Rostelecom signed a contract with Yadro for the production of LTE base stations

December 15, 2022 it became known about the conclusion between the companies Rostelecom"" Yadro and a forward contract for the development and production of GSM base stations/. LTE According to the president of Rostelecom, Mikhail Oseevsky we are talking about the first such contract in the Russian Federation.

According to him, the contract for a period until 2030 is divided into several stages, its cost is "tens of billions of rubles." Oseevsky did not specify how much supply of base stations is provided for by the contract.

Rostelecom signed a contract with Yadro for the production of LTE base stations

By mid-December 2022, Rostelecom is discussing the conclusion of a similar contract by another manufacturer - Bulat, as well as with a group of software and switch developers.

As specified in the press service of Yadro, under the terms of a long-term forward contract with Rostelecom, deliveries of operator-class radio access equipment will begin in 2025 with intermediate stages of testing of the line of products being created. GSM software It will take at least 3 years to create system solutions that include base stations of standards (2G) and LTE (4G), controllers of base stations of the GSM standard, control and monitoring systems (NMS), and other components.

In August 2022, the head, Mikhail Oseevsky, first announced that the largest Russian telecom operators, within the framework of the mechanism of industrial competence centers (ICCs), plan to sign forward contracts with domestic manufacturers of telecom equipment.

Later, the company clarified that within the framework of the ICC, three projects were selected: a subsystem of base stations of standards 2G/4G/5G operator class; 2G/4G standard base station for the CSP project and corporate communication networks; mobile communication network yard software. The total cost of these projects is estimated at 30 billion rubles.^[1]

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