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NTI: The average increase in mobile communication tariffs will not exceed ten percent in 2023

MOSCOW, February 2 – RIA Novosti. It is unlikely that the average increase in mobile tariffs will exceed 10% by the end of 2023, as they are under the control of the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Skoltech-based NTI Competence Vice President Alexander Sivolobov said. The Center for Wireless Communications and Internet of Things shared its opinion with RIA Novosti.

According to him, the reason for the increase in tariffs was, first of all, inflation, which affected all expenditure items in the budget of the operators. Prices for all kinds of goods and services, including electricity, have also increased in the last year, and the situation with personnel has become more complex. The expert believes that this is why operators are forced to raise prices.

“As a rule, tariff increase is supervised by the FAS, so growth above inflationary expectations may face opposition from this institution and the Ministry of Digital Development. Therefore, although the average tariff increase is unlikely to exceed 10% for individual subscribers,” Sivolobov said, and talked about the situation that could develop until the end of 2023.

Asked whether the increase in mobile communication tariffs has anything to do with the increase in the cost of telecommunications equipment, he emphasized that “equipment is only one of the cost items”. “Of course, the cost of equipment, spare parts and consumables has increased. But there is also a process of downscaling construction and strengthening networks, so this is not the only or leading factor,” Sivolobov said.

In mid-April, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation published methodological recommendations for the progressive indexation of tariffs of telecom operators, taking into account the current level of inflation, which was developed to ensure the development of the Russian economy under sanctions. The validity of the change in the tariffs of the operators is determined by the service in connection with the correspondence of the change in inflation according to the weekly published data of Rosstat. If the level of tariff changes corresponds to inflation as of the last week of the month since the beginning of the year, the change is accepted as justified.

Source: Ria

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