OREANDA-NEWS. OJSC “VolgaTelecom” will take part in realization of national project “Education” as the operator providing connection of comprehensive schools to Internet. Within this project during a year “VolgaTelecom” is planning to connect 8 075 schools of the Volga Federal district to Internet and out of these by the end of 2006 – 4 658 schools.

By the results of the tender the project’s contractor is “RTCOMM” company which till the end of 2007 provides and realizes 24 hours unlimited Internet access to educational institutions.

OJSC “VolgaTelecom” takes upon itself to deliver the service to the end-user at “last mile” section at the rate of at least 128 Kbps from educational institutions to the access nodes.

The project’s financing source is Federal budget of Russian Federation. The value of the government contract will amount to 3 billion roubles.