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Alexey Sapunov told ComNews that all equipment for the Kamchatka-Chukotka fiber-optic communication line (including DWDM equipment and underwater amplifiers) was supplied by Huawei. Meanwhile, in December 2019, Rostelecom awarded the construction of an underwater fiber-optic communication line from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Anadyr to Bulat, which offered to complete the project for 6.8 billion rubles (with the initial tender price being 6.9 billion rubles). At switzerland cell phone number list that time and to this day, Rostelecom controls 37.5% of the authorized capital of Bulat LLC through Commit Capital LLC. As was announced at yesterday's event, the federal budget allocated a subsidy of 7.36 billion rubles for the construction of this fiber-optic communication line (as part of the Information Infrastructure federal project of the Digital Economy national program), while Mikhail Oseevsky added that Rostelecom also invested some money in the project.

c communication lines, Huawei traditionally also undertakes to lay them, using its subsidiary Huawei Marine Networks Co., Ltd. In particular, this company pulled a cable from Sakhalin to Kamchatka and Magadan for Rostelecom, using the cable-laying vessel Cable Innovator. As ComNews found out, Huawei Marine Networks was initially supposed to lay the cable from Kamchatka to Chukotka, but in the end its cable-laying vessel did not arrive. Rostelecom attributes this to the fact that Huawei Marine Networks is co-owned by the British group Global Marine Group.

Until the summer of 2020, Global Marine Group controlled 49% of Huawei Marine Networks shares (through its subsidiary HC2 Holdings Inc.), but in June 2020, HC2 Holdings sold 30% of Huawei Marine Networks shares for $85 million to its Chinese partner, Hengtong Optic-Electric Co Ltd. At the same time, HC2 Holdings issued a two-year Put option for the remaining 19% of Huawei Marine Networks shares. Two years from the date of issue of the option expired in the summer of 2022, but nothing is known about the complete exit of Global Marine Group / HC2 Holdings from the capital of Huawei Marine Networks.

This whole situation forced Rostelecom to look for another cable-laying vessel. The company does not disclose its name or flag, as it was also found abroad. However, in Russia there is JSC "Management of Advanced Technologies" (UPT), which is engaged in the construction of underwater fiber-optic communication lines: in particular, since 2021 this company has been building the "Polar Express" line from Teriberka to the east along the bottom of Russia's northern seas (including to Anadyr, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok).