Mobile carriers have unveiled plans to cope with network jamming during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet. MobiFone plans to send out around 30 mobile base transceiver stations, especially to crowded places with high cell traffic, during the long holiday.

The mobile cell sites can improve the quality of 3G and 4G services in places like the Sword Lake and Huong Pagoda in Ha Noi, Yen Tu Pagoda in Quang Ninh, the Han River Bridge in Da Nang, and Nguyen Hue pedestrian square in Ho Chi Minh City.

VinaPhone will increase its bandwidth and capacity for its 3G network on 900MHz frequency.

It will also focus on the upgrade and expansion of coverage areas, prevention of call, 3G and SMS jamming in key areas, as well as update of information security plans.

VinaPhone installed more than 7,900 3G cell towers last year, bringing the total number of 2G/3G stations to over 54,200 nationwide. The coverage has increased by roughly 2.5 times over the previous year.

Meanwhile, MobiFone has doubled its network capacity over 2015, with nearly 10,000 3G cell sites installed.

Statistics of MobiFone showed that a large number of its customers traveling back to their hometowns in southwest, central provinces and the northern delta during Tet have in recent days led to a rise of 2 or 3 times in calls and text messages compared to normal days.

(Source: thesaigontimes)