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2022: DPR and LPR subscribers switched to the Russian telephone numbering system + 7

The Ministry of Digital Affairs on the official website reported that mobile subscribers of the DPR and LPR will now use the prefixes of the Russian numbering system. They will save their numbers, but instead of Ukrainian codes + 38071 and + 38072 they will begin to use + 7 (949) and + 7 (959).

Subscribers switched to the new numbering system from May 7, 2022, the transition occurred without replacing SIM cards. As the Ministry of Digital Affairs reported in an official release, such a step will free the inhabitants of the republics from a communication blockade and allow them to remain in touch with relatives and friends.

Residents of the LPR will be able to call inside the region, as well as in the DPR and Russia, using the Russian code. This is now especially important for those with relatives and friends scattered in different cities. Now it is not just an opportunity to stay in touch with loved ones, it is primarily a breakthrough of the coherent blockade, "said the acting Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the LPR Andrei Eremenko.

We support such a step by Russia and are grateful for the opportunity to make calls not only on the territory of the republic, but also outside its borders. Replacing the code numbering of DPR subscribers on calls is a logical continuation of the implementation of previously signed agreements with Russia. We hope for further fruitful cooperation, "said the Minister of Communications of the DPR Igor Halepa.

According to Dmitry Kim, deputy head of the Ministry of Digital Affairs of Russia, replacing the code numbering of DPR and LPR subscribers on calls to Russia is another step towards simplifying the lives of ordinary citizens.

TAdviser's request on how to legally formalize the transition to the Russian numbering system in the Ministry of Digital Affairs was left without comment.

Russian telecom operators do not work on the territory of the republics, in 2015 the state operator Phoenix was created in the DPR, and Lugak in the LPR in the same year.

2021: The Ministry of Digital Affairs has developed new rules for the provision of telephone services

At the end of March 2021, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation published new rules for the provision of telephone services. The corresponding document is posted on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

One of the paragraphs of this draft government decree is devoted to the procedure for identifying users of corporate mobile communications.

Ministry of Digital Affairs introduced new rules for the provision of telephone services

Establish that subscribers are legal entities or individual entrepreneurs who have entered into an agreement with telecom operators on the provision of mobile radiotelephone services before the date of entry into force of this resolution, or users of subscriber communication services - a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur, by decision of these subscribers, enter information about users of communication services in the federal state information system "Unified system of identification and authentication in infrastructure, providing information and technological interaction of information systems used to provide state and municipal services in electronic form "in accordance with the requirements, Established by the federal law "On Communications," by November 30, 2021, the document says.

The draft resolution was developed in order to implement the federal law of December 30, 2020 No. 533-FZ "On Amendments to the Federal Law" On Communications "(will enter into force on June 1).

Earlier, the Ministry of Digital Affairs explained that Roskomnadzor was empowered by law to monitor the compliance of telecom operators with the obligation to verify the reliability of information about the subscriber and information about users by the communication services of the legal entity subscriber. The information provided by law will be transferred to Roskomnadzor in accordance with the adopted 533-FZ. The agency will be able to block corporate SIM cards, the authenticity of the owners of which is not confirmed.^[1]

2019

Calls from pay phones became free

On November 14, 2019, Rostelecom announced the abolition of fees for intra-zone and long-distance calls from payphones of universal communication service (UUS) to mobile numbers of Russian telecom operators. Thus, from payphones you can call any fixed and cellular numbers in Russia for free.

Rostelecom is the only operator of universal service services in Russia. It has 148 thousand UUS payphones which are located 131 thousand settlements of the country, from them 118 thousand or 80% of total are settlements, villages, villages, villages and auls with the population less than 500 people (data on the middle of November, 2019).

Rostelecom announced the abolition of fees for intra-zone and long-distance calls from payphones of universal communication service (UUS) to mobile numbers

Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky recalled that from June 1, 2019, the company provided the opportunity to call any landline in the country completely free and without a payphone card.

We step by step increase the availability and ease of use of universal communication services... I am sure that the demand for universal services will become even greater and they will help rural residents solve the maximum of everyday tasks for free - from calls to relatives and friends to working with the public services portal, "he said.

Despite the widespread spread of mobile phones, UUS payphones still remain and perform primarily a social function - this is still the only means of communication in many remote and inaccessible settlements of the country.

Rostelecom says that a significant part of traffic from pay phones is made up of calls to emergency operational services (ambulance, police, fire service, anti-terror). Every call to these services speaks of the emergence of some extraordinary situation on which the life, health and safety of people depends.

Earlier, Rostelecom canceled the fee for Internet access at Wi-Fi points, which are installed in small rural settlements.^[2]

2018

Data from HSE Institute for Statistical Research and Knowledge Economics (ISIEZ)

Telephone (fixed and mobile radiotelephone) communication remains one of the main means of communication. Since 2010, there has been a trend towards a decrease in the number of fixed telephone subscribers and an increase in the level of penetration of mobile radiotelephone. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in 2018 the number of fixed telephone subscribers per 100 people. the population in the world decreased to 12.4, and mobile radiotelephone - on the contrary, increased to 107. This trend is characteristic of most countries, including Russia^[3]

In Russia, the telephone density of fixed communications since 2010 year decreased by 5% annually and in 2018 year amounted to 20.8 per 100 people. population (Figure 1). The number of mobile telephone subscribers during this period grew by an average of 2% per year and by 2018 reached 156.3 per 100 people. population, which is higher than in developed countries1 such as Canada (85.9), Australia (112.7), Great Britain (119.6), USA (123.3), Germany (129.1), Japan (133.5), Italy (141.3).

The high density of telephone communications in Russia contributed to the growth in the use of phones in households. According to 2017 data, 99.8% of households had a phone. More than half (55.1%) of them used only a mobile phone, 44.3% - both mobile and stationary devices.

The development of telephony technologies has led to the fact that access to the Internet has become one of the main functions of the use of mobile phones. The population increasingly enters the Internet through cellular and wireless networks. In 2018, 59.8% of the adult population of Russia used cellular communications to access the Internet outside the home or work with a mobile phone (smartphone) (the average annual growth rate for 2015-2018 was 26.6%), wireless - 32.8% (21.5%).

See also

• Cellular (Russian market)
• Long-distance communication (Russian market)
• Wired communication (Russian market)

• Cellular (mobile) communication (global market)
• Radio Relay (Global Market)
• Communications (Kazakhstan market)
• Communication (Moldovan market)
• Communication (Polish market)
• Communications (Russian market)
• Communication (Romanian market)
• Communications (US market)
• Communication (Japanese market)
• Communications (India market)
• Cellular communication (market of Belarus)
• Cellular (Cuban market)
• Cellular (Tajikistan market)
• Cellular communications (Uzbekistan market)
• Cellular communications (Ukrainian market)

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