Zello

Zello is the company in Austin, the USA. It is founded in 2011. The main direction - development and a network application support for negotiations with use of mobile devices.

Zello is the free application for the devices working on operating systems Android BlackBerry and iOS which allows to transfer voice messages by analogy with the radio set. With its help one interlocutor can send messages or to create multi-user channels therefore it became popular among activists and long-distance truck drivers. As stated in the Zello group on social network "VKontakte", the application has 200 thousand open channels to which it is also possible to be connected, and service is set at 100 million users. In Russia at Zello more than 400 thousand active users.

2018: Blocking in Russia Part II

Ddostup to the Zello Internet radio set in the territory of Russia is closed. According to the Vedomosti edition with reference to one of founders of service Alexey Gavrilov, a year of attempt of Roskomnadzor to block Zello in the Russian Federation later were crowned with success, and now the Russian users can get access to it only through VPN.

2017: Blocking in Russia

Roskomnadzor sent in April, 2017 to the Russian telecom operators the requirement about blocking of the Zello application, they should execute it within a day, the representative of supervisory authority Ampelonsky Vadim told RBC. The reason — the owner of Zello Inc service. did not send to department data for inclusion in the register of the organizers of dissemination of information (ODI) in time^[1].

According to the law "About Communication" the mail services, messengers, forums and other services allowing Internet users to exchange electronic messages belong to ORI. Since July 1, 2018 ORI will have to store information on the facts of message exchange of the users within a year, and contents of these messages, an audio recording of calls, images, etc. — before half a year. ORI will have to provide this information upon the demand of law enforcement agencies. If on delivery and processing of electronic messages additional coding is used, the companies should provide information, necessary for decoding, in FSB. In more detail about a situation you look here.

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