US medtech giant requests radio frequencies in Russia
The State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) at its meeting at the end of December may allocate frequencies in the 101 MHz range for so-called high-frequency devices to an indefinite number of persons. This follows from the SCRF materials, which were familiarized by Izvestia. The application for allocation was filed by GI Healthcare LLC, a division of GE HealthCare (formed as its medical division), a company associated with American General Electric.
Experts believe that this frequency will be useful for the American medtech giant and other market players for MRI equipment. The 101 MHz frequency can be used in medical equipment operating on the principles of interaction with electromagnetic waves. For example, it can be magnetic resonance imaging devices with a range from 1 MHz to 300 MHz, notes Ruslan Permyakov, an expert of the Healthnet STI market.
Market participants note: with the beginning of the SWO, the allocation of frequencies to organizations from unfriendly countries, even those not participating in the sanctions campaign and continuing to work in Russia, has become a rare, almost precedent event. Moreover, they are allocated to organizations whose goods or services have no Russian analogues, states Denis Kuskov, General Director of TelecomDaily.
According to him, such an approach in the case of medical equipment is associated with risks, in particular, leaks abroad of various types of medical data. In addition, a manufacturer from an unfriendly country can stop working in Russia at any time under the pressure of political circumstances. And this means that patients may find themselves without help and diagnostics, and medical institutions - without modern equipment.
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Frequency is a guarantee of health: a US medtech giant has requested radio frequencies in Russia
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