In 2021, the traffic of mobile Internet in Moscow grew by 60 percent. At the same time, the metropolitan subscribers call steel on average by 46 percent more. This follows from the study of the Beeline. Analyst service, which considered how the dynamics of mobile Internet consumption and voice traffic over the past year. In addition, the service analyzed who else uses the Internet and calls on the phone – women or men, and also revealed the most active age category in the consumption of these mobile services.
The study showed that during the year, Moscow men talk on a mobile phone more than women. But Muscovites are ahead of men to use mobile Internet traffic.
The inhabitants of the capital under 25 years old began to talk on the phone one and a half times more, but the mobile Internet in this age category became more than twice. People in the category from 25 to 45 years, on the contrary, more prefer to call, but the growth of Internet traffic is also very significant – by 43 percent.
Among those who are from 45 to 65 years old, the growth of the Internet and voice traffic is about the same, at the level of 40 percent during the year. In turn, people over 65 became much more actively using voice and mobile Internet services. Thus, voice traffic among such clients of Beeline has grown by 53 percent over the year, and the mobile Internet consumption has increased by 56 percent.
All this has become possible largely due to updating and upgrading the biode network infrastructure. For the first half of 2021, the Company built in Moscow and the Moscow region more than 3 thousand new base stations to improve the stability of voice and mobile Internet. The year earlier Beeline put a record on the tempo and the volume of construction of the new network in the history of the company in Moscow. The volume of investments in 2020 in the development of the network amounted to 15.5 billion rubles – it is several times more than in previous years.
In addition, Beeline increased the coating and the speed of the mobile Internet due to the redistribution of the frequency range. The operator first in the capital completely translated the range of 2100 of 3G to the 4G network, which made it possible to increase the average speed of the mobile Internet in Moscow for more than 30 percent, and peak speed – up to 350 megabits per second. At the same time, the main focus of the company remains the continuity of the Internet – throughout the following paths, the user receives a seamless and stable Internet connection.
The study was carried out among the subscriber base of Beeline throughout Russia at the beginning of the 4th quarter of 2021. The results are based on the processing of an impersonal array of large data on Internet traffic consumption by users who have agreed to data processing, for October 2021 and the same period of 2020.