en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Russian government has included approximately 160 villages, hamlets, and small settlements across 17 municipal districts of the Kursk Region in the list for constructing mobile communication access points. The specific list published locally involves 161 settlements, and upon completion, residents will be provided with mobile phone services, data transmission, and internet access.
This round of construction primarily covers small settlements with a population of fewer than 100 people. Following the 2025 amendment to the federal "Communications Law" in Russia, such small-population areas, which are difficult to cover through conventional commercial investment, can now use the Universal Service Fund to build communication access points. Previously, some settlements in the Altai Republic and Belgorod Region had already been included in similar lists.
Project funding comes from the Universal Service Fund, which is formed by contributions from telecom operators based on a portion of their business revenues. This mechanism allows a certain percentage of operators' revenues to be centrally allocated for low-population-density areas, supplementing the construction costs of base stations, transmission lines, and supporting facilities, thereby preventing remote villages from remaining in a state of no mobile signal or weak coverage for extended periods simply due to a small number of users.
The operation of mobile communication access points requires not only the installation of wireless base station equipment but also the simultaneous resolution of issues related to site selection, power supply, antenna coverage, and backhaul networks. When villages are relatively scattered, factors such as the service radius of a single site, terrain obstructions, and the transmission method with the backbone network all affect the actual stability of voice calls and mobile internet.
The construction scope includes 17 districts such as Zheleznogorsk, Zolotukhino, Kastornoye, Konyshevka, Kursk, Lgov, Manturovo, Medvenka, and Oboyan. Local authorities plan to gradually install base stations between 2026 and 2027, enabling these small settlements to achieve more stable mobile communication coverage.
