Mobile operators will combine about 10,000 base stations into a single network to cover federal highways with LTE. This will happen by 2030 as part of the federal project “Providing Internet access through the development of satellite communications”. This information is reported by Kommersant.

According to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitriy Chernyshenko, «any subscriber, and not just the subscriber of the provider that is registered» will be able to connect to the single network. He noted that by 2031 all federal highways and localities with a population of more than 1 thousand people will be covered by LTE. About 5 thousand LTE base stations will be modernized and about 3.5 thousand will be built.

Earlier it was announced that from 2023 operators would not be able to use foreign LTE base stations to create networks. Later it was reported that Ericsson and Nokia had agreed to localize the production of LTE stations in Russia.