Internet connection on trains between Moscow and St. Petersburg has become uninterrupted

Mobile Internet is now available on the Oktyabrskaya Railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg - the largest Russian operators have covered the 650-kilometer route. This follows from the results of testing conducted in early April by TelecomDaily, which were reviewed by Izvestia. Just over a year ago, this figure was about 90%, the company notes.

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The researchers paid special attention to the study of communication quality in Sapsany. The specifics are in the speeds (up to 250 km/h) at which the Peregrine Falcons travel, which imposes special requirements on the organization of communication. In particular, operators have to install special receiving and transmitting equipment in these express trains. The measurements showed that high-speed mobile Internet is available to passengers, on average, in 93% of the trip time, and on the move the average speed is 12.3 Mb/s in the direction of the subscriber, the authors of the study emphasize.

As for voice communication, 99% of the line is now covered by it, so the famous remark of passengers traveling by train from Moscow to St. Petersburg: "I'm in Sapsan, I can be hard to hear," is gradually becoming a thing of the past, added Denis Kuskov, CEO of TelecomDaily.

The railway between Moscow and St. Petersburg is considered the largest in Russia in terms of passenger traffic and attractive to operators in terms of passenger safety, said Leonid Konik, a partner at ComNews Research. According to him, it is unthinkable for any business person, or even just a modern person, to sit for four hours in the afternoon without the Internet. But for decades, this highway has been deprived of connectivity, he added.

Telephony and connection to the mobile Internet of railways and passengers is an old topic, it is almost as old as cellular communications in the Russian Federation, said Konstantin Ankilov, CEO of TMT Consulting. It is encouraging that the problem has been solved on almost the main railway in Russia, but problems with voice communication and the Internet are present on almost all others, he added. In his opinion, telephony or network modernization is now necessary for almost half or even more of the length of Russian railways.

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Roadside coverage: Internet connection on trains between Moscow and St. Petersburg has become uninterrupted