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General Director of Edinstvo LLC Tatyana Mokhova advocates for the development of fiber-optic communication lines in the territories of the Far North, because there is no such thing as too little backup communication. "Over the past three years, we have had several cases of simultaneous breaks in the main channels not in our area of ​​responsibility. At the same time, a major catastrophe occurs at enterprises. Therefore, we strongly support the TAOS concept. And there are two main arguments on this account. Firstly, the concept should solve the issue of systemicity, combining several separate projects luxembourg whatsapp resource into a single mechanism. Secondly, in the current state of affairs, projects in the Arctic will never pay off. Because the population density is low, and the cost of construction and maintenance is colossal. Therefore, the TAOS concept should also solve the issue of minimizing the costs of construction and operation. If work of this class takes place, then the process of construction and operation itself will go a little faster," said Tatyana Mokhova.

Head of the Department of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the region Anton Lebedev spoke about the problems of the Arctic zone and the state of affairs in the region: "The situation with communications in the region is very bad. The population of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug is just over 40 thousand people and includes hard-to-reach settlements with populations of 20 people. In all nine regions of the Arctic zone, there are almost 7,000 settlements with a population of less than 1,000 people. Of these, as of the beginning of 2023, only 18% have fiber optics. 10% have satellite communications. Mobile Internet is a luxury. A tariff with a speed of 256 kbps costs 3,000 rubles per month. Only 31% of settlements have 4G. In total, more than 330 thousand people are not provided with modern communication services. In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, we have a trunk communication channel from Rostelecom. Until recently, it was the only one main canal in the area. If something happens to it, there is a blackout, nothing works. We built a second canal, laid 210 km across the tundra. Now at least we have a reserve in case of an accident on the first one."

Deputy Minister of Innovation, Digital Development and Infocommunication Technologies of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Andrey Suslov reported on the work done in the region: "As for the speed of 256 kbps, this is true. We have such settlements. But at the same time, from 2016 to 2023, we built 14 thousand km of terrestrial fiber-optic communication lines. This means that 92% of the republic's population uses high-speed Internet. In 2022, we crossed the 72nd parallel, and in 2023 we reached the village of Yuryung-Khaya in the Anabarsky District, which is located 200 km from the Laptev Sea. This is the farthest point in the Russian Federation where high-speed Internet works. But we still have 13 districts of the republic where there is virtually no Internet. Therefore, we have created a new fiber-optic communication line project for them. It is designed for three years. The total length of the project is 7000 km. These are