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Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has announced the launch of Russia’s first large-scale 5G pilot user network, utilising the 4.9GHz frequency band, in 14 popular locations in Moscow, where MTS subscribers using compatible smartphones will be able to connect to unlimited 5G internet at speeds up to 1.5Gbps with minimal network latency.

Russia’s Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched pilot 5G mmWave network zones at the Tomsk State University of Control Systems & Radioelectronics (TUSUR) and at the nearby production plant of Russian telecoms equipment manufacturer Mikran.

Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), partnered Ericsson to test dynamic redistribution of frequencies between 4G LTE and 5G NR networks, demonstrating methods for low-cost deployment of wide 5G coverage utilising existing LTE infrastructure. The tests carried out at MTS’ offices in Ufa used a commercial 5G non-standalone (NSA) 1800MHz/2100MHz base station with Ericsson Radio System equipment utilising the Instant Ericsson Spectrum […]

MTS, which launched its Moscow 5G mmWave pilot zone soon after Tele2, announced hitting speeds of 2.1Gbps in partnership with Nokia, using a pre-production Samsung S10 5G smartphone featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 platform and X50 modem. MTS is also partnering Huawei in its 5G piloting programme.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., announced on August 24 its work with the Department for Information Technologies of Moscow, Russian mobile operators, equipment and software vendors. The project will support the testing and deployment of Europe’s first 5G millimeter wave network in Moscow this fall ahead of wider launches Next Year. The Moscow project will enable the […]

MTS and Samsung signed a MoU to ‘jointly explore and advance new telecommunications technologies’ on the path towards 5G. Both companies will work together on technologies including advanced carrier aggregation, MIMO, LTE Broadcast (eMBMS) as well as Internet of Things (IoT) technologies such as NB-IoT and LTE-Machine (LTE-M). 

MTS and Nokia achieved 5G tests. The operator’s tests using Nokia equipment resulted in mobile data rates of up to 4.5Gbps using 200MHz of aggregated frequency bandwidth. By 2018 the partners are planning to operate a 5G system on a segment of MTS’ commercial network to coincide with football’s World Cup in Russia that year.

MTS and Ericsson tested mobile 5G technology on a prototype Russian smartphone, claiming record data transmission speeds of up to 25Gbps. The latest tests were conducted at a Moscow stadium where a base station operating in the 14.5GHz-15.3GHz range transmitted data to a moving smartphone at 25Gbps. MTS and Ericsson tested 5G usage scenarios including […]