Residents of Crimea will have to change their phone numbers
Moscow - Sevastopol, March 19 (Navigator, Zurab Margvelashvili) - With the transition to Russian laws and standards, telephone subscribers in Crimea and Sevastopol will have to change numbers. In this case, it will be necessary to change the SIM cards of cell phones, experts note.
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“We have established contact with local structures. Now we are studying the situation: what frequencies are occupied, how many media outlets are registered, and so on,” noted Roskomnadzor official representative Vadim Ampelonsky, answering a question from an Izvestia correspondent.
Today, telephone operators and Internet providers in Crimea and Sevastopol are connected to the outside world by trunk communication lines passing through the territory of Ukraine. So the availability of international communications and Internet access on the peninsula depends on the goodwill of Kyiv. However, laying a main cable across the Kerch Strait to Russia will be relatively inexpensive: the cost of 1 km, according to iKS-Consulting managing partner Konstantin Ankilov, is 200 thousand rubles. From Kerch to Anapa it is about 100 km, that is, we are talking about several tens of millions of rubles.
Mobile communication services in Crimea are provided by five major operators. Among them are the subsidiaries of the Russian MTS and VimpelCom. If Ukraine presents claims to Russian operators regarding work on the peninsula (here we can recall how in 2008 a Georgian court fined MegaFon for “illegal work” on the territory of Abkhazia), companies will have to think about how to work in new Russian regions and not quarrel with Kiev.
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