PRESS: Telecom firms say worried about new anti-terrorism costs

MOSCOW, Oct 27 (PRIME) -- Russian connection operators have criticized the Digital Development Ministry’s initiative to expand requirements to antiterrorism protection to all connection facilities that can raise the telecom companies’ expenses, business daily Kommersant reported on Thursday.

The ministry’s draft government ruling was published on October 3 and updates the requirements of a similar document dating back to 2014. It introduces a set of security measures.

According to the daily, mobile operators MTS and VimpelCom, working under the Beeline brand, think that the document spreads the requirements not only to the ministry, the communications service, and their entities, but all the facilities related to their activities, which are the operators’ connection networks.

The operators said that such an expansion is unjustified and should apply only to the facilities that can be used by the ministry for the state needs.

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