MegaFon introduces electronic monitoring of prisoners in Yakutia and the Jewish Autonomous Region

Since May of this year, the operator MegaFon will provide telematic services within the federal project of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of Russia, "The electronic monitoring of controlled entities" (samples) in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Jewish Autonomous Region. The project aims to provide SAMPLES monitor the movement of prisoners in the application of such punishment, as restricting freedom. The system is a complex electronic devices, which includes an electronic bracelet and monitoring device with a SIM-card, transmitting a signal on the location of the support strap. MegaFon provides telematic services (M2M) in this project in the Far East since the end of 2011. In the Khabarovsk region about 200 are equipped with electronic bracelets operator SIM-cards from January 2012 MegaFon began to provide similar services for the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Irkutsk region, which now involves about 300 electronic bracelet with a SIM-card operator, and from April 2012 - for the Office FPS on the Kamchatka Territory. In May, will expand due to the geography of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Jewish Autonomous Region, and in June, MegaFon will provide these services in the Republic of Buryatia.