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Novosti said in a statement.

MTS, Beeline, and the Ministry of Digital Development did not comment on the situation. A representative of the MegaFon press service told a ComNews correspondent that the lack of power supply at one facility did not affect the network's performance, since in this case the traffic automatically switched to additional communication channels.



The press service of Rostelecom r russia whatsapp resourceefrained from commenting, and a representative of T2 Mobile LLC (Tele2 is a subsidiary of Rostelecom) reported that the Tele2 network in the Far East had been operating normally all this time.

A representative of the press service of Sberbank-Telecom LLC, for which Tele2 is a host operator in the Far East, said that on July 16, SberMobile did not record any interruptions in the network. "In the Far East, we use Tele2 as an infrastructure partner, but only in the regions where the operator is present," he explained.

T-Mobile and VTB Mobile, for whom Tele2 is also a host operator, did not comment on this case.

Experts' opinion

Leading analyst of Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin believes that this situation very well characterizes what was happening: Rostelecom was a backup option for all operators in the Far East. At the same time, as far as I understand, everyone was using the same equipment, that is, this is the same sharing (joint use of radio frequency spectrum by two or more telecom operators - ComNews note ), and formally, when it failed, Rostelecom was undergoing routine maintenance work."

Eldar Murtazin noted that this example shows a situation that many consumers advocate for: "They say that each operator does not need to develop its own infrastructure, let them unite, let them share the common infrastructure, but overnight a situation arises that does not bring anything good to anyone."

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Telecom Daily CEO Denis Kuskov suggested that Tele2 did not experience line failures because Rostelecom has its own channel for them. In his opinion, despite the fact that the three operators have different problems, they may have one thing in common: "If they use one main line, which is very common in the Far East and Siberia, where the regions of the Russian Federation are remote, then this could be the reason for the network interruptions."