LPR to launch own mobile network
LUHANSK. Dec 8 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) will have its own mobile service operator, LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky said.
"This week we reached a preliminary agreement with several companies that will deal with our network so that we finally have proper communications. Final terms will be decided in Rostov and after that work will begin," Plotnitsky told the LPR Council of Ministers on Monday.
Restoring mobile communications will take about a month and a half, the LPR leader said. "If we reach a deal, by late January we will have our own service, with which we will be able to work and thanks to which we will have new improvements both in communications and in cable television and a lot of new other things," he said.
For his part, the LPR minister of transport, information and mass communications, Alexander Chumachenko, said that the republic's armed forces managed to preserve the key communications infrastructure.
"The necessary equipment remained intact, specialists stayed in their workplaces. Subsequently we will devise communications and broadcasting schemes and we are certain that many Internet provides will stay to work in our republic," Chumachenko said.