📋 Tender Overview
More than 300 participants gathered in St. Petersburg for the main expert platform on the topic of technological sovereignty in the telecom industry — the demo day of the industrial competence centers (ICC) "Mobile Communications" and "Fixed Communications". The northern capital was chosen for the event not only because the first landline telephone in the country started working here in 1882, and Russian mobile communications were born here in 1991, it is symbolic that the demo day took place in the Central Museum of Communications named after A.S. Today, St. Petersburg is becoming a key technocluster in the country for the development and production of domestic telecom equipment and industry software (SW). The demo day participants visited the technological facilities and lines of the Protey Scientific and Production Center and Russian Telecommunication Technologies (RTT — a joint venture of Rostelecom, Avangard and QTech).
The plenary session, moderated by the Chairman of the Mobile Communications Information Center and the President of Rostelecom Mikhail Oseevsky, was attended by the Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of Russia Dmitry Ugnivenko, the Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Sergey Mytenkov, the General Director of the Russian Foundation for Information Technology Development (RFRIT) Alexander Pavlov, the Director of the ANO Competence Center for Import Substitution in Information and Communication Technologies Ilya Massukh and top managers of telecom companies. Representatives of Russian operators (Rostelecom, MegaFon, VimpelCom) and vendors (Yadro Group of Companies, Bulat, Protey Scientific and Technical Center, Electra) in their speeches spoke about the status of the development of base stations and the core of the mobile network, which are already being tested on real networks, and commercial operation will begin in 2025. All roadmaps for the implementation of particularly significant projects approved by the ICC are being implemented in accordance with the schedules.
Mikhail Oseevsky, Chairman of the Mobile Communications Information Center, President of Rostelecom:
"We really appreciate the interest shown in the work of our ICC. Frankly, I did not expect that there would be so many participants. And this confirms the importance of what we are doing - building technological sovereignty, replacing technology and software suppliers that have become customary over the past couple of decades with domestic developments. Rostelecom is actively forming a production cluster of companies that are engaged in the development and production of the most modern telecom equipment, both operator and consumer levels. We visited the production and were convinced that these are no longer just words, but real sites and lines. With each month, quarter and half-year, we all together note that we are moving forward."
Dmitry Ugnivenko, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation:
"Demodays are an important event for our industry, for achieving technological sovereignty. They unite representatives, states, operators, customers and developers. Today we saw the facilities where domestic products are manufactured. We saw that life is in full swing there, there are orders, production volumes are growing. It is important not to stop, to continue developing, to conduct a dialogue with the country's leading universities on training new personnel for the communications industry. It is important to raise future specialists already from school, when a person thinks about choosing a future profession."
Alexander Pavlov, CEO of RFRIT:
"The ICC "Mobile Communications" has deservedly become an example for other competence centers in terms of its activity, expert development and openness of its activities. The main thing is that it represents the consolidated interests of real customers of telecom equipment and software interested in its quality and functionality. The project for developing domestic software for the mobile network core supported by RFRIT is being successfully implemented. And now we are working on a new round of selecting particularly significant projects and, I hope, by the end of the year we will announce a new large-scale and important project in the interests of the telecom industry."
The second session of the demo day, moderated by the CEO of the business publication Vedomosti Severo-Zapad Alexander Shchelkanov, was attended by the rector of the M.A. Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications Ruslan Kirichek, the director of the National Research University Higher School of Economics — St. Petersburg Anna Tyshchetskaya, the rector of the Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics Yuri Zazulya, the rector of MIREA — Russian Technological University Stanislav Kudzh, and the acting director of the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Evgeny Kruk. In their speeches, the heads of higher education institutions spoke about the experience of interaction and opening of specialized laboratories and departments with the country's leading technology companies, including Rostelecom and the Yadro group of companies. Universities closely monitor the development of the telecom market, study the needs of future employers and constantly modernize their curricula, including taking into account the Strategy for the Development of the Communications Industry until 2035.
