"Rostelecom" did not reach 3 billion rubles for the development of Internet in the villages

Nikolai Nikiforov sent a letter to Vladimir Putin in which he pointed out the underfunding of Rostelecom. The company was supposed to receive 14.5 billion rubles for the Internet in sparsely populated areas of Russia, but received only 11.5 billion.

The money for the construction of fiber-optic communication lines comes from the universal service reserve - telecommunications operators pay quarterly 1.2% of the revenue to it. Then the money goes to the federal budget, after which it is transferred to the executor of the program for conducting networks, that is, Rostelecom. The project of eliminating digital inequalities provides for launching data transmission services in settlements with a population of 250 to 500 people.

Nikolay Nikiforov, according to Vedomosti , in the summer sent a letter to the President of Russia asking to deal with the under-financing in the amount of three billion rubles. The funds were allocated to eliminate digital inequality, but after they got into the federal budget, they did not reach the company. A person close to the presidential administration told Vedomosti, confirmed the information.

The Ministry of Finance received 14.5 billion rubles from the universal service reserve, but allocated 11.5 billion rubles to the targeted program. The Ministry of Finance redistributed part of the funds for other needs.
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The operator has to attract debt financing to compensate for the shortage of resources, said Rostelecom spokeswoman Kira Kiryukhina. She did not comment on information about the letter of Nikolai Nikiforov to the president.