Rostelecom completed tests of the first domestic base stations

2025: Rostelecom completes tests of first domestic base stations

On February 11, 2025, Rostelecom"" announced the completion of tests of the first twenty domestic standard base stations/-1800 GSMLTE of the company. " Damask steel This equipment has been put into commercial operation.

Bulat stations are designed for use in public communication networks. The devices passed the necessary technical assessment procedures and in December 2024 received the status of TORP (telecommunications equipment of Russian origin). The stations meet all standards and requirements for domestic solutions. The hardware was developed by specialists of the Bulat company (a subsidiary of Rostelecom), the software was developed by engineers of Novye Telecom Solutions LLC (NTR). The forward contract between Bulat and Rostelecom for the supply of up to 17 thousand base stations until 2026 was concluded in December 2022. The production of the pilot batch was launched in April 2024 at the site of the Russian Telecommunications Technologies NPO (NPO RTT).

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Фото: Rostelecom

Tests of the stations were carried out on the Rostelecom technological infrastructure segment in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The tests confirmed the compliance of the signal transmission parameters with the calculated ones, demonstrated the required quality of the mobile voice connection and the availability of data services in the telecommunications network at the level of the products of world industry leaders.

As a result, it was decided to transfer the stations to commercial operation using a multi-operator core network (MOCN technology). This allows the four mobile operators to share a single radio access network infrastructure. As of mid-February 2025, Bulat's equipment serves more than 4.5 thousand T2 subscribers living in small settlements of the Nizhny Novgorod region.^[1]

2024: Deployment of pilot cluster of 20 domestic 4G base stations

PJSC Rostelecom in November 2024 deployed a pilot cluster of 20 domestic 4G base stations in the Nizhny Novgorod region, produced by Bulat. Testing of the equipment continues throughout the year with the aim of launching into commercial operation in early 2025.

According to Interfax, Bulat has signed forward contracts for the supply of hardware and software systems of 2G/4G base stations with Rostelecom and Megafon operators. The equipment is planned to be used primarily for the implementation of a project to eliminate digital inequality.

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Фото: Bulat

Deputy President - Chairman of the Board of Rostelecom Alexei Sapunov said that the company is at the final stage of testing base stations and is preparing for their full-scale commercial implementation.

Technical Director of Megafon Alexei Titov spoke about the completion of the coordination of technical requirements for the Bulata base stations. The company expects to obtain a prototype for laboratory tests and determine the possible applications of the equipment.

Megafon also plans to begin field testing of telecommunications equipment manufactured by Yadro in 2025. This will become part of the program for the development of domestic technologies in the field of mobile communications.

As part of the project to eliminate digital inequality, domestic base stations will provide communication to sparsely populated points of Russia. The development and production of its own telecommunications equipment will allow operators to reduce dependence on imported technologies.

The introduction of Russian-made base stations is part of a strategy to develop the domestic telecommunications industry and create an independent mobile infrastructure in the country.^[2]

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