[News] NEB: central press

───────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────────────── * Forwarded by Oleg Grigoriev (500:812/1.11) from area RU.NEWS. * From : Felix, 2:5030/1440.2@fidonet (Thu 24 Feb 2000, 18:14) * To : All * Subj : [News] NEB: central press ───────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────────────── Central press 24 February Thursday [censored] Recently, as Trud reminds, some media hastened to report that in 2001 in Russia in general and in Moscow - in particular, temporary payment for telephone calls. Allegedly after exceeding the monthly limit (and it will be 613 minutes, on average 20 minutes - daily) citizens They will force you to fork out extra money. For each a capital resident is obliged to spend an extra minute of conversation will pay 10 kopecks. MGTS advises against rush things and claim that decisions limit telephone conversations of individuals not yet. Legal entities have been here for two years now are transferred to "time-by-time", and by April 1 this process will end in the capital. Monthly limit for them is actually 613 minutes. Every minute telephone communication beyond the budget for organizations it costs 11 kopecks, for commercial ones - in 40. Assistant to the Minister of Communications of the Russian Federation Alexander Bachmanov -opponent of early discussion of innovation, which is still only “in the project”. The decision on "time-to-time" for citizens, according to him, they will acceptMinistry of Antimonopoly Policy and administration of each region separately. For in different cities, regions, territories, republics - their own specificity. Poor Permians, for example, like Bachmanov assures us that we are ready to give up even now subscription fee for telephones and go to temporary. It's cheaper because from May to October many of them live in dachas or with relatives in village and don’t use phones at all in their city apartments. By the way, in Perm, as well as in Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod are now on experiments. Solvency is being determined population, the willingness of signalmen to introduce innovation. A working group has been created at the federal level, methods for calculating tariffs are being developed time-based payment for telephone calls. To the capital's citizens for every minute "hello" over the limit, you might really have to pay 10 kopecks, but residents of other cities do not It is possible that it is half as much. So far, experts agree on one thing: in Russia in in principle it is impossible to introduce the so-called "on time" everywhere and in a short time, notes "Trud". Not only is the majority of the population insolvent, there won’t be enough special technology, equipment, so that every "talker" put it on the counter. In rural areas it is the innovation is unlikely to be adopted into service the next decade. It will cost too much set up calculation of unlimited minutestelephone communication of villagers with each other. At the same time The signalmen may have no income at all. B provinces people (not like in White Stone) “Trud” believes that he doesn’t particularly like to talk. Review prepared by: Vyacheslav Suslin -+- + Origin: STAR SPb (2:5030/1440.2) ────────────────────── { End of Forwarded Message } ────────────────────── [WBR, Oleg. ] [ 17:14 26 February XXXV A.S. ]