State and development of telecommunication services in the Siberian region

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of regional development - the development of criteria for the provision of telecommunication services. Existing methodologies to assess the development of telecommunications are subjective, and it is objectively linked neither with income nor with the level of business requirements for a service, and it does not reflect the status of the service in some constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The comparative analysis of consumption of telecommunications services for population and legal entities of the Siberian Federal district in comparison with the economic indicators in the whole of Russia is presented. To compare it, two criteria: “the share of services in average per capita income of the population” and “the share of services to legal entities in the gross regional product” are introduced. The author offers methodological approach based on objective indicators of consumption of services provided in the statistical reports of Rosstat and the Minsvyaz, the tools for assessing the economic efficiency on the basis of the technological infrastructure of the region with telecommunication devices enabling the growth of revenue from services. The result shows that the provision of services in the Siberian region to the national average level provides additional revenues of 30 billion rubles per year.