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Russia to create a national system of satellite Internet access. Photo from www.rus.newsru.ua

Russia to create national system of satellite Internet access

In recent years Russia has been actively developing various telecommunications systems. First of all they came to the capital, then spread to smaller towns, and some time later appeared in the countryside.
 
According to some experts, these trends make various companies develop more actively in the market that covers the sparsely populated settlements. To realize this purpose the Russian authorities intend to create the country's federal provider, specializing in providing satellite Internet access.
 
The developer of the innovation, General Director of State Unitary Enterprise NIIR, Valery Butenko believes that the project will require more than thirty-three billion rubles, of which more than four billion will come from the budget. Initially it was assumed that Rostelecom will be responsible for the creation of the federal service provider.
 
Speaking at a press conference, the author of the project said it is now planned to connect customers through four satellites, thus allowing Russians to benefit from the opportunities of the World Wide Web and watch digital television in every corner of the vast country.
 
The target audience includes several million people who will be able to use the Internet at speeds from 512 Kbps to 15 Mbps. Valery Butenko notes that most likely they will have to seek assistance from foreign experts, because Russia still does not have some functional specialists who know how to solve specific problems.
 
The idea of the creation of a national system of satellite Internet access, which would work in a little popular today K-band, is not new. For the first time it was officially announced at a meeting of the Presidential Commission on Modernization back in 2009, but only now the movement towards the development of this initiative has finally begun.