Russia Migrating To Cpp

Asick · 28-06-2006, 12:09

It's known 1st of July is the date when CPP (calling party pays) will actually be launched in Russia, because the new law regulations including the CPP rule are going to be officially valid since that day. So, the current situation is following:

- All the cellular operators (or at least most of them including the biggest ones) have already declared any incoming calls will be free since 1st of July. There's one more funny thing that some tariffs have free incoming calls since May of June, which was positioning as a sort of incredible offer from an operator.

So, fixed->local cellular calls were free for about 1-2 months for both sides. You may guess this would result in network busy problems and collapses on some BTS? No, everything was and is fine, may be because people here are not used to call cellulars from landlines (keep thinking this would make a person you call to pay for your call).

- Landline monopolists have declared calls from fixed phones to cellulars of the same regions to be not free since 1st of July. The tariff is set from the state committee (since it's being regulated by them as other monopolist's tariffs), and is 1.5 rubles/min in most of the Russian regions except of some far-north ones, where the tariff is a bit higher. Actually, 1.5 rubles/min is the highest allowed by the committee tariff, but it's the same as the tariff actually used in most of the regions, as you may guess.

1.5 rubles is about 5.5 USD cents or 4.4 Euro cents, which is not very expensive, so sometimes it will be cheaper to call a cellphone from a fixed phone, than to call it from another cellphone.

- Rumor has that some cellular operators asked for 4 or 5 cents per minute for accepting incoming traffic from other operators, but this won't apply to fixed operators (because 1.5 rubles/min can't be exceeded and fixed operators won't pay more than they get from their subscribers for such the calls) and it's supposed to kill sub 4-5 cents/min offers to mobiles to any operator of your home region, but all of them are still alive on the market.

So, the CPP rule is about to start working here since 1st of July, both in the law and in the operators' tariffs, eventually.

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Asick (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 544 Join Date: 15 Apr 2004 Location: St.Petersburg Country:	28-06-2006, 12:09 It's known 1st of July is the date when CPP (calling party pays) will actually be launched in Russia, because the new law regulations including the CPP rule are going to be officially valid since that day. So, the current situation is following: - All the cellular operators (or at least most of them including the biggest ones) have already declared any incoming calls will be free since 1st of July. There's one more funny thing that some tariffs have free incoming calls since May of June, which was positioning as a sort of incredible offer from an operator. So, fixed->local cellular calls were free for about 1-2 months for both sides. You may guess this would result in network busy problems and collapses on some BTS? No, everything was and is fine, may be because people here are not used to call cellulars from landlines (keep thinking this would make a person you call to pay for your call). - Landline monopolists have declared calls from fixed phones to cellulars of the same regions to be not free since 1st of July. The tariff is set from the state committee (since it's being regulated by them as other monopolist's tariffs), and is 1.5 rubles/min in most of the Russian regions except of some far-north ones, where the tariff is a bit higher. Actually, 1.5 rubles/min is the highest allowed by the committee tariff, but it's the same as the tariff actually used in most of the regions, as you may guess. 1.5 rubles is about 5.5 USD cents or 4.4 Euro cents, which is not very expensive, so sometimes it will be cheaper to call a cellphone from a fixed phone, than to call it from another cellphone. - Rumor has that some cellular operators asked for 4 or 5 cents per minute for accepting incoming traffic from other operators, but this won't apply to fixed operators (because 1.5 rubles/min can't be exceeded and fixed operators won't pay more than they get from their subscribers for such the calls) and it's supposed to kill sub 4-5 cents/min offers to mobiles to any operator of your home region, but all of them are still alive on the market. So, the CPP rule is about to start working here since 1st of July, both in the law and in the operators' tariffs, eventually. MegaFon RU * MTS RU * Tele2 RU * BeeLine UA * TIM IT * Globul BG * Etisalat EG * TravelSIM * T-Mobile MNE * iPlus PL * TIM GR * Telsim TR