The authorities of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug are also waiting

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Rostelecom's Director of Backbone Networks Alexey Nikitin told a ComNews correspondent about another difficulty in laying the cable to Chukotka. If in such projects the length of the coastal part of the cable, which is brought from the shore to the sea by horizontal directional drilling, is usually 2-3 km, then in the case of the cable switzerland cell phone number list to Chukotka, due to the shallow water, the coastal part turned out to be 30 km long. Alexey Sapunov added that the drill (with the optical cable in it) was left in the seabed several times, since its extraction was a difficult task.
for the Polar Express underwater fiber-optic communication line, which is being built by UPT JSC, and its operator will be Morsvyazsputnik Federal State Unitary Enterprise. In mid-June 2022, on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Roman Kopin and Andrey Kuropyatnikov, General Director of Morsvyazsputnik Federal State Unitary Enterprise, signed an agreement to connect the region's settlements to this fiber-optic communication line. According to the plans of UPT and Morsvyazsputnik, the Polar Express line will reach Anadyr in 2026.

"We consider the project of PJSC Rostelecom to build the underwater fiber-optic communication line Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - Anadyr as a partnership. We sincerely congratulate Rostelecom on the completion of its construction. Interaction at the inter-operator level will improve the quality and reliability of the services provided," Sergey Chuvashev, Deputy General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Morsvyazsputnik, told ComNews.

After the launch of the underwater fiber-optic communication line Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - Anadyr into commercial operation in early 2023, Rostelecom will continue work in Chukotka to design the line, connect local mobile and fixed-line operators, Internet access providers and cable television to it. According to the company, Rostelecom is preparing to launch optical networks using GPON technology, with the cable being delivered directly to the subscriber's apartment.