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11%
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State procurement of landline telephones tripled in the first eight months of 2026 as mobile internet outages hit nearly 80% of the country.
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outages → triple → country
Rostelecom’s chief urged Russians to keep one at home “like a fire extinguisher".
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chief → urge → extinguisher
Russian state-owned companies spent more than three times as much on landline telephones in the first eight months this year as in the same period in 2025, as mobile internet shutdowns affecting nearly 80% of the country push ministries and businesses to seek alternatives to disrupted networks.
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shutdowns → own → networks
Procurement data cited by the Russian business daily Vedomosti show spending at 118 million roubles (€1.26 million) from January through August, with the number of purchase tenders up 12.5%.
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number → cite → tenders
Purchases are concentrated in the country’s largest business and infrastructure hubs.
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Purchases → concentrate → hubs
Market participants told Vedomosti that the surge was driven by the restrictions, a shift by Russian ministries and companies to domestically produced software-based PBX systems after Western vendors withdrew from the Russian market following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and demand for secure communications channels.
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vendors → tell → channels
Russia began systematically shutting down mobile internet access in May 2025, when services went offline in more than 40 regions ahead of Victory Day celebrations.
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services → begin → celebrations
What were initially episodic outages quickly became routine.
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were → become → ?
An independent monitoring project recorded 655 mobile internet outages in June 2025, rising to 2,099 in July, a figure that exceeded the worldwide total for the entire previous year, according to analysts.
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that → record → analysts
The disruptions have hit banking, taxi services, food delivery and navigation, particularly in rural areas.
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disruptions → hit → areas
The authorities have justified the shutdowns as a defence against Ukrainian drones, which they say are guided via mobile internet signals.
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they → justify → signals
Experts have disputed this, saying drones can fly preset routes without a network connection, and the shutdowns have reached regions far from the front line.
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shutdowns → dispute → line
In March, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the presidential administration “uses landline telephones” when asked how restrictions in central Moscow affect the work of the president’s office.
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restrictions → say → office
Shortly after, head of state telecoms company Rostelecom Mikhail Oseyevsky urged Russians to return to fixed lines.
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Oseyevsky → urge → lines
“Like a fire extinguisher, there should be one in every home," Oseyevsky said.
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Oseyevsky → say → home
Russia has approximately 12.2 landline telephones per 100 residents.
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Russia → have → residents
In Moscow, around 2 million households use fixed lines provided by MGTS, the city’s main telephone operator.
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households → use → MGTS
The Ministry of Economic Development forecasts that the number of all landlines will fall to between 8.2 and 8.5 per 100 residents by 2029.
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number → forecast → 2029
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