Antitrust: MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2 to cancel traffic sharing fee

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (PRIME) -- Russian mobile operators MegaFon, VimpelCom, working as Beeline, and T2 RTK Holding, working as Tele2, have decided to cancel payment for Internet traffic sharing, the Federal Antimonopoly Service said on Monday in a Telegram post.

“Since October 23 MegaFon has abolished payment for sharing of Internet traffic on all tariffs…From November 22 Tele2 will cancel the fee for new subscribers, and the charges will be zeroed for all its subscribers from December 19. Beeline will cancel the payment on all its tariffs with limited data packages till December 1,” the watchdog said.

MegaFon clients may have technical malfunctioning during a month because of the cancellation of tariffs of data sharing.

The regulator said it decided to extend the period to fulfil its order for the companies.

The authority also said that MTS had informed the service of the absence in its actions of charging a fee for Internet traffic sharing any violation of the subscribers’ interests.

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