Huawei to design 3 bln rbl Russia’s Far East line for Rostelecom

MOSCOW, Jan 10 (PRIME) -- China’s Huawei has won a public tender of Russian state-controlled telecom giant Rostelecom to do survey and design works to build a 3.3 billion ruble underwater optic fiber line Sakhalin–Kuril Islands, in the country’s Far East, the operator said Tuesday in a statement.

“The Sakhalin–Kuril Islands line will provide the earthquake prone area with complicated climatic conditions with a highly reliable connection and bring advanced high-quality telecommunications services to the citizens of the Kuril Islands,” Rostelecom’s President Sergei Kalugin said.

Huawei will prepare design and estimate documents to build the 940-kilometer underwater line, onshore stations and accompanying ground and nearshore infrastructure for the project.

The starting throughput capacity will amount to 40 gigabits per second and will be later expanded.

According to a state target program of social and economic development of the Kuril Islands in 2016–2025, the project envisages 2.7 billion rubles of government funds as subsidies to Rostelecom. The rest will come from non-budget sources.

The project will be built in three years. Rostelecom will design it in 2017, while the bulk of building is scheduled for 2018.

Rostelecom will receive 1.9 billion rubles for the construction of the line in 2018.

(59.8961 rubles – U.S. $1)

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