All Moscow buses, trolleybuses and trams will be equipped with free wireless Internet connection by the end of this year, news website M24.ru reported Wednesday, citing the city’s transportation authority Mosgortrans.
Free Wi-Fi is currently available on 4,000 buses, trams and trolleybuses around the city.
“The new service is gaining popularity among passengers. More than 250,000 users have registered with the Mosgortrans_Free network since the start of the project in February,” general director of Mosgortrans Yevgeny Mikhailov was quoted as saying by M24.ru.
Also by the end of the year, free Wi-Fi will become available at 450 of Moscow’s bus stops, according to the city’s Transport Department.
In the Moscow subway, WiFi has been available on all lines since December 2014, covering over 5,400 cars. The network delivers up to 100 Mbps per train, generating up to 7o TB of Internet traffic across the network daily.
Last year in San Jose, California, Maxima Telecom’s WiFi network in the Moscow subway was honored at the WBA Wi-Fi Industry Awards as the “Best Wi-Fi Deployment in a City or Public Area.” Task complexity and scale, the approach to monetization, service quality, and market impact were among the jury’s key criteria.
This story contains excerpts from an article published in The Moscow Times.
