Ukrainians will be fined for free Wi-Fi and hacked passwords
“Reform” in the field of telecommunications, namely, the adoption of recently proposed bills No. 2264 of October 15.10.2019, 2320 and No. 28.10.2019 of October XNUMX, XNUMX, will lead to a significant increase in state intervention in regulating the electronic communications market, monopolization of the market, and an increase in tariffs for Internet access to European level and the displacement of domestic operators by foreign companies.
Representatives of the Internet Association of Ukraine (InAU) stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The President and the government promised deregulation, and in return there will be repression on the Internet. We call for the bills to be withdrawn and for the necessary time to be allocated to process the new document. If additional regulation is introduced, there must be a clear justification for what problem this regulation solves,” said Anatoly Pyatnikov, head of the InAU Board.
Chairman of the InAU Committee on ICT in Education, Vice-President of the USPP Ivan Petukhov noted that both bills strengthen regulatory functions and contradict regulatory standards in a stable and saturated market, which is the Ukrainian telecommunications market. In addition, in Ukraine it will no longer be possible to distribute Wi-Fi for free, and if your home password is hacked, you will have problems with the tax authorities.
“The bills beautifully bring each of us, who has not bothered about a strong password for our Wi-Fi at home, under the regulation of the NCRI (National Commission for State Regulation in the Field of Communications and Information). And that’s not all - we are immediately framed and handed over to the tax office. If you give away free Internet - and nothing can be given out for free - you become a subject of taxation. If your password was broken and someone used it for free, pay money for it along with penalties. Well, you know how our tax office loves it - the SPD officer didn’t report on something on time, they don’t find him right away, but after two and a half years so that the penalty increases.
This is in the definitions (of the bill). Moreover, it is written so beautifully that you don’t seem to understand it right away. But you begin to read more deeply - all this confusion leads to only one thing: in order to enslave, in order to make everyone complicit in the crime,” he said.
Under the guise of “improvement” and the so-called independence of the regulator, a corrupt criminal apparatus is being created to “squeeze out” and destroy small market participants. As a result, there will be 4-5 operators in the country without Ukrainian capital, according to InAU.
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