Russia’s Ambitious Broadband Goal : Is the Progress Sustainable?

Russia’s Ambitious Broadband Goal : Is the Progress Sustainable?

In 2012, the Russian Federation announced one of the world’s more ambitious broadband Internet development goals: providing 80 percent of Russian households with ultrafast connection speeds - at least 100 megabits per second (Mbps) by 2018.1 That g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gelvanovska, Natalija, Rossotto, Carlo Maria, Gunzburger, Michael Lee
Format: Brief
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
USERS
PHONE
COMMUNITIES
TECHNOLOGY
INITIATIVES
HIGH-SPEED
POLICIES
TELECOMMUNICATION
MOBILE PHONE
COMPETITIVENESS
CAPABILITY
CONNECTION SPEEDS
INFORMATION
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
MARKET
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION
MARKET SEGMENTS
INTERNET
BACKBONE
RETAIL
MOBILE TELEPHONY
SPEEDS
COMMUNICATIONS
ICT
MARKET SHARE
DIGITAL
COSTS
WIRELESS
BROADBAND CONNECTIONS
BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY
TRANSPORT
TELECOM
COAXIAL CABLE
TARGETS
TELEPHONY
IT
COMMUNICATION
PRIVATE INVESTMENT
CONNECTIVITY
AT
END USERS
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
INTERNET DEVELOPMENT
ROUTE
TARGET
BROADBAND
ACCESS TO THE INTERNET
INFRASTRUCTURE
DIGITAL DIVIDE
TELEPHONE
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26043129/russia’s-ambitious-broadband-goal-progress-sustainable
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25012
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Summary:In 2012, the Russian Federation announced one of the world’s more ambitious broadband Internet development goals: providing 80 percent of Russian households with ultrafast connection speeds - at least 100 megabits per second (Mbps) by 2018.1 That goal exceeds the current targets in Germany and the European Union, and it is about equivalent to those currently being pursued by countries with ambitious strategic broadband connectivity goals, including Denmark, Sweden, and the United States. As part of the effort to reach its 2018 target, the Russian government recently tasked Rostelecom - a largely state-owned enterprise and the dominant firm in Russia’s broadband market - with the responsibility of connecting 4 million people (about 2.8 percent of all households) in small, widely scattered settlements throughout Russia by installing 200,000 kilometers of fiber-optic cable providing speeds of at least 10 Mbps. The assignment is both a great opportunity and a huge challenge for Rostelecom and for the entire Russian broadband sector. What can Russia do to ensure Rostelecom’s successful completion of its specific task as well as the success of the broader 2018 target?

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