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Rostelecom has completed the construction of four cellular base stations in the Arkhangelsk Region. The work was carried out as part of the second stage of the federal project Elimination of Digital Inequality (EDI 2.0).
New communication facilities were put into operation in the village of Ruskovera and the village of Shardomen in the Pinezhsky District, the village of Lastola in the Primorsky District, and in the village of Sosnovka in the Konoshsky District. To connect the base stations to the existing network, the companys employees laid almost 2 km of fiber-optic cable. The expansion of the telecom infrastructure affected almost 1,200 people in total. Before the work, none of the specified settlements were in the zone of stable coverage of mobile operators.
Pavel Okladnikov, Minister of Communications and Information Technology of the Arkhangelsk Region: Advanced technologies are coming to the most remote places of the Arkhangelsk Region. To date, since the launch of the UCN 2.0 program, communication equipment has been installed in 71 settlements in the region.
Andrey Prishchemikhin, Director of the Arkhangelsk branch of PJSC Rostelecom:
The implementation of the UCN 2.0 target plan is being implemented in stages, in accordance with the deadlines set by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation. We have now provided high-quality mobile communications to 4 more settlements located in different parts of the region. In total, since the beginning of the second stage of the project, Rostelecom has already laid more than 600 km of fiber-optic cable to connect base stations. The volumes of construction are impressive, and the territories are often hard to access, so putting almost every facility into operation is a difficult technical task, which we are successfully coping with.
The target plan for the construction of base stations is annually formed on the public services portal through voting organized by the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation). Villages, towns and villages that receive the most votes are included in the target program.
Rostelecom is implementing the UCN 2.0 project commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development. The T2 operator (a subsidiary of Rostelecom) is involved as a competence center in the project. UCN 2.0 provides for the emergence of modern cellular communications, including high-speed Internet access, in small towns with a population of 100 to 500 people.
