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FAS began roaming “Megaphone”

the Federal Antimonopoly service (FAS) announced the initiation of administrative proceedings against the cellular operator “MegaFon”. The case related to the declared “MegaFon” in December 2016, higher roaming prices.

Then the operator increased prices for roaming in 38 countries in an amount of from 20% to 2200%. At the same time, as noted in the FAS, other operators that are in a comparable relationship with foreign roaming partners, prices are not increased.

Why MegaFon raises prices

At the end of 2016 “MegaFon” has divided European countries into four roaming zones due to changes in roaming partners, rates for interconnection. Roaming prices for subscribers has changed based on these zones. The average increase was 5.8 times.

the FAS initiated a case upon the increase of the “MegaFon” price for international roaming.

“for a Long time our prices were much lower than the competition, but the decline in consumption of roaming services, currency appreciation, rising prices of roaming partners forced us to revise base rates – said in “the Megaphone”. – Thus, now the basic price of MegaFon comparable to the prices of other Russian operators and service parts and directions is even lower. In addition, we have decreased the cost of mobile Internet in some countries and decreased the cost of the voice packet solutions”.

MTS decided not to argue with the FAS

At the end of 2016, the operator “Mobile TeleSystems” (MTS) was also going to raise the price of roaming. It was announced that on December 9, 2016 roaming tariffs in 39 countries will increase by the amount of 13%.

However, after this, the FAS were interested in annaprasana roaming and made the request in the MTS. As a result, MTS has refused to raise fares. Deputy head of the FAS Anatoly Golomolzin explained that just intervention service.

at the same time the FAS made inquiries regarding the price of roaming to the other three largest mobile operators: MegaFon, VimpelCom and Tele2. The FAS explained that it was intention to warn about the “danger of unlawful action.” However, “MegaFon” decided to increase tariffs.