Payphones in Russia want to complement the Ministry of Emergency Situations

Payphone in the village of Mitinskaya (Dmitrov rural settlement of Shatursky district). Photo: Novik

On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation dated June 7, 2018 No. Pr-969, the Ministry of Communications prepared a bill on equipping payphones in the Russian Federation with special emergency warning devices. On February 18, 2019, the draft law amending the Law on Communications was published on the Federal Portal of Draft Normative Legal Acts.

The bottom line is that now practically no one is using payphones, and very big money is being allocated for their support from the so-called “universal service reserve”. This is a financial fund where all telecom operators in Russia are required to transfer 1.2% of revenue. according to the assessmentex-Minister of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov: "Each caller, each using the machine costs the budget 35,000 rubles.", The assessment was made in December 2012. Perhaps the amount has increased since then.

The money is very big. Some experts believe that equipping with sirens is a convenient reason to save pay phones, and, therefore, funding that goes to Rossvyaz. The project is also beneficial to equipment suppliers, as Russian-made sirens will be purchased.

The text of the bill proposes the following amendment:

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3) to add the paragraph three of part 2 after the words “operational services” with the words “and the function of alerting the public about the threat of or emergence of an emergency of a natural or man-made nature”
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According to Rossvyaz, at the end of 2018, 147.7 thousand payphones remained in Russia (2.2 thousand of them were in Moscow).

The press service of Rossvyaz reported that they support the expansion of the functionality of payphones. Kommersant’s interlocutor in the FSUE Russian Broadcasting and Alert Networks subordinate to Rossvyaz (responsible for the emergency notification system in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol) says that the FSUE will also oversee the project for re-equipping payphones with audio messaging systems: “Equipment necessary for the project since 2014 it’s already in testing and now works in the region of Siberia and the Far East, ”he said. The structures of FSUE Russian Broadcasting and Alert Networks will be responsible for its production, and it will take six months to enter mass production.

Annunciators on payphones will complement the existing public warning systems.

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