Telecom operators asked to pay Mintsifra by him shadowing infected with a coronavirus

2021: Telecom operators asked to pay Mintsifra by him shadowing infected with COVID-19

On January 22, 2021 it became known about request of telecommunication companies to allocate funds for resuming of transfer of Mintsifra of the citizens given about movement infected with COVID-19 or contacting to them. The corresponding letter to the head of department Maksut Shadayev was sent by Anna Serebryanikova, heads of the working group "Information Infrastructure" integrating the main telecom operators to ANO Tsifrovaya ekonomika (is engaged in development of the national program of the same name).

According to RBC with reference to this letter, Mintsifra recommended to telecom operators to resume since December 5, 2020 unloading of geodata in the IT system of the ministry "within resuming of functioning of a system of tracking of movements of citizens", the patients with a coronavirus or being in contact with patients. Department intends to restart a system in five regions — the Republic of Buryatia, the Orenburg region, Primorsk, the Transbaikal and Krasnoyarsk regions.

Telecom operators asked to pay Mintsifra by him shadowing infected with COVID-19

Serebryanikova in the letter explained that resuming of data transmission will lead to additional costs of the companies.

Therefore, according to us, rendering by telecom operators services in processing and data transmission in a monitoring system should be performed on a paid basis within contractual relations — she noted.

The amount of compensation in the letter is not specified. Edition sources in mobile operators consider that shadowing patients can cost tens of millions of rubles a month.

Mintsifra's representative told RBC that costs of operators for shadowing insignificant because the software was developed earlier, and work requires several specialists on part-time. Sources of the edition report that earlier operators did not receive compensation for transfer of data.^[1]

2020: Order about creation of a system of tracking of contacts of citizens

On March 23, 2020 Vedomosti reported that the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin charged to the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to create the system of tracking of citizens who were in contact with coronavirus carriers. A system should be started till March 27, 2020.

She should use data of mobile operators on a geolocation of subscribers, is written in the plan of anti-epidemic actions published by the government. The possibility of the notification of citizens about contacts with virus carriers should be provided in a system – data on these contacts will be sent also to regional headquarters for fight against epidemic.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications conducts work according to order, the representative of the ministry says, but does not report any details. Any of authorities for March 23, 2020 has no system in which medical data and data of mobile operators would integrate, the director of ANO Infokultura Ivan Begtin noted. Most likely, one of subordinated organizations of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, the Ministry of Internal Affairs or FSB or one of operators will be engaged in implementation of a system, he believes.

Staff of two mobile operators claims that no orders from the ministry were received yet and cannot assume what sort data of subscribers they should give to the state^[2].

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