When leaving, do not forget the number
The issue of introducing the service of portability of fixed phone numbers when the subscriber of a cellular operator changes. The current president Dmitry Medvedev himself commissioned the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media to develop a strategy for the implementation of MNP in Russia. However, for verification, many problems immediately appeared that prevented a quick resolution of this issue.
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Recall that in Russia there is no state regulation of inter-operator tariffs. This turns into a major problem, because a competitor operator with a lower tariff, will have to pay extra for interconnect (mutual traffic exchange between networks) to the operator from which the subscriber left, but left the old phone number behind him.
Operators see this service as unprofitable, because based on statistics made by ROMIR research company, today only 2% of subscribers are potentially interested in number portability. At the same time, according to estimates by one of the largest operators of MTS OJSC, the introduction of MNP will only cost the so-called Big Three operators (MTS, Megafon, Vimpeltelecom) to cost an average of $ 400 million . And such a discounter operator as Tele2, which ranks fourth in the number of subscribers in Russia, estimates its estimated costs for the implementation of this service at 10-15 million euros .
Thus, discounter operators have only two options: either to work at a loss, or to raise tariffs for subscribers who have switched to them from other networks in order to equalize the costs of interconnect.
However, the global history of MNP implementation shows more optimistic examples. So in Finland, the introduction of MNP led to the emergence of three new operators and a reduction in tariffs by 30%. In the United States, according to the Stanford Institute for Economic Research, after the introduction of MNP, tariffs for communication services decreased by an average of 4–4.5%, while the cumulative reduction in subscriber costs was about $ 120 million per month. In Europe, after the introduction of MNP, a decrease in mobile communication tariffs was recorded on average by 4%, while on fixed-line tariffs - up to 11%.
So it’s early to make predictions. The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Dmitry Rutenberg considers the main task for the successful introduction of the MNP service in Russia is the “equalization” of interconnect tariffs. This is exactly what the Ministry of Communications should take up closely as the development of a strategy to introduce this service en masse.
The information for you was prepared by the team of the company MyAsterisk
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Recall that in Russia there is no state regulation of inter-operator tariffs. This turns into a major problem, because a competitor operator with a lower tariff, will have to pay extra for interconnect (mutual traffic exchange between networks) to the operator from which the subscriber left, but left the old phone number behind him.
Operators see this service as unprofitable, because based on statistics made by ROMIR research company, today only 2% of subscribers are potentially interested in number portability. At the same time, according to estimates by one of the largest operators of MTS OJSC, the introduction of MNP will only cost the so-called Big Three operators (MTS, Megafon, Vimpeltelecom) to cost an average of $ 400 million . And such a discounter operator as Tele2, which ranks fourth in the number of subscribers in Russia, estimates its estimated costs for the implementation of this service at 10-15 million euros .
Thus, discounter operators have only two options: either to work at a loss, or to raise tariffs for subscribers who have switched to them from other networks in order to equalize the costs of interconnect.
However, the global history of MNP implementation shows more optimistic examples. So in Finland, the introduction of MNP led to the emergence of three new operators and a reduction in tariffs by 30%. In the United States, according to the Stanford Institute for Economic Research, after the introduction of MNP, tariffs for communication services decreased by an average of 4–4.5%, while the cumulative reduction in subscriber costs was about $ 120 million per month. In Europe, after the introduction of MNP, a decrease in mobile communication tariffs was recorded on average by 4%, while on fixed-line tariffs - up to 11%.
So it’s early to make predictions. The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Dmitry Rutenberg considers the main task for the successful introduction of the MNP service in Russia is the “equalization” of interconnect tariffs. This is exactly what the Ministry of Communications should take up closely as the development of a strategy to introduce this service en masse.
The information for you was prepared by the team of the company MyAsterisk
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/142773/
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