Equipping roads with communications is complicated by the almost complete lack of roadside infrastructure, including power lines, as well as difficult terrain. When emergencies occur on this kind of country roads, residents are forced to seek help from nearby settlements that are well-connected. Therefore, providing suburban routes with communications is a key social task. Using an existing base station as an example, this article calculates the attenuation and propagation range of a radio signal for LTE technology and GSM technology, provides a comparative analysis, and uses methods of mathematical modeling and system analysis.

Keywords: LTE, GSM, Okumura-Hata model, Lee model, Longley-Rice model