FZ-229 - hands off the main mobile account

Law

The State Duma has been stamping laws for quite a long time, limiting everything up to which the hands reach out.
But there is one law that all subscribers of mobile providers will unequivocally approve.




Starting tomorrow, May 1, 2014, federal law No. 229- “ On Amending the Federal Law“ On Communications ”comes into force.
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What is he talking about?

Its text, as usual, is a bit blurred and not entirely clear, but I will try to explain how this will affect real subscribers.

Since May 1, you, as subscribers of a mobile operator, have the right to create a separate personal account from which funds will be debited in case of a call to the content service number. Call should be understood as a call, and SMS, the transition to a paid page on the network, mobile subscription, and so on. In general, any action related to content providers.

You can create a LAN for content services by contacting the office of your telecom operator and, possibly, through the WEB-portal for the subscriber.

If you make a call to the content service if there is a separate medicine for the service, the funds will be charged from it. If there is not enough money on it - theoretically services should not be provided.
If there is no separate medicine, the funds will be deducted from the main account.

It is also not yet clear how the procedure for crediting funds to a separate account will be carried out. Most likely, at the time of launch, it will be possible to transfer funds from the main account via USSD. Perhaps later, an additional option will appear in the terminals.

Summary

Starting from May 1, it is definitely worth coming to the office of your mobile operator and creating a separate account for content services.

The law is definitely positive for the subscriber. The only visible drawback is that operators' revenues from the sale (or mediation in the sale) of content services will fall, and this may affect the cost of non-content current services.

Ps MTS has an excellent service Advice of Charge (AoC), there is information about it on the wiki .
Probably, this service will seem to someone more convenient than creating a separate drug.