MTS and Ericsson Announce Partnership to Deploy a 5G-Ready Private Network for Severstal

Mobile TeleSystems PJSC, Russia’s largest mobile operator and a leading provider of media and digital services, will build a commercial 5G-ready private network for the iron ore mining and processing plant JSC Karelsky Okatysh, which is part of the world's largest steel and mining company PJSC Severstal. The network will be built on the Ericsson Dedicated Network solution.

MTS will build for Karelsky Okatysh on the territory of quarries and production facilities in the Republic of Karelia a dedicated LTE / 5G-ready network for dispatching voice and video communication systems, positioning and video monitoring of transport and mining equipment, as well as emergency notification and operational management of the production complex.

The network is scheduled to launch in April 2022. For the second stage of the project, it is planned to modernize solutions for the automation of processes for the extraction, transportation and processing of ore, as well as solutions for the collection, processing, storage and visualization of data.

The network will be built on the Ericsson Dedicated Networks solution, which includes the cloud-based packet core of the operator-class Ericsson network. For the first stage of the project, the network will operate in the LTE standard with the possibility of a smooth and fast upgrade to 5G.