Penza, 10 December 2013. PenzaNews. The results of the work of OJSC VimpelCom (TM Beeline) were summed up during the press conference on Tuesday, December 10. It was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the commercial launch of the network in Penza.

As the director of the branch Viktor Orlov noted, since the launch of the network in Penza – 8 December 2003 – subscribers of all the districts and areas of the region recognized the quality of the services rendered, and at present every third person of the region uses mobile communication and the Internet from the Beeline company.

He reminded that the first VimpelCom base station was set up on 69, Prospekt Pobedy St, and at the time of the commercial launch there worked 15 base stations in the network – currently it covers the territory with over 90% of the population of the city and the region.

“Within these 10 years, we have launched dozens of successful tariffs, built a few hundred of base stations, hooked hundreds of thousands of subscribers, but the most important thing we did was laying a solid foundation for further development and implementation of the newest technologies of cellular communication, which will allow our subscribers to always get high quality service and be the first,” Viktor Orlov said.

The director of the Penza branch of OJSC VimpelCom stressed that today the company is taking a number of measures to develop the network taking into account the forthcoming LTE implementation and is working on updating the transport system and the radio access network.

“By the end of the year as a result of the technology HSPA+ implementation, the speed of 3G network in Penza will be increased up to 21,6 Mbit/s.” Viktor Orlov said.

Responding to the question about 4G launch, he remarked that it could happen as early as 2014, explaining that the network needs to be prepared for the standard.

Speaking of the end of “mobile slavery” – the issue, particularly interesting for the participants of the press conference – Viktor Orlov said that in Penza the process is at the stage of applications submitting, the number of which is small yet.

“If we take the whole country, there are cases of shifting to Beeline from other operators. However, now all business processes are being worked out, so we can call it a testing mode,” the speaker said, noting that the company, in its turn, is eager to render services of phone numbers shifting.

“In general, the main prerogative for us now is to become even more convenient mobile operator, which focuses only on clients. Our new slogan reflects this purpose: “Easy. Convenient. For you,” Viktor Orlov concluded.

At the end of the event there were given statistics: total duration of talk of Beeline subscribers in Penza for 10 years amounted to more than 10 thousand years, their SMS messages could compile the novel “War and Peace” of 10 thousand copies, and the total traffic of data transfer in the mobile network equals to 2 million full-length films.

To celebrate the 10th birthday, Beeline presented its first subscribers who connected to the network in 2003 with smart phones Samsung Galaxy Pocket Neo.