Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sistema JSFC, during a
meeting with Vladimir Putin made an interesting statement that the Russian market will be closed for devices without a GLONASS chip. This refers to receivers, telephones, handhelds and smartphones.
Yevtushenko also said that "conversations were held with almost all suppliers of such equipment, such as Nokia, Siemens, Motorola." All of them understand that “we will still close the market for equipment that will be without a GLONASS chip. They just need us to legally do this. ”
For legislative consolidation, however, in his opinion, still need to "embroider some of their questions, make chipsets, and so on and so forth." "But, in principle, they will survive this calmly, because the Americans justly defended their market at the time when they switched to GPS."