Rostelecom. In the country’s best interests

Access to information and communication technology is essential for a country as vast and big as Russia. The digital divide is not only a divide between people and regions, but between information and ideas. We understand, that eliminating digital inequality is key to improving Russia’s educational and economic prospects, which is why in 2014 we set ourselves a goal to address this issue. Since 2014 Rostelecom has been the sole universal service provider in the entire Russian territory maintaining operation of 148 thousand universal service payphones and 21 thousand public Internet access offices. Another 13.6 thousand localities will be provided with Internet access to require installation of over 200 thousand km of new fiber-optic cable lines. We have established a separate strategic line of business in order to implement the world’s largest deployment of fiber and high-speed Internet access sites calling it “elimination of the digital inequality project”.

Rostelecom has been providing video-surveillance during the Unified Final Exams across the entire country for some years now. To this end, we make use of the experience gained during the preparation to all-Russia presidential elections, held in early 2012. Russian programmers developed a complex software infrastructure for the project and were also successful in creating not only a unique, but also an extremely easy-to-use system, that can be turned on at a click of a button.

Rostelecom invites higher education institutions, research institutes, regional innovation clusters, small and medium innovative companies, developers and scientists for collaboration to implement the Innovative Development Program in the areas of geo-information systems, IIoT and a number of others.

Rostelecom drives Russia’s digital transformation through improvement and development of public e-services and functionality, based on a rich portfolio of e-government solutions. Backed by extensive experience and robust security, Rostelecom designs and develops new systems and tools, enabling better quality, reliability and security of all elements of the e-government infrastructure. Geared to the specific processes and imperatives of the public sector, our comprehensive solutions are aimed at boosting efficiency, and delivering new and enhanced services for citizens and other stakeholders. One of Rostelecom’s key projects in this space is the Unified National Biometric platform, which in the future will contribute to various citizen-friendly sectors, including finance, healthcare, education, retail, e-commerce, and will drive end-to-end digital transformation in Russia.

We support companies in successfully mastering digital change and turning their initial visions into concrete corporate success. We have developed a program to support exciting and promising SaaS products. We always look for new investment opportunities to expand our network and help SaaS technologies become available nationwide.

Rostelecom strives to promote innovation in Russian and hence, supports higher education and research institutions, innovation clusters, SMEs, developers and scientists in implementing the Innovative Development Program across a range of areas, such as geo-information systems, IIoT, and others.

We are Russia’s partner for digital change. Appointed to develop the national cloud platform, we are in charge of shaping the cloud infrastructure in Russia, supporting the government bodies, business and citizens in areas, ranging from healthcare, education, security, to housing and utilities, property and land ownership relations and other. We are proud to be in a position to offer our clients high-tech services and cutting-edge technologies that significantly improve efficiency of business and day to day life, whether it be private, public or state sector.

In 2014 Rostelecom started construction of Kamchatka–Sakhalin–Magadan submarine fiber-optic cable line, which is currently one of the biggest develop major telecom infrastructure projects and is in solving the digital inequality elimination issues in the Far-East region of Russia. For Rostelecom, the fiber-optic cable ‘Sakhalin-Magadan-Kamchatka’ is another striking opportunity to tackle the shortage of modern communications services for households, corporates, and public sector in the Far East, and we are pleased to be involved in a critical telecommunications infrastructure project, important to the entire country.

Rostelecom started to implement the Undersea Fiber Optics Line project “Sakhalin to Kuril Islands” back in 2017. The line will connect Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to other cities, including Kurilsk (Iturup island), Yuzhno-Kurilsk (Kunashir island) and Krabozavodskoye village (Shikotan island). 

The total Line span is circa 831 kilometres. The throughput capacity is 40 Gbps on each of these parts of the Line, with a possibility to expand it up to maximum capacity of 80x100 Gbps.