the Company "MTT" until the end of 2018 plans to start networks for Internet of things in five cities: to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod.
director general told "MTT" toAbout it Yevgeniy Vasilyev during the press breakfast devoted to results of activity of companies in 2017.
Yevgeniy Vasilyev reported that IoT-networks (Internet of things, Internet of things) will work at base of technologies as LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Networks).
bycompanies will be able to be connected To networks in five cities small businesses, so-called SOHO clients (small office home office), general director specified "MTT". For big customers the infrastructure will be created "from scratch".
by words Yevgeniy Vasilyev, in "MTT" consider Internet of things as the perspective direction.
"Need in technologies becomes ripe and in the retail market, in agriculture, and in the sphere transports and logistics and in many others", - Yevgeniy Vasilyev told.
further company plans to render toservices and in other cities.
IoT-strategy of "MTT" includes three directions: applications programming, services platforms for Internet of things both sale and IoT-equipment service.
By estimates of companies, the income of "MTT" from this direction in four years will make about 5 billion rubles. "Investments will make the current year some honeycombs of millions rubles, - Yevgeniy Vasilyev specified. - But 2018 for us pilot, further will depend on how affairs will go, what questions we will face as far as we will be sure that the way chosen by us correct. I think that next year the sum of these of investments will be multiple more".
Yevgeniy Vasilyev also declared a successful conclusion of transition of companies on a new business model - from the telecommunication operator to provider of intellectual decisions.
In particular, in 2017 all new directions of business – Unified Communications (UC), Telecom API and infrastructure decisions (MVNE%2B), showed the essential growth while "classical" services endured predictable recession of the income. Already 70% of profit of "MTT" make B2B-solutions while the share of services for the operator market was reduced to 30%. Yevgeniy Vasilyev predicted that in a year this figure will be reduced still twice.
the All-market trend on decrease in the income from transit of a traffic was almost completely compensated toby profit growth in Telecom API and the MTT <12> Business platform. Thus, despite some decrease in the general financial performance of "MTT" (the revenue in 2017 decreased by 1% in in comparison with 2016, the indicator of EBITDA decreased by 8% in comparison with 2016), the new directions of business companies showed high positive dynamics. Growth of the income from Unified Communications segment in 2017 made 18% in comparison with 2016, Telecom API – 75% year by a year.
Investments companies on realization "a package Summer", by words Yevgeniy Vasilyev, will exceed 100 million rubles soon. He specified that expenses of "MTT" will be below, than at federal mobile network operators as it business is not connected with the admission of a "heavy" content.
Yevgeniy Vasilyev added that for storage "MTT" already have technical solutions, the corresponding equipment is bought now.
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