52 engineers of the Kcell including 13 — in twenty-four-hour mode maintained base stations operation at the sports facilities, where the 28th World Winter Universiade was conducted. Thereby, viewers could conduct online broadcast, share their impressions with relatives and friends in social networks. Kcell specialists checked availability of services, signal level and data transmission speed. Qualitative operation of network allowed for the Kcell and Activ subscribers to talk 6,4 million minutes during competitions that in transfer would be almost 4.4 thousand days of conversations.
Company engineers continuously controlled indications of each base station maintaining sports facilities of the Universiade. Operation of network at sports facilities was in special priority. All base stations operated in uninterrupted mode during competitions. During this time, the Kcell and Activ subscribers used 69 515 GB of internet traffic at all sports facilities in Almaty.
During opening ceremony which conducted in the Almaty Arena on January 29 company subscribers used more than 1 174 GB of internet traffic.
The largest quantity of internet traffic equal to 10 552 GB for 12 days of competitions were used in the Almaty Arena Multipurpose Complex. 6 969 GB of internet traffic was used On Halyk Arena stadium. On the third place — Baluan Sholak Sports Palace, where the Kcell and Active subscribers used 6 747 GB. The fourth place — Medal Plaza, there were used 5 794 GB of mobile internet.
Kcell, official mobile operator of the 28th Winter Universiade, also provided 7117 single call center for obtaining the information on all competitions and activities. Since starting of call center, operators answered to 4 883 questions, at that most of them are related to schedules of competitions and points of ticket sales.
We would like to remind that in December of 2016, the company implemented possibility to purchase tickets for the Universiade with Active number balance. Most of tickets bought with mobile phone balance were for such sport events as ice hockey, figure skating and ski jumping.Here and further information since January 28 — February 08, 2017