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In May of this year, information appeared in the media that calls to fixed and mobile numbers made through foreign Voice Over IP services - Skype, WhatsApp - in the networks of other operators may be limited.

According to the Ministry of Communications' draft, mobile operators should not have had the legal right to connect to local networks to transmit their traffic. However, it has recently become known that the new version of the bill does not contain amendments concerning Voice Over IP messengers. Skype and WhatsApp will be able to use local networks along with domestic services.

If a ban were introduced, Russian and foreign VoIP operators would find Australia Email Database themselves in an unequal position. The consequence of such a situation would undoubtedly be an increase in operators' costs for traffic transmission, which would logically be reimbursed by increasing tariffs for services for subscribers.

The need for changes and full legislative regulation of this segment of the telecommunications technology market has been discussed for several years. Today, all long-distance and international voice traffic must pass through the networks of zonal operators, in Russia, this is primarily Rostelecom. The Ministry of Communications' project now allows operators to connect to local networks directly, thereby depriving Rostelecom of additional profits.

How the innovations will affect the cost of both calls and text messages (and whether they will affect it at all) can only be guessed. None of the main operators have yet commented.

Mobile operators and independent retailers
The well-known consulting company J'son & Partners Consulting, whose data we have used more than once in our articles, published the results of its latest study this week.



This time, experts studied retail channels for sales of mobile services and devices by Russian operators and independent retailers. The figures show that the share of sales of operators' own networks has doubled compared to similar coefficients five years ago and amounted to more than 30% of the total volume in the first quarter of 2016. It turns out that today more than a third of the profit of the "big three" (operators with their own points of sale) is formed by commercial sales of various electronic goods.