Security News > 2022 > March > Russia facing internet outages due to equipment shortage
Russia's RSPP Commission for Communications and IT, the country's largest entrepreneurship union, has warned of imminent large-scale service Internet service outages due to the lack of available telecom equipment.
With the western equipment suppliers exiting the market and not selling parts to Russian entities anymore, the first notable service outages may start as early as this summer.
The price of equipment still available for purchase has risen by 40%, and if the ruble continues to depreciate, the economic complications for service providers will get even more severe.
Impose a moratorium on contributions to the universal communication services fund for 2022.
Although fleeing young Russians have reported being interrogated at the airports, the Ministry of Digital Development flatly rejected the possibility of developing plans to hinder people's movement to foreign companies.
According to the latest data provided by the Russian Association for Electronic Communications, between 50,000 and 70,000 IT experts have already left the country, and another 100,000 may do the same by April.