FAS vs NWT: answer for dial-up
In July, St. Petersburg's Internet providers were forced to raise dial-up rates. Prices for dial-up access jumped by about half, which, of course, has caused discontent among users. One of Petersburgers filed a complaint with the FAS, and antimonopolists took up the problem.
The service filed a case against North-West Telecom (NWT), since the actions that pushed local providers of access to the dial-up tariff change originated from this company. The fact is that since July 1, NWT began charging providers for calls from its subscribers to their modem pools, and the size of this fee was 12 to 20 rubles per hour. According to Fontanka, this resulted in an increase in the cost of Internet cards by two or three times.
The FAS leadership in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast stated that the claim to the monopolist has not yet been precisely formulated, but the violations to the service specialists are obvious: this is an abuse of a dominant position on the local telephone market, and a change in mutual settlements in the field of dial-up Internet access. As a result, the rights of a number of providers were infringed, and the smallest of them, informs Fontanka, ceased to exist at all.
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According to the results of the investigation, which will take about 9 months, a fine may be issued, transmit to Vedomosti the words of the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Oleg Kolomyiychenko. The situation can be changed by contacting the Rossvyaznadzor (or the Federal Tariff Service) with a request to reduce tariffs for inter-operator settlements. At the same time, it is known that Rossvyaznadzor changes tariffs for interconnection and traffic transmission services not more than once a year - and only upon the request of the operator itself.
Recall, tariffs in mutual settlements between fixed-line operators and Internet providers changed on July 1 with the entry into force of the corresponding amendment to the Law on Telecommunications. Then Rossvyaznadzor ordered NWT to establish in St. Petersburg a tariff for interconnection and traffic transmission not exceeding 18 kopecks per minute, and the operator was not slow to use the right to assign the highest rates to providers. As mentioned above, in the end it hit the pocket of the end user.
However, according to Vedomosti, market participants do not believe that NWT will reduce tariffs. According to Peterstar, Peterstar, Peterstar, a commercial director, North-West Telecom acted within the law, and it will be difficult to bring matters down to reducing tariffs: “From the point of view of the law, the operator is clean, although he could not set maximum tariffs.”
The service filed a case against North-West Telecom (NWT), since the actions that pushed local providers of access to the dial-up tariff change originated from this company. The fact is that since July 1, NWT began charging providers for calls from its subscribers to their modem pools, and the size of this fee was 12 to 20 rubles per hour. According to Fontanka, this resulted in an increase in the cost of Internet cards by two or three times.
The FAS leadership in St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast stated that the claim to the monopolist has not yet been precisely formulated, but the violations to the service specialists are obvious: this is an abuse of a dominant position on the local telephone market, and a change in mutual settlements in the field of dial-up Internet access. As a result, the rights of a number of providers were infringed, and the smallest of them, informs Fontanka, ceased to exist at all.
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According to the results of the investigation, which will take about 9 months, a fine may be issued, transmit to Vedomosti the words of the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Oleg Kolomyiychenko. The situation can be changed by contacting the Rossvyaznadzor (or the Federal Tariff Service) with a request to reduce tariffs for inter-operator settlements. At the same time, it is known that Rossvyaznadzor changes tariffs for interconnection and traffic transmission services not more than once a year - and only upon the request of the operator itself.
Recall, tariffs in mutual settlements between fixed-line operators and Internet providers changed on July 1 with the entry into force of the corresponding amendment to the Law on Telecommunications. Then Rossvyaznadzor ordered NWT to establish in St. Petersburg a tariff for interconnection and traffic transmission not exceeding 18 kopecks per minute, and the operator was not slow to use the right to assign the highest rates to providers. As mentioned above, in the end it hit the pocket of the end user.
However, according to Vedomosti, market participants do not believe that NWT will reduce tariffs. According to Peterstar, Peterstar, Peterstar, a commercial director, North-West Telecom acted within the law, and it will be difficult to bring matters down to reducing tariffs: “From the point of view of the law, the operator is clean, although he could not set maximum tariffs.”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4615/
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