"Operators are in difficult conditions

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Traffic is growing, the number of new subscribers is not increasing sharply. In terms of network modernization, they have fewer and fewer resources to carry out this modernization in a timely manner, because there are no sources of financing. We will discuss how to ensure that the investment activity of operators, given all the requirements of the state, is at the proper level," said the head of the ministry, Maksut Shadayev.

The roadmap currently includes 62 events aimed at creating additional measures for the development of the domestic information technology industry. Of these, 20 are of a system-wide nature and provide for a number of measures to ensure equal conditions for doing business in the Russian Federation for domestic IT companies and international Internet russia whatsapp number list corporations. The remaining 42 events involve the introduction and stimulation of Russian developments in specific segments.

The introduction of a fee for traffic is considered by the Ministry of Digital Development to be an effective measure to support operators, since the emergence of such alternative sources of financing will serve as an impetus for network modernization.

Kirill Morozov, Director of the Practice for Services to Companies in the Field of Communications, IT and Media at PwC in Russia, is convinced that there is logic to this proposal, but everything depends on the volume of payments that will have to be paid to video services.

“As a result of the implementation of these measures, the prices of goods and services on the Internet may increase,” he said.

Denis Chernooky, Director of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice at KPMG, proposes introducing preferences for foreign OTT companies (video transmission technology over the Internet) when implementing this event.

“Otherwise, many foreign players may simply leave,” Chernooky believes.

However, not everyone considered this initiative progressive. Thus, the CEO of the Institute for Internet Research Karen Kazaryan said that such a proposal was doomed to failure.