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To cover highways, it is first and foremost important to create a basic infrastructure in a complex: access roads, technical areas, antenna-mast structures, power grids, noted the MTS representative. According to him, the problem with access to electricity is especially acute, without which it is impossible to build infrastructure.

Of course, the problem of armenia whatsapp resource connecting to the power grid needs to be solved - due to the fact that power engineers do not have enough capacity or organizing such a connection is very expensive, kilometers of roads remain without voice communication and mobile Internet, Denis Kuskov noted. If communications workers can connect through gas stations, factories located along the roads, warehouse complexes, shopping centers, this will be very positive for them and for subscribers, he believes.

- But we need a clearly defined regulation of interaction between operators, energy sales companies and intermediaries. It is necessary to establish clear connection deadlines, prices for this service - so that the cost does not turn out to be prohibitive, - the expert believes.

Meanwhile, as ComNews Research partner Leonid Konik notes, the regulatory story of covering highways with cellular communications is not new. Back in 2014, at a meeting of the State Council Presidium on improving the highway network, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions, among which was ensuring the uninterrupted operation of cellular communications along highways.

of the federal project "Information Infrastructure" of the national program "Digital Economy". From this document it followed that by the end of 2024, 100% coverage of all federal highways by mobile radiotelephone communications should be ensured, the expert recalled.

— But the cart is still there: there is still a long way to go to cover at least 100% of federal highways with cellular networks of all cellular operators. The absence of electric networks in the road zone makes the operation of base stations (BS) of cellular communications unprofitable: the operation of each BS from a diesel generator costs the operator almost 2 million rubles per month. Another barrier to installing BS along all highways is the lack of access roads for equipment, — noted Leonid Konik.

At the same time, it is wrong to attribute the lack of cellular coverage along thousands of kilometers of Russian highways only to the lack of electricity and access roads - there are many cases where all of this is available, but mobile operators are in no hurry to install base stations along the highway, he noted. The reason, according to him, is economic inefficiency: there are very few cars on highways in remote regions (and, as a result, telecom traffic from drivers or passengers).