The bill on "mobile slavery" to consider the government

We already wrote that Russia could be lifted so-called "mobile slavery": the opportunity to change the operator with the phone number. Now there's a chance that such times, in fact, come: the Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov sent to the Government of the bill. Nikiforov wrote in his microblog Twitter: "Signed and sent to the Russian government bill amending the law" On communications "for number portability between operators." In accordance with these amendments, the Russian operator's subscribers will be able to change the numbers with preservation, the law can begin to act in 2013 - 2014 year. This service is free of charge and must be authorized by the State is not required. Shift operator with the preservation of subscriber numbers, according to these amendments would provide telecommunications companies themselves, and, within three days. All associated costs will fall on the operators and, therefore, they have repeatedly warned that this could lead to higher prices for communications. When the government tabled the bill is a provision to transfer numbers in the local fixed-line networks.