Modem and router market in Russia

Andrey Chazov, Director of Internet Products of Dom.ru, said that in 2022 the market grew by 13.7%.

The volume of the market for Wi-Fi routers in the Russian Federation in 2023 could increase to 14.3 billion rubles against about 13.3 billion rubles in 2022. Thus, the growth of this market may reach 7.5%. Earlier, in 2022, the market grew by 13.7%. This was announced by Andrey Chazov, Director of Internet Products of Dom.ru to TASS.

Despite the withdrawal of Western vendors, in 2022 the volume of the b2c market for Wi-Fi routers grew by 13.7% compared to last year, reaching about 13.3 billion rubles. The volume of the b2c market for Wi-Fi routers by the end of 2023, Chazov said: Wi-Fi routers Wi-Fi routers may increase to 14.3 billion rubles.

According to Dom.ru experts, in the next two or three years the market growth rate will decrease to 6-8%, however, the upward trend in demand for modern telecommunications equipment will continue due to growing customer demand. Chazov noted: High-speed and high-quality Internet in apartments. . Also in 2022, the average Internet speed of the operator’s customers increased by 10% to 126 Mbps. The company expects to increase growth by 15% in 2023.

“The number of devices in the home in 2022 increased by 22% compared to the previous year and amounted to an average of 5.2 devices per household. By the end of this year, this indicator is expected to increase to 6 devices per household. And the average time spent on the Internet increased by 9% per year, the press service noted.

“In 2022, sales of Wi-Fi routers in the MegaFon retail network increased by 16% in physical terms and by 27% in monetary terms compared to 2021,” the company’s sales manager David Berezilov told TASS. “The growth in sales of this category of goods is due to the emergence of more technological devices on the Russian market, for example, devices that support the Wi-Fi 6E standard. In 2023, we also expect high demand for Wi-Fi routers.

At Beeline, the revenue of the routers segment, which includes the sale and rental of devices for home Internet, grew by more than 10% in 2022. By the end of 2023, we expect similar or even better results due to the increase in the number of our routers in the subscriber base,” the company’s press service noted.

The largest domestic manufacturers of routers:

LLC IRZ
LLC ENTERPRISE ELTEX

The largest foreign manufacturers of routers present on the Russian market:

ASUS
D-LINK
HUAWEI
KEENETIC
MERCUSYS
MIKROTIK
NETIS
SNR
TENDA
TP-LINK
XIAOMI
ZTE
BEELINE
ROTEK/ROSTELECOM

At the end of January 2023, it became known about the upcoming launch of Russian production of routers with support for the Wi-Fi 6 wireless communication standard. The corresponding plan is contained in the Roadmap of New Industrial Software (NIPO).

As Izvestia writes, referring to this document, the project will be supervised by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation. It is assumed that the production of domestic routers will begin by the end of 2024, and by the beginning of 2025, at least 500 thousand Wi-Fi 6 devices should be produced in Russia. – Telecom Holding and Rostelecom

According to experts interviewed by the newspaper, as of January 2023, there are companies in Russia that produce Wi-Fi routers on the basis of imported components, but Wi-Fi 6 devices have not yet been produced. They note that such routers are more complex equipment, the introduction of which will reduce the interference that gadgets operating in the old band create for each other and increase the speed of user access.

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation reported that by the end of January 2023, Russian manufacturers will have prototypes of consumer and corporate Wi-Fi 6 routers. The equipment is undergoing the final stages of testing: according to the ministry, production is planned for the second quarter of 2023.

As of January 2023, the production of Wi-Fi 6 routers in the Russian Federation has not been established in many respects due to the fact that it requires a complex component base. To build such devices of previous generations, microelectronic components are enough, which are offered by many suppliers: they are easy to find on the market even in conditions of sanctions. The source said that Wi-Fi 6 and 6E require more modern and advanced chips, which are more difficult to find.

Conclusion

There are few companies producing Wi-Fi routers in Russia, and the market is more dependent on imports. The largest imports of home Wi-Fi routers are from China and South Korea. The Russian Federation is focused on producing 6G WiFi routers and meeting future market needs. Therefore, until the technology for mass production of 6G home WiFi routers is achieved, the Russian market will continue to remain dependent on imports.