14 December 2004 Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS) has started to provide IP-telephony services, to the delight of many of his more than four million subscribers. Rejoice for long: after exactly nine days after this remarkable event became known to the resignation of Mikhail Smirnov, who held the post of general director of MGTS since the summer of 2003. A few days later about the new service has disappeared from the Internet site of MGTS on a dedicated phone answering machine says "service temporarily not available", and tariffs MGTS to international and domestic long-distance IP-connection is now only see visitors Mobile-Review. To paraphrase a classic: "Who is to blame and that done?"