Two cable manufacturing enterprises – Nevacable, part owned by Nokia Oy in St Petersburg, and the recently launched Voronezhcable, a joint venture of KWO Kabel – are expected to open their first production lines for fibre optic cable in the near future, says Izyaslav Peshkov, general director of All-Russian Scientific Research of Cable Industry. Today, Russian cable enterprises produce fewer than 65,000 miles of fibre optic cable a year. The upcoming 50 by 50 project will make Russia one of the most fibre optic-cabled countries in the world. Peshkov says the Moscow-Khabarovsk line alone will need 17 types of fibre optic cable, and even these two new joint ventures are unlikely to be able to offer such a wide range in a short period of time.
