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About different regions, I'm sure that this will be working the way it works now, I mean the CPP rule will only be applied while a subscriber is located within his or her home region, otherwise it would be treated as 'innernetwork' roaming, which does include approximately $0.20-$0.30/min per any incoming call on it's tariff list. I don't think it'll be changed in the nearest future, I have not heard any plans about canceling this feature. The only thing we can expect here is merging some regions from the cellular point of view (i.e. local tariffs for the whole North-West or Central, or another big area).
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But Moscow and St. Petersburg will remain separate? I suppose that very many (most?) Russian mobile users live in those two cities and the distance between them (about 650 km AFAIR) isn't anything unusual in many other European countries. If they remain separate, that will make good conditions for ripping off
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Anyway, this is reasonable, just imagine how much a call from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok might cost and so on. Making this flat all around the country would inevitable result into global raising of the current tariffs. |
Oh yes, I realise that large countries suffer from size-specific problems
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But I don't want to imagine anything - how much does a call from Kaliningrad or Sochi to the Pacific coast really cost? Tariffs from abroad to Russia don't necessarily distinguish regions. Are they created on the assumption that most calls won't go east of Moscow
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BTW, 0044 from UK to Russia looks quite interesting:
Mobile $0.26 per minute
Russia Landline $0.26 per minute
Russia - Moscow Landline $0.17 per minute
Russia - Sakhalin Landline $0.25 per minute
Russia - St. Petersburg Landline $0.16 per minute
Why Sakhalin is 1 cent cheaper? A direct link from Japan?
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I'm not sure if there were some opponents to the CPP rule in the Duma, I don't know the details, but I guess there were not really much, because it's quite difficult to imagine even a few arguments against CPP. AFAIK they discussed mostly about some details (dates, billing, mutual charges etc.).
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It's not so obvious after all. In the USA and Canada they even accept paying for incoming SMSes :whistle:. BTW, somebody from the USA on the forum (possibly DRNewcomb, but not 100% sure now) explained me that for him it's better to use nonCPP billing and I even agreed with his pricing details....Yes, with thousand minutes of airtime for a few dollars a month one could live without CPP
. Russian transition to CPP was commented also on the Polish GSM newsgroups and - what a surprise - not all supported CPP! I asked one of them "how much would you accept to pay for a minute of incoming calls if your mobile phone had a landline number?" He answered "$15 (roughly convereted from Polish zlotys) a month for 1500 minutes of airtimes would be OK". I can't see any operator here which could accept 1 cent/min only mobile surcharge
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Originally Posted by Asick
Most of the Russian cellular numbers are placed within their own cellular codes (usually +79...) like in Europe, but some numbers do really have local numbers, as if they were fixed. However, most of them have aliases placed in +79..., so a local
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Most, but not all??? So does this mean that some mobile phones will have to obtain new +79... numbers because they only landline ones now?
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And, surely, nobody here is going to specially bill calls to fixed number ranges, because this would be really crazy, this would kill the billing systems all around Russia.  |
Do you mean local calls (which are AFAIK free everywhere in Russia)?