Russian Post to open office on Svalbard
Russia plans to open a post office on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in the near future. Telecommunication networks, including satellite and mobile systems will be expanded and developed further.
In course of the next two months, Russia and Norway will sign an agreement on opening of a branch of Russian Post on Svalbard. The decision about this was made by a Russian-Norwegian working group on information technologies and innovation on a meeting in Oslo this week.
Svalbard is under Norwegian jurisdiction, but has a particular status where Russia has the right to conduct business on the archipelago.
The working group also discussed the development of telecommunications on Svalbard, like expansion of the existing GSM-900 mobile telephone network. Russian authorities plan to open a multiservice telecommunications network in the Russian settlement of Barentsburg that can provide inhabitants and companies with multimedia and interactive internet services. For this the Russian satellite “Ekspress-AM1” will be used, web site Comnews.ru writes.
