MOTIV, the local telecommunications group, is planning to fully upgrade its own regional area network by the end of the first quarter of the year.

MOTIV’s RAN will employ the so-called New Generation Network - the equipment that enables a mobile operator to offer its customers a much wider range of telecommunication services like streaming video, IP-telephone connection, and high speed Internet connection for optimizing paperwork, e-trading, distance learning, and using complex telematics-based systems.

'NGN is shaped in a way that allows one to transfer any type of information in a single IP-package format. We’ll be able to come up with over fifty new services using NGN,’ MOTIV’s press officer Elena Radchenko said to UrBC.

'What is more, using NGN means we no longer have to cooperate with numerous providers. Now, one can get nice quality Internet connection, data transmission services, or cable TV directly from MOTIV,’ she added.

MOTIV was Ural Federal District’s first alternative operator to offer RAN services in September 2006. The company had already set up nine connection points in the region by December 2007. Moreover, the number of these points will have doubled by March 2008. Apart from operating in Sverdlovsk Region, MOTIV is also working on transit area communication centers in Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, and Tyumen Regions as well as in Yamal, Yugra, and Perm Territory.