Penza, 24 March 2015. PenzaNews. The home Internet access speed offered by MTS in the Volga Federal District has increased in 2014 for new customers.

“The average Internet access speed in the Volga Federal District for new customers grew by 50%, from 40.3 Mbps in 2013 to 57.7 Mbps in 2014. The town of Arzamas in the Nizhny Novgorod region showed the fastest growth for MTS connection: the speed grew by five times in average,” the press service of Mobile TeleSystems informed PenzaNews agency.

Accroding to the company, the largest MTS home Internet access speed varied the most among the towns of the Volga Federal District in Kirovo-Chepetsk of the Kirov region, the town of Volzhsk by Mariy El, and Ulyanovsk.

“The connection speed grew the fastest in Arzamas, Volzhsk, and the towns of Kuznetsk and Zarechny in the Penza region where MTS has completely retooled its wired network and laid down its own trunk connection cables,” the press service noted.

According to the company, Kuznetsk, Zarechny, Arzamas, Volzhsk and Sarov were among the top 5 VFD towns with the largest average connection speed growth for new home Internet users in 2014 compared to 2013.

“The growth was driven by high demand on ‘traffic-heavy’ content: streaming video, torrents and audio recordings, as well as Double Play and Triple Play packages that now constitute over 60% of plans for new MTS users. The fastest connection speed, avg. 68.1 Mbps for new users, was registered in the town of Kirovo-Chepetsk. Volzhsk, with the average landline Internet access speed at 67.6 Mbps, was the second, and Kuznetsk was the third with its average broadband access speed for new users at 63.8 Mbps. Ulyanovsk and Kirov took the fourth and the fifth place with 62.4 and 60.8 Mbps respectively,” MTS said.

The press speakers pointed out that the demand for 50-100 Mbps home Internet access grew by 85% by the end of 2014, while the number of households using the 100 Mbps MTS line in VFD tripled in a year.