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project for them. It is designed for three years. The total length of the project is 7000 km. These are mostly hard-to-reach areas: forests, swamps, mountains, etc. The project is more social. Its total cost is 11 billion rubles. We have been waiting for funding from the Ministry of Digital Development for two years now; they should transfer funds to us in the third quarter of 2024. The operator will be Arctic Telecom.

Branch of PJSC Rostelecom luxembourg whatsapp resource Alexander Loginov believes that despite the sanctions and difficult times, there will be no better time than now to build "digital roads" and develop the Arctic with optics. "We have everything for this. Our companies make cable products, trunk multiplexers. It's high time to concentrate, to make one federal project. Rostelecom is ready to help financially, to invest in this project. General concentration will allow us to ensure that all residents of the Arctic receive the most modern communication services. But we cannot do without a federal program," he is sure.

Dmitry Samartsev, Head of Service Planning at the Long-Distance and International Communications Department at Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), supported Rosatom's initiative to consolidate the market: "We need some synergy among market participants. It is very difficult to act alone. Only a consolidated approach and government support will help us. We all understand the geography of the Arctic zone very well. A base station can be placed somewhere. In Naryan-Mar, for example, a small local data processing center (DPC) can be built. So far, we have found a technical intermediate solution between a cell and a full-fledged base station. The only issue is the deployment of satellite infrastructure. The TAOS project can be considered one of the options for developing the Arctic through the developed concept."