GSM-900 Have stretched
The national commission concerning regulation of the market of communication at the next meeting has made decision to grant four licences for additional radio frequencies in a range of 900 MHz to four cellular operators: «Kievstar», MTS, «the Ukrainian Radio systems» (TM Beeline) and «Astelit» (life:)).
It will allow operators to improve the cover first of all in the remote areas of the country, considering specificity of radio strips, and also it is better to cope with hours-peaks per megacities. Thanks to licensing the pblic finance will replenish, by regulator estimations, on 100 million grn. «We have processed demands of GSM-operators for an additional frequency resource that there was no conflict of interests from the Ministry of Defence, I mean», — the head of the commission Sergey Kolobov has declared «i». As he said, together with this department and «Ukrchastotnadzorom» conversion in the above-stated range has been conducted. It became, as a matter of fact, result of their long work which has been begun in 2003 Under data «i», NKRS has decided to grant licences on beskonkursnoy to a basis at cost which has been established KMU.
Communication statements had to wait long time before expanding a radio-frequency range, and the requirement for increase in capacity of a network at them has turned today to vital necessity. «Our strategy on increase in use of a telecommunication service starts to bring notable results; for a year (following the results of the second quarter) indicator MOU (average quantity of the used minutes in a month on one subscriber) has grown on 57 % — about 152 minutes to 239 minutes the Additional frequency resource will allow us to increase GSM-network capacity, to process considerably increased quantity of simultaneous calls», — the director for a corporate governance and the control "MTS-Ukraine" has declared «i» Andrey Bereznyj. Also, as he said, in due course it can be used for development of other technologies. « We consider this decision imperative and indicative for branch the Ministry of Defence that constrains mobile communication expansion »as a whole as the last postconversion allocation of licences was conducted in 2000 the Range of free frequencies for networks GSM-900 till now is used, — the chief of service on public relations Beeline Irina Lelichenko speaks.
«900th frequency unlike 1800 is more widely used for network deployment in the remote corners of the country as the radius of action honeycombs in this range above, than in 1800», — is marked by the chief of PR-department life:) Oksana Rudjuk. As she speaks, it in turn allows operators to place base stations on longer distance from each other. At the same time, as she said, life:) wishes both to expand cover, and to raise its capacity in the remote cities and settlements. In «Kievstare» meanwhile the formal notice from NKRS in this matter was not. «As soon as it will appear, we will be ready to comment», — have noted in the company.
