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 Rostelecom's main building in Moscow, photographed in 2022 | |
| Company type | Public (OAO),state owned |
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| MCX: RTKM | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 23 September 1993; 32 years ago (1993-09-23) |
| Headquarters | Moscow,Russia |
Key people | Mikhail Oseevsky (President) Dmitry Medvedev (Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
| Products | Mobile Telephony Broadband Internet IPTV,OTT &Cable television, Data centers Cloud Solutions Cybersecurity Services Digital Region services E-government Solutions. |
| Revenue | $7.88 billion[1] (2021) |
| $1 billion[1] (2021) | |
| $432 million[1] (2021) | |
| Total assets | $15 billion[1] (2021) |
| Total equity | $3.09 billion[1] (2021) |
Number of employees | 136,700 |
| Subsidiaries | t2, RTK-DC, DataLine,Central Telegraph,Giprosvyaz,Miranda, etc |
| Website | rt.ru |
Rostelecom (Ростелеком) is Russia’s largest provider of digital services[2] for a wide variety of consumers, households, private businesses, government and municipal authorities, and other telecom providers.Rostelecom interconnects all local public operators’ networks into a single national network for long-distance service. In other words, if one makes a long-distance call or originatesInternet contact to or from Russia, it is likely that Rostelecom is providing part of the service. The company'sstock trades primarily on theMoscow Exchange.[3]
Prior to 1990 the Ministry of Communications of the USSR provided telecommunications services. On June 26, 1990, the Ministry established a state-owned joint-stock company Sovtelekom, which obtained the rights to operate the telecommunications network of the USSR. On December 30, 1992, by order of the State Property Committee of Russia, a state-owned enterprise Rostelecom, which consisted of 20 state long-distance and international calls, as well as communication equipment Intertelekom was organized.
Throughout the 1990s, the company which was part of Svyazinvest, was the sole long-distance operator in Russia. Alongside it, local companies operated in the different regions of Russia under the umbrella of Svyazinvest while Rostelecom connected between their networks. In 2001, these companies were merged to form a number of regional incumbent telecommunications operators: CentreTelecom, SibirTelecom, Dalsvyaz, Uralsvyazinform, VolgaTelecom, North-West Telecom, Southern Telecommunications Company and Dagsvyazinform. On 2011, Svyazinvest was liquidated with the regional subsidiaries merged into Rostelecom. In 2021, the company's revenue amounted to 351 billion rubles.[4]
On October 18, 2006 "Rostelecom" received a certificate of quality ofIP-MPLS network and became the ISP backbone. In December 2006, Rostelecom and the telecommunications companyKDDI in Japan under the "Transit Europe - Asia" signed an agreement to build a line ofNakhodka -Naoetsu with total bandwidth of 640 Gbit/s instead of the previous 560 Mbit/s.[5]
In 2023, Rostelecom stated thatChinese state-backed cyberattacks by several knownadvanced persistent threats were a top concern.[6]
On 24 February 2022, in response to theRussian invasion of Ukraine, theOffice of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of theUnited States Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions against Rostelecom.[7]
Owners of Rostelecom ordinary (voting) share as of November 2021:[8]
PJSC Rostelecom is the largest integrated digital services and products provider,[9][10] operating in all segments of the telecommunications market in Russia. The Company serves millions of households, state and private enterprises across the country.[11]
Rostelecom is a company that provides solutions[12] in the following fields: E-Government, cybersecurity,Beeline andMTS data-centres and cloud computing, biometry, healthcare, education and housing & utility services.[13]
In the summer of 2019, it was announced that Rostec plans to develop digital healthcare together with PJSC Rostelecom.[citation needed]
The company's network is based on extant Russianfiber-optic cable lines - FOCL. By cable the network is connected to countries inEurope andEast Asia.
Fiber-optic cable lines crossesRussian Federation on directions «Moscow —Novorossiysk», «Moscow —Khabarovsk» and «Moscow —Saint Petersburg».
IP transit has been allocated to a separate company,RTComm, using Rostelecom'sSTM-16 FOCL resources, but Rostelecom is building its ownSTM-64 (9,9533 Gbit/s) network, which as of August 2006, coveredRostov-on-Don,Krasnodar,Volgograd,Stavropol, and planned to cover the whole ofRussia by the end of 2006.
Rostelecom had 29.2 million local fixed-line voice subscribers, 12.4 million mobile voice subscribers, 7.4 million fixed-line broadband subscribers and 5.5 million pay-TV subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2010.
Using the services of the Russian Orbital Group, Rostelecom has built its satellite system for its Eastern region, comprising 11 land stations inSiberia and theRussian Far East.Satellite service for the Western region is being built at this time.
Throughout the 90s Rostelecom created subsidiaries that operated cellular networks in different regions of the country, including NSS, Baikalvestkom, Yeniseikom,SkyLink, Volgograd GSM and Akos which provided mobile services on the territory of 59 regions of Russia, serving more than 13.5 million subscribers. During the 2010s, Rostelecom and its subsidiaries built mobile networks of the third generation in 27 regions of Russia. Total planned to install more than 8 thousand base stations. Suppliers of equipment and solutions for the3G+ network areEricsson andHuawei.[14] In April 2013 the company announced the launch of 3G+ networks in the Sverdlovsk, Kurgan and Chelyabinsk regions, in the south of the Tyumen Oblast and in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area.MegaFon andTele2 andSkyLink This launch followed the introduction of 3G+ services inPerm Krai. Rostelecom's 3G+ network was installed using HSPA+ technology, providing data transfer speeds of up to 21 MB/s, with the possibility of upgrading the network to reach speeds of up to 42 MB/s if demand requires. The 3G+ network is LTE-ready, so that only minor modifications will be required before the company can roll out its 4G (LTE) network in the future.[15] In June 2013 Rostelecom launched its first part of its LTE network inSochi for the2014 Winter Olympics. Besides, the company launched LTE networks in 8 other regions besidesKarsnodar Krai by the end of 2013, includingKhanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Republic ofKhakassia, Republic ofNorth Ossetia–Alania,Sakhalin Oblast,Chukotka Autonomous Okrug,Nenets Autonomous Okrug and theJewish Autonomous Oblast.[16]
In December 2013, Rostelecom board approved a plan to merge its mobile business intoTele2 Russia, former division of Nordic telecoms groupTele2 which sold it in April 2013 to VTB Bank due to the lack of 3G and 4G data licences, limiting its future growth prospects. Rostelecom would get a 45% voting stake in the new company, T2 RTK Holding, in exchange for contributing its standalone mobile subsidiaries and assets, including SkyLink. Tele2 Russia, owned by state-controlled bank VTB and Russian businessmen Yuri Kovalchuk andAlexei Mordashov, will have 55%. Rostelecom and Tele2 Russia together have around 38 million mobile subscribers, or a combined market share of 16%.[17] During the second stage, Rostelecom spun-off its integrated mobile businesses into its new wholly owned subsidiary, RT-Mobile (Russian:РТ-Мобайл), which will be expected to have Rostelecom's mobile licences, including the LTE licences, re-issued to it.[18] Analysts said the deal makes sense as "Rostelecom has been less efficient in rolling out mobile networks. By relying on the Tele2 team in mobile expansion Rostelecom removes risks, while remaining open to an upside".[19] In February 2014 Rostelecom and Tele2 signed a framework agreement on the integration of mobile assets to the authorized capital of the joint venture "T2 Rus Holding". At the first stage of integration, Rostelecom passed seven cellular subsidiaries it owns: "Sky Link", "Nizhny Novgorod Cellular Communications", "Baikalwestcom", " Volgograd GSM" Yenisei Telecom" and ICCO.[20]
Networkinfrastructure
In April 2017, Rostelecom (AS12389) originated 50 prefixes for numerous otherautonomous systems (AS). This caused Internet traffic normally destined for these organizations to instead be routed to Rostelecom. Thehijacked prefixes belonged to financial institutions (most notably MasterCard and Visa), other telecom companies, and a variety of other organizations.[21] What makes the list of affected networks 'curious' is the high number of financial institutions such as: MasterCard, Visa, Fortis,Alfa-Bank, and more. The other notable characteristic of this event is that the advertisement included several more prefixes that were more specifically defined than the prefixes normally announced, which makes it less likely that these were unintentionally leaked.
In 2017, state-owned Rostelecom was selected to run a Russian national biometric database,[22] with Russian legislators adopting a law to oblige banks and state agencies to enter their customers' biometric information, including facial images and voice samples, into the database.[23]
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