Today, July 10, 2018, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill to abolish roaming charges in Russia. The deputies voted for it unanimously.
The draft law is expected to abolish the difference in tariffs for communication services depending on the location of subscribers in a particular constituent entity of the Russian Federation. It introduced the lower house of Parliament deputies from “Fair Russia”. Changes will be made to article 54 of the Federal law “On communications”.
National roaming in the explanatory note authors call “archaic, hindering at the moment development of availability of communication services on the territory of the Russian Federation”.
We are talking about the abolition of national and on-net roaming. One of the provisions of the bill is that payment by the subscriber are not subject to the so-called incoming phone calls, except for overseas telephone calls.