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More than four thousand more residents of the Kaliningrad region received access to modern mobile communications in 2024. Work on the construction of communications infrastructure and the launch of base stations was carried out by Rostelecom in 14 settlements of the region as part of the second stage of the federal project "Elimination of Digital Inequality" (EDI 2.0).
Alexey Semenov, Director of the Kaliningrad branch of PJSC Rostelecom:
"All the villages where base communication stations were built this year were not in the stable coverage area of ??mobile operators. And since from a commercial point of view it is not profitable for providers to go to such settlements, without a federal project to eliminate digital inequality the situation would hardly have changed in the near future. But now the residents of these villages have access to the same digital services as residents of large cities."
Anastasia Golubykh, Acting Minister of Digital Technologies and Communications of the Kaliningrad Region:
"Eliminating the digital divide is an important infrastructure and social project that will continue in 2025. Residents of villages can use modern digital services, government services online, and always be in touch with their family and friends."
Base stations are connected mainly to fiber-optic communication lines, which allows data to be transmitted at high speed, as well as significantly increasing the coverage of populated areas with digital infrastructure. The project "Elimination of Digital Inequality" is being implemented by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation and PJSC Rostelecom, communication services are provided by Rostelecom's subsidiary - mobile operator T2.
Rostelecom completed the first stage of the federal project "Elimination of Digital Inequality" in the Kaliningrad region in 2020. Since 2016, the company has organized free public Internet access points with a range of up to 100 meters in 127 villages in the region with a population of 250 to 500 people.
The second stage of the project "Elimination of digital inequality" of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation and PJSC Rostelecom has been implemented since 2021 - in small settlements with a population of 100 to 500 people, base stations are installed that provide residents with modern mobile communications and Internet access using LTE (4G) technology. The list of settlements in which communications may appear first is formed annually based on voting on State Services.
Then technical specialists check the connection conditions in the places chosen by the voting participants. After the base stations are put into operation, the provider's representatives go to the villages to draw up contracts and hand over the SIM cards.
