PJSC Rostelecom, which provides Internet access to small settlements, declined to comment.

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Following a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects and the State Council commissions on socio-economic development, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a list of instructions. In particular, the head of state instructed the Russian government to consider the issue of ensuring stable communications and high-speed Internet access in small and border settlements, remote areas and in areas with large populations, as well as on federal highways and general-purpose railways.

The President has qatar whatsapp resourcepreviously given instructions to provide federal highways with communications and internet access in small settlements. However, now, in addition to this, the instruction also singles out border settlements.

Leading analyst of Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin explained what this could be connected with: "Border settlements have geographical problems. These are territories of special control. Based on this, providing communications to such territories is not always easy. We can recall, for example, the Kuril Islands, Kaliningrad Region or other places where, for various reasons, settlements located close to the border do not receive the Internet. This story has been going on for many years, and the problem needs to be solved."

The press service of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation told a ComNews correspondent that active work is being carried out on all instructions from the president within the framework of the meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and the State Council commissions.


Mobile operators are also involved in providing federal roads and populated areas with communications. "Beeline" is actively involved in providing small populated areas with stable communications and the Internet," noted a representative of the press service of PJSC VimpelCom (brand "Beeline").

A representative of the press service of PJSC MegaFon spoke about the work done by the telecom operator to date: "We are systematically working to equip small settlements with mobile communications and have already provided over 90% of settlements with a population of 1,000 people or more with an LTE network. At the same time, MegaFon is also equipping federal roads with a fourth-generation network (4G). We have currently covered over 80% of all key highways. At the same time, the pace of providing communications is fully in line with the decision of the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) dated August 2, 2021."

Regarding the problem of covering all long-distance railway lines with communications, Eldar Murtazin believes that this story will continue with the advent of a satellite group: "The problem is that we have a huge country. Very often, railway lines go tens of kilometers through unpopulated areas, and providing communications base stations there is pointless. We need to wait for the advent of a satellite group in order to provide rolling stock with dishes that will use the signal and distribute it. Even on the Moscow-St. Petersburg section, where the high-speed Sapsan train runs, it took about six years for cellular operators to modernize the networks. This was very expensive even in a busy region of the country with a huge economically advantageous passenger flow. Therefore, in the current situation, it is impossible to instantly provide the entire railway with communications in the usual stationary way."