The Russian Federation lags behind Kazakhstan in Internet development, and in some of its regions there has been no mobile Internet for weeks.
Authorities in a number of regions in the Urals and Siberia, as well as in the Volga region, have turned off mobile Internet. In the Tyumen Region there has been no access to the network for almost a week – since June 12, the Information Center of the Tyumen Government reported.
According to the report, mobile Internet in the Tyumen Region is limited “for reasons beyond the control of regional authorities and telecom operators” to ensure the “safety” of local residents. The government assured that there are no disruptions to fixed internet and WI-FI. “As soon as the situation allows, access to mobile Internet will be restored,” the authorities promised. Only in the past 24 hours, the Downdetector service received more than 1,200 complaints from users of MTS, T2, Megafon and other operators in the Tyumen region, noted “Nash Gorod. Tyumen”.
Mobile Internet failures are also recorded in Yekaterinburg, Kommersant writes. Providers note that the network may be unavailable “for reasons beyond the operator’s control”. Residents of the region complain of problems with calling cabs and with the work of ATMs, and Ekaterinburg has also recorded difficulties with the home Internet.
Ekaterina Mizulina, head of the Safe Internet League, reported in her Telegram channel, as cited by Kommersant, that the capital of the Sverdlovsk region has had no Internet for six days. According to her data, mobile connection failures have been reported by residents of Kurgan, Omsk, the Altai Territory, Rostov-on-Don, the Novgorod Region and Kazan.
In Tatarstan, on June 17, mobile Internet was cut off for the fourth time in a week, writes NeMoskva. The longest shutdown in the region took place on Sunday during the Ukrainian drone attack – when there was no connection for most of the day.
On the night of June 16, a large-scale disruption of the Telegram messenger was also recorded in the Volga regions. The problems mainly affected residents of Tatarstan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara and Ulyanovsk regions. In general, on Monday, the channel “Na svyazi” reported about large-scale Internet failures in 11 Russian regions.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan, following China, will launch a 10G broadband network – first in a pilot mode in Astana to test the technology, and then try to introduce this format on a permanent basis. The pilot project is being implemented by Huawei Technologies Kazakhstan and Astana Innovations JSC as part of a large program on digitalization of Kazakhstan.
In the Russian Federation, by 2026, five of 16 Russian cities with millions of inhabitants may be provided with 5G communications. And the head of the Ministry of Digitalization Maksut Shadaev promises that by 2027 5G will be available for passengers of Russian airplanes (if there will be airplanes). In cities, high-speed Internet will operate on frequencies in the range of 4.8 – 4.99 GHz. Initially, the authorities promised a large-scale launch of 5G networks already by 2024, the government even approved in 2020 a roadmap developed by Sergey Chemezov’s Rostec.
But then sanctions, again Rostec with Chemezov and Brovko, Mercury in the house of Venus, got off on the wrong foot…. so we had to change the deadline. Now it is 2026.
In Kazakhstan, by the way, the 5G network was launched in 2021 in Almaty, and today high-speed internet is available in all major cities of the country.