Sky Link Ekaterinburg, a trademark of Uralwestcom JSC, is providing mobile broadband for users in the Ural region of Russia using Nortel´s CDMA 1xEV-DO Rev A solution. Sky Link Ekaterinburg can offer mobile broadband coverage to its expanding customer base with a range of applications that include high-speed Internet and broadband business services and video surveilance. Consumers will benefit from faster web browsing including video and two-way file transfer. Businesses can use VPN services for corporate data access and multimedia communications on the go.
"Nortel´s 1xEV-DO Rev A solution will enable us to meet growing customer demand for a wide range of broadband real-time wireless services, especially bandwidth-hungry services such as video surveillance and video conferencing," said Valery Molchanov, general director, Sky Link Ekaterinburg, Uralwestcom. "The current project continues our successful cooperation over the past five years with Nortel, whose experience and expertise in mobile technologies have enabled Sky Link Ekaterinburg to take a leading market position with best-in-class broadband coverage and services."
The new CDMA EV-DO Rev A network will support significantly improved speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps for downloading to compatible devices and transmitting of 1.8 Mbps, compared to pre-network upgrade speeds of 2.4 Mbps and 153 Kbps, respectively. These improved capabilities will enable higher speeds for wireless Internet, a wider range of applications and more features for already existing services.
"Sky Link Ekaterinburg, by utilizing Nortel solutions, has already brought an affordable and powerful mobile broadband experience to the citizens of Ekaterinburg, the major city of the Sverdlovsk region. This new solution from the Canadian vendor, based on 3G Mobile broadband EV-DO Rev A technologies, will now further enhance and extend the true broadband experience to provide always-on, seamless connections to business users and consumers of Sky Link Ekaterinburg across the Ural region," said Mr. Stan Cramton, president and CEO, RTDC.
"CDMA EV-DO Rev A is gaining momentum across Russia and Eastern Europe as operators migrate to faster, more advanced and cost-effective mobile technologies," said Sorin Lupu, president Eastern Europe, Nortel. "EV-DO Rev A technology is a key enabler of today´s era of Hyperconnectivity, where more and more people and applications want to be connected to the network with a variety of devices. UWC as well other CDMA Rev A customers are very well positioned to leapfrog directly with Nortel to Long Term Evolution, a 4G technology that will support mobile broadband at tens of Mbits per customer, in a very cost effective manner within the next 2 to 3 years."