Out of whose pockets go free incoming

It's amazing with how many greedy impatience to "mobilize" the Russians are waiting for legislation on the introduction of free incoming calls on all phones. And how little (relatively few) people think about many of the inevitable consequences of such a step. No, I'm not campaigning "to trail in the wake of civilized nations" and know very well that even in the Ukraine mobile subscribers for incoming no longer pay. But elsewhere in the press appears more and more alarming publications on this subject, and the experience of neighboring Ukraine is still difficult to call-to-one. Incidentally, the same Ukrainian, not all subscribers enjoy free incoming, though this fee and masked name "value forward".

About free cakes

They are known to not happen. A popular misconception: "here to take the law on free calls, and all come complete happiness: everything will remain the same, only pay for the calls will not have to." Alas - not come and stay. You can take any number of laws "good and different, but to make the operator working at a loss will still fail. Many people understand this and suggest a substantial increase in tariffs for mobile outgoing, but even a hypothetical two-fold increase may be insufficient in the case of maintaining "benign" quotations for a wired connection. Not to mention that a two-fold price increase, no mobile network operator will not go out of marketing reasons. Today's models use a mobile phone tends to be the proportion of 55/45 (incoming / outgoing), in the case of "free" incoming value of the possible bias is difficult even to predict. So, all Russian mobile networks together bankrupt? Of course not: just radically change the funding structure.

Pull the thread ...

It is obvious that mobile operators have tariff incoming calls from wired networks - other ways of maintaining profitability is not there. Fixed-line operators just like this "outrage" will not be tolerated and naturally shift the new costs to its subscribers. Ie necessarily a sharp increase in rates for outgoing calls, at least - Outgoing calls to mobile phones. Accordingly, a fixed monthly payment fixed phones owners will have to say goodbye. Another problem - calls on the direct number of mobile networks. To implement an automatic "recognition" supplies a direct number and the correct chargeable signalers MGTS have to work hard, but it still remains unresolved financial issues with respect to the subscriber wired network: in many cases, the caller does not know about the affiliation of a direct number, and hence can not know in advance how much to pay for the call. Part of the problem can be solved by using the federal "twins" direct numbers, as did, for example, the operator Kyivstar in Ukraine: when calling on the federal mobile number for the call pays the caller, while calling on the line - the owner of a direct number, which included, as it were redirected from Direct numbers to the federal. To avoid conflicts with the law is charged is not an incoming call, as it were diverted to the federal number.And as payment for the "redirection" is not subject to the law on free incoming calls: a bit difficult technically, but perfectly legally.

Phone for selfish?

In the most advantageous position are the owners of federal mobile numbers, which as a result do not pay for incoming calls at all. True, the outgoing inevitably rise, but hardly twice. Abroad, the problem is quite acute: people prefer to give their mobile numbers as contact numbers, and calling them often pay for such a conversation is more expensive than long distance. Things get even more interesting if the owner of mobile handset is in another country (roaming): if calling the federal number will be paying more, and international communication, and learns about it only after receiving the invoice. In general, everyone will have to change their habits and start thinking before each call. Not to mention the entire collection of technical problems that will face all operators.

Comments from first-hand

Charles Britton, co-director of the Consumers' Association of Australia: "This market is completely opaque to the consumer. The majority has no idea how expensive calls from fixed to mobile. The owner of a mobile phone does not pay for incoming, but because mobile operators are not interested in reducing these costs - they do not affect the competitiveness and attractiveness of a marketing company. " Officials abroad rightly point to the complexity of the administrative management of such issues: the still numerous laws and regulations govern the relationship with the state and consumers of individual fixed and mobile communications. CDR "butt" for calls from fixed to mobile has remained outside the attention of state authorities. And, we would add: The above butt in many countries was the same "black hole" into which billions of dollars annually fail fees for calls from fixed phones to mobiles. On the other hand, governments can take all sorts of laws, but someone pay for the free incoming is still necessary.