📋 Tender Overview
Rostelecom in Karelia has launched modern mobile communications in the village of Maslozero and the village of Shalgovaara in the Medvezhyegorsk region. The work was carried out as part of the implementation of the second stage of the federal project Bridging the Digital Divide UTsN 2.0.Now local residents and their guests have access to stable cellular communications including high-speed Internet. Previously these settlements in which about 250 people permanently reside were not included in the coverage area of mobile operators.Earlier cellular communications and high-speed Internet have already appeared in the village of Khvoiny and the village of Nyukhcha in the Belomorsky district in the village of Unitsa in the Kondopozhsky district and in the village of Kinelahta in the Pryazha district.Rostelecom is implementing the UCN 2.0 project commissioned by the Ministry of Digital Development Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation. The Tele2 operator a subsidiary of Rostelecom is involved in the project as a competence center. UCN 2.0 provides for the emergence of modern cellular communications including high-speed Internet access in small settlements with a population of 100 to 500 people.