Komsomolskaya Pravda: “Is there mobile phone coverage on the Amur?”
Mobile network operators reduced the incidence of dead zones of mobile phone coverage along the Chita-Khabarovsk highway.
At a special meeting yesterday, Vladimir Putin checked in on the execution of his orders on infrastructure development of the Chita-Khabarovsk highway. It should be noted that a year ago, the prime minister drove along the highway for more than 2,000 kilometers in a Lada Kalina.
"We agreed that certain areas on the highway still need to be repaired, that secondly, we should build slip roads to these areas and to the highway, and thirdly, we need to provide medical service, which means designating medical facilities that will be available along the highway, building roads to these facilities and providing them with transport," Putin said.
One of the major problems on the highway is mobile phone coverage.
"It is dangerous to drive for hundreds of kilometres without the possibility of getting in touch with the Road Patrol Service or a hospital," said Putin.
He recalled that two billion roubles had been allocated from the federal budget to provide mobile phone coverage along the highway, and that almost the same sum was offered by the mobile operators. The money was also meant to provide coverage for about 100 towns and villages along the highway.
Russian Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Communications Igor Shchegolev reported that he drove on the highway to check, and there is mobile coverage. A total of 102 communication sites have been installed between Khabarovsk to Chita.
Andrey Lvov
