Translated with AI from the Russian original.

Rostelecom expects to launch domestic base stations on its network by 2025. Rostelecom's subsidiary, BULAT LLC, produces its own GSM/LTE-1800 standard stations, but so far only in the format of the first pilot batch.

Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky announced the plans to IA TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

2025 is currently on the schedule, but we are following the plan we have developed for ourselves. There is no doubt that we will launch it. [...] First of all, new base stations will appear, and in accordance with the depreciation schedule, these are 10-year projects.
Mikhail Oseevsky, President of PJSC Rostelecom

According to him, base stations "wear out slowly" - approximately 10 years.

In 2022, Rostelecom signed contracts with Yadro and BULAT to create mobile infrastructure. A forward contract between BULAT and Rostelecom for the supply of up to 17,000 base stations until 2026 was concluded in December 2022.

In February 2024, it became known about the completion of the initial stage of field tests of a prototype of the first domestic GSM/LTE-1800 base station from BULAT. BULAT acted as the developer of the hardware part of the base station, and New Telecom Solutions LLC (NTS) developed the software.

The tests confirmed that the signal transmission levels meet the calculated levels, demonstrated the required quality of mobile voice connection and the availability of telecommunications network data transmission services, comparable to the solutions of global industry leaders.
Press Service of PJSC Rostelecom

The test results of a cluster of 20 base stations on a test segment of a commercial communications operator's network using the target hardware platform and software became the basis for further development and optimization of the hardware and software complex.

According to the Ministry of Digital Development, communications operators must purchase exclusively Russian base stations from 2028.

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