Antitrust finds MTS guilty of violating law with misleading ads

MOSCOW, May 31 (PRIME) -- The Federal Antimonopoly Service has found Russia’s biggest mobile operator MTS guilty of violating the law on advertising and warned it to stop distributing an untruthful promotion of its tariff Tarifishche, an authority spokesperson said on Friday.

The service’s commission studied the tariff’s advertisements on various means of distribution in August–November 2018 and concluded that the offer created an image of being active on the whole territory of the country without any exception.

The advertisements did not contain important information that the tariff was valid only in the operator’s coverage zone.

Materials are used to open an administrative case in order to impose a fine, which can be from 100,000 to 500,000 rubles.

(65.0583 rubles – U.S. $1)

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