Russian telecom operator MTS reported records of its base station located at the Bellingshausen polar station in Antarctica. This was reported by the company's press service.
The MTS station began operating in February 2024 and has registered 7,556 subscribers from 171 operators in 79 countries in one year.
Throughout the year, there were more roaming subscribers at the Bellingshausen station than local ones. At the same time, in the "summer" season, the number of guests increased to more than a hundred times and exceeded the number of MTS subscribers by orders of magnitude — from 50-70 times in February-April to 230-240 times in November-December. At the peak in December, almost 3,700 guest subscribers were registered in the MTS network at the polar station.
The leaders in terms of the number of subscribers were the Chinese operator China Mobile, the American T-Mobile, and the Philippine Smart Philippines. The Chilean Telefonica Moviles stood out in terms of call duration. The most popular services among foreign subscribers were SMS and data transmission.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that the first Russian-made 5G base stations were included in the register of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
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