Russia Migrating To Cpp

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Originally Posted by Asick

Today is the first day of CPP here. Surely, we had no celebrations, although people are going to arrange protests in some Russian regions, where the prices have been raised (outgoing calls prices, GPRS etc., which was declared to be 'inevitable increase to compensate extra expenses because of CPP'). Luckily, nothing has changed in St.Petersburg cellular tariffs, except of the 0.00 per incoming calls. So, Russia is no longer CSP, keep it in mind.

Well, when you announced for first time that president Putin signed the CPP law, I asked you if anyone in the Duma was against. That time, I didn't think about necessary raising the rates of calls to mobile phones and what will be the reaction of the society for this aspect of CPP (I feel justified however for not thinking about this - Poland moved to CPP sometime in 1994 when only 0.5% of population had mobile phones ).

But why the hell GPRS is more expensive? What does it have in common with CPP?