Rostec, the Natsprom Group of companies and Kirill Shamalov's business structures have teamed up to create a large-scale production of LTE base stations for Russian telecom operators. The partnership is organized on the basis of the NATIONAL SPECTRUM company. Rostec announced this in its Telegram channel.
The project is being developed in the format of a public-private partnership. Rostec transferred the material and scientific and technological reserves of the Spectrum subsidiary (the corporation's competence center in the field of wireless communications) to the joint venture. Private partners are involved in money, personnel, and technological solutions.
As a result of such cooperation, a base station has been created, the first batch has already been delivered to consumers and is currently being operated, providing communication. It is planned to enter large-scale production at the end of 2024. The potential market volume is estimated at tens of thousands of units.
The reformatting of the 4G project entails a change in the corresponding roadmap and requires the allocation of targeted state investments. Consultations with private partners and the state are currently underway on this issue. The subsidy previously granted to Rostec – 4.4 billion rubles – could not, on formal grounds, be spent on the development of stations. As a result, the state corporation independently financed the work and returned the funds to the budget.
Rostec State Corporation – engineering company of Russia. It unites over 800 scientific and industrial organizations in 60 regions of the country. Consolidated revenue in 2022 exceeded 2.1 trillion rubles.
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