--- title: ZTE and Beeline complete CIS's first low-band FMM trial, easing low-band network congestion - Developing Telecoms description: ZTE Corporation, a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, and Kazakhstan operator Beeline Kazakhstan today announced the successful completion of a low-band FMM (Massive MIMO) trial in Shymkent. canonical_url: https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/vendor-news/21076-zte-and-beeline-complete-ciss-first-low-band-fmm-trial-easing-low-band-network-congestion.html language: en-GB date: 2026-11-04T14:54:35Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/vendor-news/21076-zte-and-beeline-complete-ciss-first-low-band-fmm-trial-easing-low-band-network-congestion.html. 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[Vendors](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/vendor-news.html)## ZTE and Beeline complete CIS's first low-band FMM trial, easing low-band network congestion Details STAFF WRITER Category: [Vendors](https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-business/vendor-news.html) 04 November 2026 1282 views ![ZTE and Beeline complete CIS's first low-band FMM trial, easing low-band network congestion](https://developingtelecoms.com/images/stories/Sponsored/zte/800x600/ZTE-Beeline-MIMO-1200.jpg) ZTE Corporation, a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, and Kazakhstan operator Beeline Kazakhstan today announced the successful completion of a low-band FMM (Massive MIMO) trial in Shymkent. Unlike regular-band FMM products, the trial focused on boosting capacity in the low-band wide-coverage layer. Results show that through a series of systematic innovations, ZTE's low-band FMM significantly eased low-band congestion without adding spectrum or new sites and simultaneously improved network capacity, user speeds, and service-carrying capability, offering Beeline Kazakhstan a valuable reference path toward better user experience. Low-band spectrum is the "foundation" of mobile networks: it travels far and penetrates buildings well. With low-band spectrum, a single base station can cover a large area, and notably improve user experience indoors and in weak-coverage areas. However, low-band spectrum resources are naturally scarce and bandwidth-limited — like a road with only a few lanes, it congests quickly as traffic grows. Meanwhile, due to the physical wavelength of low-band spectrum, it is more difficult to adopt a massive antenna array in low-band products. As a sustained innovation following ZTE and Beeline's successful large-scale deployment of regular-band FMM, the low-band FMM deployed in this trial is ZTE's self-developed next-generation massive MIMO product. To tackle low-band congestion, it involves new materials, new architectures, and new algorithms to overcome challenges such as oversized antenna arrays, breaking through the form-factor ceiling of low-band products, making the most of the scarce and limited low-band resource, maximizing the spectrum efficiency on existing bands. Trial results show that after existing traditional equipment was replaced with low-band FMM, busy-hour network capacity in low-band sectors increased to 2-3x that of traditional macro cells, and user download speeds doubled. The trial fully verified the engineering feasibility and performance advantages of adopting FDD Massive MIMO technology in low-band spectrum. It also challenged the traditional belief that low-band congestion can only be relieved by adding spectrum or sites, giving operators a new expansion path that avoids new spectrum or massive new sites acquisition. Wei Wei, CEO of ZTE Kazakhstan, said: "Low-band spectrum is essential for wide-area and indoor coverage, but it is scarce and congests quickly as traffic grows. This trial shows that low-band FMM can unlock the value of existing low-band assets without adding spectrum or requiring a large number of new sites. It reflects ZTE's end-to-end innovation from product definition and core technology R&D to field deployment, and we look forward to working with Beeline Kazakhstan to scale the solution in more high-traffic areas." Tungyshbek Battalkhanov, Chief Technical Officer, Beeline Kazakhstan, emphasized: "As traffic continues to grow, improving capacity in the low-band layer is critical to maintaining user experience. The trial with ZTE demonstrated a practical way to relieve low-band congestion and improve download speeds in Shymkent. We will continue to validate and deploy the solution in more high-traffic areas and build efficient, green, and intelligent networks for our customers." This trial is ZTE's first practice in wide-coverage capacity expansion in the CIS region, providing a replicable model for similar network construction and capacity unlocking in the region. The Shymkent deployment also offers a concrete regional case study for operators addressing low-band capacity challenges. For Kazakhstan users, the technology can mean faster downloads, more responsive data services, and more consistent indoor and weak-coverage experience in high-traffic areas — while improving capacity on existing low-band assets without adding spectrum or extensive new sites. With this approach, Beeline continuously fulfills its mission of building a greener, more efficient and intelligent mobile network, keeps bringing better technology to Beeline users and contributes to Kazakhstan's digital development and the improvement of people's digital lives. ## More Articles you may be Interested in... ```json { "@context": "http:\/\/schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Article", "author": { "@id": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/#manny_pham_133554b7e2" }, "dateModified": "2026-11-04T14:54:35Z", "datePublished": "2026-11-04T14:54:35Z", "description": "ZTE Corporation, a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, and Kazakhstan operator Beeline Kazakhstan today announced the successful completion of a low-band FMM (Massive MIMO) trial in Shymkent.", "headline": "ZTE and Beeline complete CIS's first low-band FMM trial, easing low-band network congestion", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Sponsored\/zte\/ZTE-Beeline-MIMO-1200.jpg", "caption": "", "description": "ZTE and Beeline complete CIS's first low-band FMM trial, easing low-band network congestion", "width": 1200, "height": 900 } ], "inLanguage": "en-GB", "mainEntityOfPage": { "@type": "WebPage", "url": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/vendor-news\/21076-zte-and-beeline-complete-ciss-first-low-band-fmm-trial-easing-low-band-network-congestion.html" }, "publisher": { "@id": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/#defaultPublisher" }, "url": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/vendor-news\/21076-zte-and-beeline-complete-ciss-first-low-band-fmm-trial-easing-low-band-network-congestion.html" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Manny Pham", "@id": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/#manny_pham_133554b7e2" }, { "@id": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/#defaultPublisher", "@type": "Organization", "url": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/", "logo": { "@id": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/#defaultLogo" }, "name": "Developing Telecoms" }, { "@id": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/#defaultLogo", "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/highResLogos\/dt-site-logo-440.png", "width": "440", "height": "122" } ] } ```