Rostelecom, a publicly owned company headquartered in Russia, was founded in 1993 and employs approximately 5,280 individuals. The company reported $10.5B in revenue as of 2025. Rostelecom specializes in telecoms, having historically held a monopoly on domestic and international long-distance telephone services in Russia until market deregulation on January 1, 2006. The company carries over 10 billion domestic and over 4.8 billion international long-distance minutes of traffic and also operates other businesses, including leased line services, intelligent network services, and customer equipment servicing.
On April 22, 2026, T2, a subsidiary of national operator Rostelecom, expanded its partnership with Russian Post, commencing the sale of smartphones with SIM cards in over 2,200 post offices across 60 regions. The operator is also testing smartwatch sales with SIMs in post offices in certain regions. Also on April 22, Rostelecom completed testing of the Horizon DWDM equipment from Russian company LaserOne on a 2,000-km link of its backbone network, verifying its stable operation at 100 Gbps and compatibility with existing infrastructure. This follows a report on April 18, where Ukraine's Defense Ministry advisor stated that Russia's government orders T2 SIM cards, which the operator supplies directly to Shahed drone producers.
Rostelecom offers 4 products in the media and telecoms services industry. Rostelecom's product portfolio comprises of telecoms and media and TV services.
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Rostelecom's revenues were $10.5B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Rostelecom's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is mobile services, which represents 39% of Rostelecom's revenue.
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