Rostelecom bought the equipment for accomplishment of the Yarovaya Law for 7.8 billion rubles

At the beginning of October, 2020 Rostelecom bought the equipment for accomplishment of the Yarovaya Law for 7.8 billion rubles. The telecommunication operator signed 10 contracts which include deliveries of the equipment of MFI Soft company (enters into ICKX Holding) and the switching equipment and services in design, development and software testing (the supplier of these contracts does not reveal).

That Rostelecom purchased the equipment for investigation and search operations (SORM) within performance of the Yarovaya Law (obligatory storage of telephone conversations, text messages, images, sounds and videos), the Kommersant newspaper with reference to the website of state procurements wrote.

Rostelecom bought the equipment for accomplishment of the Yarovaya Law for 7.8 billion rubles

According to the CEO of the TelecomDaily agency Denis Kuskov, the means spent for purchase are the noticeable amount for Rostelecom — it is comparable to the amount of investments of the companies into updating of mobile networks. The expert noted that the purchased equipment is required to the operator not only for own needs, but also for "outsourcing" of execution of requirements of the law for child Tele2 and small providers.

According to the director of the company of Promobit (the developer and Bitblaze DWH producer) Maxim Koposov, Rostelecom at the volumes in principle can utilize the purchased equipment and independently. However, small operators really will need "autsorsit" fulfillment of requirements of the Yarovaya Law, and Rostelecom will be able to make it without any additional costs, it already anyway stores all traffic passing through it, including the fact that other providers buy from it, Kommersant notes.

The mobile operators, largest in Russia, estimate the expenses on performance of the Yarovaya Law at 40-50 billion rubles (for each of them) in 5 five years.^[1]

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