How to close the Internet in Russia

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    For the bored reader, I write out the most fried part.

    According to the plans of the Ministry of Communications, a change in the provider market is expected - all operators are divided into “federal telecom operators” and plebeian telecom operators.

    At the same time:

    “simply to telecom operators”, cross-border data transmission is prohibited. Only federal telecom operators should, will and can do this.

    The federal telecom operators themselves are obligated to be present throughout the country, and from year to year the requirements for presence are increasing - by 2014 these are cities with 100k of the population, and by 2018 - from 8k (yes, optics to every polar city). Thus, only Very Very Very Fat Operator can become FOS. And he will have a monopoly on foreign traffic.

    Tariffs for connecting operators are, of course, democratic, regulated by the regulator (which is struggling to restrain the suddenly formed monopolist / monopolists).

    For operators, the obligatoriness of symmetric calculations for piercing is introduced, as well as the obligatoriness of piercing.

    At the moment, the main contender for this position is Rostelecom, which, suddenly, becomes the “uplink of all Russia”.

    Consumer consequences: lack of competition, a fixed “Internet vertical”, fixing the cost of the channel with chances of its gradual growth (indexation due to inflation, etc), the quality of the Internet begins to be determined by Russian postone or two large operators who live on monopoly and quality ... hmm ... provide, according to the results of consideration of the complaint, within 30 days, etc.

    Obviously, in such conditions, it becomes very comfortable isolation of unwanted autonomous systems and individual nodes. If they are in Russia, then the issue is resolved by a method convenient for law enforcement agencies, if it is outside the country, there is a pocket federal military service (federal telecom operator), which will be happy to ban.

    These are the pictures looming ...

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