| In the section | Surveys |
| Title of the article | Development Trends of Information Infrastructure in the Russian Far East |
| Pages | 162-171 |
| Author |
Aleksandr Isaakovich Itsixon Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Business Development Directo ‘Erlang’ Ltd. 19a Narodnoy Voli St., Yekaterinburg, Russia, 620144 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-9730-5315 |
| Abstract | The article is devoted to determining the development trends of the Far Eastern infrastructure, which is built on the platforms of Internet and mobile network access. The provision of documentary telecommunication services allows to remove the restrictions of access to television, Internet, telephone (cellular and fixed), radio communications. Based on the official statistics the article studies the dynamics of infrastructure development and estimates the consumption of services by the population and entities in the Russian Far East. The author determined quantity indicators that allow comparing levels of infrastructure development. The analysis allowed to determine main trends of infrastructure development in the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD). The FEFD has a significant differentiation of infrastructure development levels, slowly mitigated by the construction of backbone and intrazonal fiber optic lines. The lowest indicators can be seen in the Chukotka Autonomous district, where the cost of traffic is ten times higher and the volume of consumption is ten times lower than the regional average. One possible solution to this issue is to build a unified system of fiber optic lines along the existing highways, which would make this socially important project payable. The income from mobile services (of 2G) is falling in the FEFD, as well as in Russia, which is somewhat compensated by mobile Internet services (3G and 4G). The most perspective regions for the development of mobile network are the Jewish Autonomous region, the Amur Oblast and the Primorsky Krai. Legal entities have been consuming approximately the same level of services (in respect to GRP), so the main direction of development should be creating communication lines and supplying Internet access for the population |
| Code | 332.145:338.47 |
| JEL | O11, R12, M15 |
| DOI | 10.14530/se.2018.4.162-171 |
| Keywords | regional economy ♦ digital inequality ♦ dynamics of development ♦ Internet access ♦ level of consumption ♦ cost of Internet traffic ♦ stationary and mobile users |
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| For citation | Itsixon A.I. Development Trends of Information Infrastructure in the Russian Far East. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2018, no. 4, pp. 162-171. DOI: 10.14530/se.2018.4.162-171. (In Russian). |
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