en.Wedoany.com Reported - Bureau 1440 (ООО "Bureau 1440 (Бюро 1440)", part of ICS Holding (ИКС Холдинг)) and Federal Passenger Company (Федеральная пассажирская компания, ФПК) have approved plans to deploy satellite communications on long-distance trains, signing a project roadmap at the 2026 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (ПМЭФ).
The document stipulates the phased equipping of long-distance trains with satellite communications based on Bureau 1440's low-orbit satellite constellation. According to the plan, passengers on approximately 400 long-distance trains will be able to use high-speed internet.
In the first phase, user terminals developed by Bureau 1440 specifically for railway transport, fully considering the requirements of infrastructure, will be tested on Federal Passenger Company trains. After all necessary work is completed, trial operation of the service will begin.
Long-distance train journeys often last a day or more, during which maintaining contact with family, work, and the world is crucial. Currently, this is not possible on many sections: outside the window are hundreds of kilometers of areas without a single mobile operator base station. Aleksey Shelobkov (Алексей Шелобков), General Director of Bureau 1440, stated that communication access is not a privilege of cities but a basic standard for the entire country. Federal Passenger Company became one of the first partners when Bureau 1440 developed user terminals, and both sides are working together to provide seamless internet access for tens of millions of passengers in places where they have never had it before.
Dmitry Pegov (Дмитрий Пегов), General Director of Federal Passenger Company, stated that the joint project to deploy satellite communications in railway transport has entered a new phase. The roadmap signed today clarifies the development mechanisms for the coming years, and cooperation has moved into the practical implementation stage. The goal is to provide passengers with stable communications throughout the entire journey and to provide company employees with communication channels for solving operational and technical issues.
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