Internet will double in price

Lenta.Ru: INTERNET: http://lenta.ru/internet/2002/11/26/provaiders/ Updated 11/26/2002 at 2:01:09 pm Internet will double in price Following the RTKomm.Ru company, the two largest Russian provider - Golden Telecom and MTU-Intel will increase prices on the wholesale Internet traffic market, Kommersant reports. Companies are going to charge for sent domestic Russian traffic per gigabyte, not based on fixed monthly payments. According to the providers themselves, the previous model led to situations when, at a wholesale price for 1 gigabyte of traffic (with connection in Moscow) at 5-20 dollars, final Moscow the user in his office or home received the same gigabyte for price 50-120 dollars. Providers hope that new business the model will make prices “more transparent and understandable.” According to the owner of the site "Independent Review of Providers" Alexander Militsky, the new rules will inevitably lead to increasing prices for Internet access. "User costs for receipt of the same volume of services will increase, and for some categories of subscribers may grow by one and a half to two times," - noted Alexander Militsky. Experts believe that the new tariff policy of large companies will lead to increased costs for small and medium-sized companiesoperators for traffic. Thus, increasing inter-operator costs prices will be allowed by MTU-Intel, Golden Telecom and RTKomm.Ru continue to push small operators out of the market. If he grows up price from primary providers, this will most likely get the job done small companies are less profitable and will allow the top three to increase companies their market share, which currently stands at 47 percent. Write to us: info@lenta.ru Copyright c 2002 Lenta.Ru License of the Ministry of Press El? 77-4400 Hosting - Rambler Telecom Lenta.Ru