
The total length of zonal network is 185 km by the end of 2012 it should amount to 1528 km
The total length of main urban areas in the south of FOL for the year rose 50% to 956 km
The total length of sections of fiber-optic network of house for the year also grew by 50% to 2,500 km