Russian antimonopoly regulators follow through on threat to investigate phone operators for domestic roaming fees
Source: Federal Antimonopoly Service
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has charged the country’s four largest mobile phone operators (VimpelCom’s Beeline, MTS, Megafon, and T2 Mobile’s Tele2) with establishing and maintaining monopolistically high national roaming prices — a violation of Russia’s federal law on the protection of competition.
Regulators will review the charges against the four companies in two commission hearings, examining VimpelCom and Megafon on September 26 and MTS and TS Mobile on September 29.
In mid-July, the Federal Antimonopoly Service effectively ordered Russia’s largest phone operators to eliminate domestic roaming charges by August.