Mobile phone users are leaving Moscow due to the spread of coronavirus infection, employees of mobile companies told Vedomosti. According to MTS, more than 15% of its subscribers left Moscow from March 25 to April 8. 79% of those who left moved to the Moscow Region, 21% went to other regions.
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Subscribers return to their “home” regions, including from Moscow, says a representative of Megafon. Since the beginning of April, the number of those who used mobile communications in guest networks has decreased by 50%, and the flow of those returning home is increasing, he says.
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VimpelCom and Tele2 do not provide data on migration of subscribers. Earlier, a Tele2 representative spoke about the growing demand for routers and Internet connections using LTE-450 technology, which is well suited for use outside the city, in particular in summer residences.
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Tens of thousands of Moscow subscribers have moved to nearby regions, for example, to the Yaroslavl, Tula, Nizhny Novgorod regions, said Denis Kuskov, director general of Telecom Daily. Someone goes home, someone went to wait for the outbreak of coronavirus in the summer cottages near Moscow, he says. Some of those leaving Moscow are those who, due to the closure of enterprises and organizations, were left without work, Kuskov notes.
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