In the future, a global Internet may appear on Earth, covering the entire surface of the planet - this is already being done by OneWeb and Elon Musk's Starlink project. Judging by the new decree of the Russian Government, their deployment on the territory of the country will be extremely difficult. The reason for this will be the need to create ground stations that will receive and check signals from foreign satellites in order to ensure national security. Moreover, global satellite communications operators will be forced to obtain permission from the FSB and FSO.
The adopted document can really complicate the start of the global Internet in Russia. According to the head of the AltegroSky communications operator Sergei Pekhterev, there are 150 satellite communications operators in the world at the moment. In the current political circumstances, obtaining permission from the special services can take up to 15 months - this is how much time it can take to check foreign operators for the absence of spy equipment. Moreover, it can take tens of millions of dollars for companies to create a ground communication station and the construction itself.
Even Russian telecom operators may have problems. At the moment, in the event of a breakdown of their own satellites, they can rent foreign counterparts. As a rule, the transition process takes a maximum of 10 days, and it can take years to go through a check with the FSB.
The author of the project is the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, and it has answers to some of the above concerns. Its representatives assured that the approval process takes no more than a month. In the event of a breakdown of Russian satellites, operators will be able to rent devices approved by the State Commission on Radio Frequencies on December 11, 2006. With all this, even the ministry itself admits that such requirements cannot fully ensure national security.