Rostelecom Wraps Russia in 1.1 Million Km of Fiber Cable
State-controlled giant Rostelecom is bragging about covering two-thirds of the country with high-speed glass wire. Because nothing says modern technological triumph quite like blazingly fast access to a heavily filtered national intranet.
The state operator expanded its fiber-optic network past 1.1 million kilometers, claiming high-speed internet capability for over two-thirds of Russian families. Big metro areas supposedly reached over 80% coverage, while smaller regional hubs passed the 90% mark in official reports.
Distant regions like Murmansk and Yamal-Nenets were flagged with 99% coverage metrics, while remote Kamchatka reached 96%. Laying miles of glass thread across frozen tundra certainly sounds heroic until one remembers where all that traffic actually routes through.
To match the new lines, subsidiary Elektra kicked off mass production of domestic Wi-Fi 6 routers pushing speeds up to 3 Gbps. The local hardware allegedly delivers a 45% speed boost over older state-issued boxes, giving citizens ultra-fast connections to local intranets.
Engineering efforts culminated in drilling an optical pipeline under the Kama River for the flagship Trans-Eurasian TEA NEXT trunk line project.
Building world-class glass highways just to bottleneck them through national firewalls remains the ultimate flex in modern infrastructure planning. High-speed gigabits make blocked web pages load with unprecedented efficiency.
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