Communications between Belarus and Russia will become cheaper on a permanent basis

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oup meeting, at which participants will propose steps to increase the availability of roaming tariffs and consider the issue of its cancellation, will be held on September 27, 2024," said Pavel Tkach. "We understand that cellular communications are a highly profitable business, we are considering the issue of canceling roaming and at the same time we do not see any point in compensating for the lost income of Belarusian operators, since this is a social burden for them, and they have other sources of income. However, I cannot say exactly what decisions we will make, since we can come to a different decision at the meeting, but it is obvious to us that things are moving forward."

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From September 1, 2021, new t cameroon whatsapp resourceariffs will be applied for roaming subscribers of Belarus and Russia. The parties agreed to end the trial operation of communication channels in the context of reduced interconnect rates for roaming traffic in the Union State. For incoming and outgoing calls to all Russian numbers, the cost of a minute has fallen more than four times, the cost of one megabyte of Internet traffic - more than seven times. The traffic of subscribers with per-minute billing has increased several times since November 1, 2020, when the experiment began.

Currently, roaming is available for subscribers of Russian mobile operators in the Republic of Belarus. Subscribers of PJSC VimpelCom (brand Beeline) will pay 2.5 rubles per minute for an incoming call with a free limit of 15 minutes, and 6.5 rubles for an outgoing call to Russia, an SMS message will cost 3.5 rubles, and 1 GB of mobile Internet will cost 450 rubles per day (if it is exceeded, the speed drops to 128 kbps).

Subscribers of OOO T2 Mobile (T2, formerly known as Tele2) have a similar tariff. They will have to pay 6 rubles per minute of outgoing call to a Belarusian number and 3.5 rubles per minute to a Russian number, a day of mobile Internet will cost 400 rubles, and outgoing SMS - 1.95 rubles for a number in the Russian Federation and 5.5 rubles for a number in the Republic of Belarus.

PJSC MegaFon has set a subscription fee of 33 rubles per day, SMS, incoming and outgoing calls cost 3 rubles per message and minute, respectively, and the Internet costs 9.9 rubles per 1 MB.

MTS offers subscribers an unlimited Internet package (after 1 GB is used up, the speed drops to 128 kbps) for 550 rubles per day, and a minute of telephone conversations with numbers in Russia will cost 5 rubles per minute, with numbers in Belarus - 2 rubles per minute.

Representatives of the press service of MegaFon, T2 and MTS declined to comment, and a representative of the press service of Beeline did not answer questions from a ComNews correspondent.

Denis Kuskov, CEO of Telecom Daily LLC, compared the long-term discussion of the abolition of roaming to the TV series Santa Barbara. He noted that the operator must work in accordance with the country's communications law. According to Denis Kuskov, in order to soften roaming conditions and abolish it, it is necessary to amend the communications law of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, but this has not happened yet.

"They have been talking about easing roaming, or rather about a single roaming-free space, for over 10 years," said Eldar Murtazin, a leading analyst at Mobile Research Group. "A whole series of documents were signed, and it ended with Belarusian operators not wanting to do this. The reason is simple: they receive a lot of money for roaming of Russian subscribers, and it is not profitable for them. Despite the fact that the issue was discussed at the highest level by the presidents of both countries, things are s