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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:20 am
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Vladimir Mesropyan, Director of Government Relations at MegaFon, noted that the company highly appreciates the work of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development in creating the first large-scale industry document in many years, which provides all market participants with target guidelines and an understanding of the rules of the game for the long term.
mportant social function of providing communication between people across the country, but also faces a large-scale challenge to create a technological foundation for indonesia whatsapp resource the digitalization of economic sectors and the social sphere. Therefore, it is very important for us that the industry regulator, through the strategy for the development of the communications industry, pays attention to all key issues. Among them are the allocation of additional frequency resources and flexible spectrum management for the development of wireless communication technologies, the development and implementation of competitive domestic equipment and software for it, ensuring comfortable legal and economic conditions for the creation of communications and related infrastructure, the development of industry science and human resources," said Vladimir Mesropyan.

According to him, an important feature of the document was that when it was created, the Ministry of Digital Development involved industry representatives in the discussion and heard their position: “It knows where we are experiencing difficulties, and where we feel confident today.”

The MTS press service recalled that the current Russian legislation was written "in a different era, when technical requirements were the basis of regulation." "New technologies, services and services are emerging that require a rethinking of the approach to regulation. And the strategy is a global reform of industry regulation. It should determine where the industry is moving, what challenges it faces. Including identifying the results that the industry should achieve as a result of implementing the strategy," the MTS press service said in a statement.

The company noted that it highly appreciates the role of the Ministry of Digital Development in consolidating both industry participants and government bodies.

"We appreciate the openness of the ministry's team to dialogue and their willingness to accept expectations and criticism from the industry. MTS experts were involved in developing the strategy. We expect that at the stage of its further discussion, the initiatives and concerns of the business, which are not yet fully reflected in the existing document, will be comprehensively assessed. We hope that thanks to the participation of the expert team of the Ministry of Digital Development, these aspirations will be heard and realized," the MTS press service emphasizes.

What do the experts think?

Sergey Polovnikov, head of the Content Review information and analytical agency, who participated in the work on the strategy project, told ComNews that the tasks set in the strategy are difficult to accomplish, but he called this a plus of the document. "If you do not set yourself high big tasks, you will have to be content with little. Because of this, everything looks a little magical. A very large part of the document is devoted to where we are, and a smaller part - to where we should move. But this is normal, because before moving, we need to understand where we are coming from and what problems there are," Sergey Polovnikov noted.