Yadro CEO Alexey Shelobkov said that over 1,500 engineers in three R&D centers - in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod - are already working on the development of LTE base stations with the 5G-ready function. According to him, in the second quarter of 2025, Yadro plans to begin pilot production of hardware platforms for base stations at the Yadro Fab Dubna plant, which opened in April 2023, and to establish serial production of base stations in 2027-2028. Alexey Shelobkov estimated the total volume of Yadro Group's target investments in the creation of domestic base stations at more than 30 billion rubles.
Dmitry Lakontsev called for estonia whatsapp number database the faster creation and launch of Russian 5G equipment. He emphasized that Russia has dropped out of the top hundred countries in the rating of median mobile Internet access speed by the online service Speedtest from Ookla LLC. According to this rating, Russia currently occupies 102nd place with an access speed in the direction of a cellular subscriber of 23.97 Mbit/s. The UAE tops this rating (324.92 Mbit/s), followed by Qatar (243.95 Mbit/s), Kuwait (189.11 Mbit/s), China (161.56 Mbit/s) and Norway (153.18 Mbit/s). "The median speed is directly related to the capacity and stability of the cellular network, and its growth can only be achieved through 5G," said the CEO of Irtea LLC.
Vladimir Freinkman, Director of Marketing and Systems Research at NTC Protey LLC, is convinced that the main realistic consumer of 5G services is the departmental segment, solving the problems of automation and industrial development. "In a number of cases, in industrial projects, it is sufficient to implement 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) networks using a universal 4G/5G-ready core, which allows for the rapid implementation and deployment of networks," Vladimir Freinkman emphasized.
"NTC Protey" is developing the core of the mobile network. As Vladimir Freinkman explained, "the company is ready to cover everything that is between the billing and the radio part." Since 2021, "NTC Protey" has been providing support for 5G NSA, in 2022 it developed a prototype of the 5G core and is now ready to pilot its functions. In 2024, the company intends to start pilot projects with the 5G network core in Standalone (SA) mode. Vladimir Freinkman sees the implementation of these developments on private networks in 2024-2025, readiness for the implementation of individual components on public 5G SA networks - in 2025-2026, and comprehensive implementation on public networks - in 2026-2027.
Representatives of Bulat LLC were present at the event, but did not speak, so nothing new was revealed about the status of the BS development by this company. Behind the scenes, the participants of the meeting claimed that Bulat is trying to localize in Russia the solution of the Chinese company Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd, which has a development for private 4G (pLTE) networks.
Director of Mobile Solutions at Bulat LLC Dmitry Telichko told a ComNews correspondent: "Bulat is implementing a project to create a base station using domestic software based on a localized 5G-ready hardware platform."
Concluding the event at the Russia exhibition and forum, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, said, addressing Russian developers: "We are all looking at you, we are always close and ready to help, all our hopes are pinned on you." Answering a question from a ComNews correspondent about the situation with new frequency ranges for 5G networks, Maksut Shadayev said that the 3.4-3.8 GHz band in the Russian Federation is still unavailable to cellular operators, so the ministry offers them the 4.9 GHz and 700 MHz ranges - the latter the Ministry of Digital Development intends to free from analog TV broadcasting.