3G Network to appear in a Moscow subway station before the end of the year.

Until the end of 2009 in a Moscow subway station should receive the basic networks of third generation mobile communication (3G), writes the newspaper Kommersant. This was made possible after the successful completion of tests on the compatibility of frequency 3G networks and structures of the Ministry of Defense in the Moscow subway.
According to the head of the Moscow metro Dmitri Gaeva until the end of this year, subscribers will be able to take advantage of the MTS network 3G services at stations and subway cars. From the operators' Vimpelcom and Megafon "agreement on the deployment of 3G base stations in the Moscow metro has not yet been signed.
MTS expects to receive permission to use the subway 3G frequencies in the first half of 2009. Representatives of MTS told Kommersant that began tests on the compatibility of 3G networks and the frequency of war in the streets of Moscow. In the event of success, ITT expects to launch 3G network in the center and the main thoroughfares in the capital in 2010.
Third-generation cellular networks can speed data transfer up to 7.6 megabits per second. Currently, EDGE technology enables data transfer at speeds of 180 kilobits per second.
The first 3G network was launched in Russia in early October 2007 in St. Petersburg by Megafon. The company MTS passed in the commercial exploitation of its first Russian 3G network in late May 2008, "VimpelCom" - at the beginning of September 2008. Launching 3G networks in Moscow complicated by the fact that necessary for its operation frequency used by the defense ministry.