I don’t know whether this is good or bad, but the administration of St. Petersburg has got its own virtual mobile operator (MVNO) at its disposal. Without hesitation, it was decided to call the mobile operator for the Smolny administration Smolny. Now, after the distribution of SIM cards among the employees of the administration, Smolny will be displayed on the phone display. Well, but original. Unfortunately for those who follow government projects, the amount that went to create their own virtual operator of the St. Petersburg administration remains unknown.
By the way, the Smolny sims will be received by all Smolny officials without exception (it sounds good, yeah). First, as usual, SIM cards will be distributed among the authorities, and then they will move on to the “distribution of elephants” among ordinary officials. Unfortunately, the exact number of potential subscribers of the new operator is unknown - but, can anyone know the number of officials in Smolny? It will be possible to find out the approximate number of subscribers.
It should be noted that the license for the provision of mobile communication services was obtained by Smolny in October 2010, and in order to speed up the process of putting this operator into operation, an agreement was signed with Megafon. The essence of the contract is the possibility of using the equipment of an “adult” operator for the operation of a virtual operator. As mentioned above, it is still unknown how much the creation of a “pocket” mobile operator for the city budget cost. But in principle, according to Rosbalt, in the budget of St. Petersburg about 500 million rubles have been set aside for the deployment of the Unified Multi-Functional Telecommunications Network (EMTS).
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Usually MVNOs are used by large and not-so-large companies for marketing purposes, why it is not yet clear to our own mobile operator.