DNR and LNR will be able to connect to Russian broadband Internet

In the spring, a new operator of broadband access (BBA) to the Internet may appear in the DPR and LPR. The issue was discussed at a meeting on communications in the new territories with the participation of the head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev on February 10. Two participants of the meeting told Vedomosti about this.

The need to create a new trunk operator in the DPR and LPR is caused by the existing monopoly of the Internet channel in Lugansk (Lugak) and Donetsk (Uglelecom), explains Dmitry Galushko, CEO of the consulting company Ordercom. Providers of the DPR and LPR have repeatedly complained about the high markups on the backbone Internet from the operators Uglelecom and Lugacom, historically operating in the territories of the republics, he recalls.