The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has revealed the scale of price increases by Megafon, MTS and VimpelCom for using the Internet for subscribers coming to Crimea and Sevastopol from other regions of Russia, report Vedomosti with reference to the decision made by the service.
FAS revealed the volume of overpayments by subscribers of Megafon, MTS and Beeline
Author: Mikhail Zelenin
Megafon charged the highest markup for Internet access for subscribers in Crimea – 2,200 rubles for 1 GB of mobile Internet, Vedomosti found out. MTS and Beeline added 1,250 and 140 rubles per gigabyte per day to subscribers, respectively. In addition to Internet traffic, operators’ subscribers also overpaid for minutes of outgoing calls and SMS messages.
At the end of October this year, the FAS found that the Big Three operators violated antimonopoly laws by establishing additional roaming surcharges for Russians visiting Crimea and ordered them to stop this practice.
Prior to this, in August 2024, the service opened cases against companies for failure to comply with previously issued warnings about the abolition of additional fees for subscribers in Crimea and Sevastopol. At the same time, the FAS clarified that T2 Mobile (Tele2) and VTB Mobile voluntarily waived markups after receiving the service’s instructions.
After the FAS order in August 2024, VimpelCom agreed to voluntarily cancel the markup and bring tariffs to the level of the subscriber’s home region from January 1, 2025. reported FAS press service with reference to the progress of the case.
Law on the abolition of roaming on the territory of Russia – 527-FZ of December 27, 2018 – entered effective June 1, 2019. One of the provisions of the document is a ban on charging different fees for incoming calls to a subscriber of any operator, regardless of the subject of Russia where the subscriber is located.
Vedomosti noted that the existing markups of the Big Three were not due to roaming, but to the payment for subscriber access to the networks of local operators K-Telecom, KTK-Telecom (Volna Mobile), Krymtelecom and Sevtelecom “
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Source: rb.ru
