The TEA NEXT digital highway will connect the western and eastern borders of Russia, including major cities and borders with Mongolia and China. The project covers 27 regions and includes the creation of branches to traffic nodes in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and. Russia's only domestic producer of optical fiber has been offline since May 2025 following Ukrainian attacks, industry officials told the Vedomosti business daily on Thursday. In April-May last year, JSC Optical Fiber Systems in Saransk went out of business as a result of a. Rostelecom is starting construction of the third stage of the new trans-Eurasian fiber-optic communication line (TEA NEXT), which will stretch between the cities of Torzhok in the Tver region and Kyakhta in the Republic of Buryatia and will reach the eastern border of Russia with Mongolia. At the same time, China, which now supplies 100% of fiber optics to Russia, has raised prices fourfold, according to Russian media. Read also: Electronic warfare fails: Russian. Fiber optic control cable of an FPV drone, January 2025. According to The Washington Post.
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