My 2 ¢ about telecoms
Once again I discovered (at the most inconvenient moment) that my account at MTS was empty, although polite employees assured me of "full unlimited". I completely agree with numerous habr posts that telecoms are insolent. And all the tops from MTS and others in private conversations complained about how hard it is to do business in a barbaric country, and ARPA is so small.
But pay attention to the financial performance of MTS for the 3rd quarter .
OIBDA (Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization) 50.7%. More than 50 percent percenting! At the same time, it also increased by 11.4% compared to the previous quarter. In dollars.
This business profitability is comparable to selling drugs. Compare let's say with the T-Mobile report for the same period .
Some kind of pathetic 33%. Losers. And in absolute terms, the difference is not so great, given the volume of T-Mobile's business and the territories in which they operate.
And this despite the fact that we have far from the strongest economy in the world. And this year was not at all the most successful. And people’s salary didn’t seem to be growing so much this year, but most likely it was going down quite the opposite, and these figures are also available to anyone interested. And for clear guys from MTS, business is rushing like never before!
Against the background of all these figures, it is clear that there is a cartel conspiracy between the operators of the "Big Three", it is clear that state regulators do not regulate anything.
It is clear that there are little money for good lawyers, PR managers and other well-paid corporate dogs that will protect these business practices to the last.
At the same time, for a long time already, it has been deceiving nobody about the costs of expanding and developing a business, because these effective managers do not introduce anything new, no new technologies, except Jesuit billing and tariff policy.
The way out, it seems to me, should be in the mass filing of complaints from subscribers to state regulators and courts.
In order for these complaints to be widespread, you can probably create some sites where the procedures for submitting documents have been explained and made as easy as possible for ordinary people.
This logic worked in the West when there was a struggle with the Telecom monopolists there. Most likely, it should work for us too. The logic is simple - to create conditions under which it is impossible to NOT notice the number of complaints.
PS In contrast, I remember my life as CDMA network subscribers in the United States. For 4 years of use 1. I never paid more than $ 35 per month, fixed 2. I never even found out how many minutes or megabytes I spent there. Both “intercity” and paid roaming were canceled there under the pressure of state regulators by the way. And in the EU the same thing.
But if you look at the history (AT&T and others), you have achieved this by putting pressure on state control mechanisms. There is no other way. By conscience, people receiving OIBDA> 50% cannot have any conscience.
But pay attention to the financial performance of MTS for the 3rd quarter .
OIBDA (Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization) 50.7%. More than 50 percent percenting! At the same time, it also increased by 11.4% compared to the previous quarter. In dollars.
This business profitability is comparable to selling drugs. Compare let's say with the T-Mobile report for the same period .
Some kind of pathetic 33%. Losers. And in absolute terms, the difference is not so great, given the volume of T-Mobile's business and the territories in which they operate.
And this despite the fact that we have far from the strongest economy in the world. And this year was not at all the most successful. And people’s salary didn’t seem to be growing so much this year, but most likely it was going down quite the opposite, and these figures are also available to anyone interested. And for clear guys from MTS, business is rushing like never before!
Against the background of all these figures, it is clear that there is a cartel conspiracy between the operators of the "Big Three", it is clear that state regulators do not regulate anything.
It is clear that there are little money for good lawyers, PR managers and other well-paid corporate dogs that will protect these business practices to the last.
At the same time, for a long time already, it has been deceiving nobody about the costs of expanding and developing a business, because these effective managers do not introduce anything new, no new technologies, except Jesuit billing and tariff policy.
The way out, it seems to me, should be in the mass filing of complaints from subscribers to state regulators and courts.
In order for these complaints to be widespread, you can probably create some sites where the procedures for submitting documents have been explained and made as easy as possible for ordinary people.
This logic worked in the West when there was a struggle with the Telecom monopolists there. Most likely, it should work for us too. The logic is simple - to create conditions under which it is impossible to NOT notice the number of complaints.
PS In contrast, I remember my life as CDMA network subscribers in the United States. For 4 years of use 1. I never paid more than $ 35 per month, fixed 2. I never even found out how many minutes or megabytes I spent there. Both “intercity” and paid roaming were canceled there under the pressure of state regulators by the way. And in the EU the same thing.
But if you look at the history (AT&T and others), you have achieved this by putting pressure on state control mechanisms. There is no other way. By conscience, people receiving OIBDA> 50% cannot have any conscience.