July 15, 2015 at 14:59Megafon CEO insists on introducing uniform rules for regulating mobile operators and Internet messengers
Yesterday, July 14, MegaFon ’s CEO Ivan Tavrin said in an interview with Russia 24 that mobile instant messengers, such as WhatsApp , Viber or Skype , work in the gray zone outside the regulation adopted by the television industry - they can be used by terrorists and spam organizers newsletters.
According to him, Russian operators have invested in IT solutions that allow you to fight spam, and he "all went to Viber, WhatsApp and all kinds of instant messengers." Tavrin believes the industry needs change. In particular, he insists on the introduction of uniform rules for regulating SMS services of operators and Internet messengers. Regulation of such services is being discussed today.legislators and all kinds of bodies in the USA and European countries - Great Britain and France, Tavrin recalled.
“The growing activity of imposed services in the world and in Russia negatively affects the income of mobile operators from traditional services (voice and SMS),” analysts at J'son & Partners Consulting say .
Overlaid Services ( OTT - Over The Top Services) are services provided by third-party companies based on carrier data networks.
OTT services do not consider mobile operators as potential partners, but “only as a means of delivery,” Tavrin complains: “When they look at us as those who, in order for them to work, invest tens of billions of dollars, yuan, euros rubles (depending on the country), then this conversation will be more constructive. Today, we are not conducting these conversations, unfortunately. ” MTS
representative Dmitry Solodovnikov notes that OTT services do not have to spend a lot of money on increasing network bandwidth, maintaining them, and developing new technologies. They simply use the networks of telecom operators to provide their services.
He sees the solution to the problem by sharing revenue with OTT operators or creating special tariffs that take into account the user's consumption profile, including, for example, the traffic of OTT players.
According to Juniper Research , the total loss of mobile operators from OTT services in the world last year amounted to about $ 14 billion. And according to Ovum , the total lost revenue of mobile and fixed-line operators from 2012 to 2020 alone from VoIP services will reach $ 479 billion, or 6.9% of the global voice services market.
Representative of VimpelComAnna Aybasheva notes that it is important not to deprive users of instant messengers, but, on the contrary, to make their use more convenient. Members messengers - are users of smartphones and batch tariff plans, it is an indicator of the average bill per subscriber by the operator of the service does not suffer, the loyalty of the customers at a healthy partnership and OTT operators will be higher transmit "Vedomosti".
Partnerships and joint projects with OTT services will be more beneficial for operators and subscribers than prohibitive measures or excessive regulation, said Tele2 spokesman Konstantin Prokshin.
Last year, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) came up with a proposal to give operators the right to prioritize different types of traffic, as well as differentiate tariffs. But industry representatives did not support this proposal.
According to him, Russian operators have invested in IT solutions that allow you to fight spam, and he "all went to Viber, WhatsApp and all kinds of instant messengers." Tavrin believes the industry needs change. In particular, he insists on the introduction of uniform rules for regulating SMS services of operators and Internet messengers. Regulation of such services is being discussed today.legislators and all kinds of bodies in the USA and European countries - Great Britain and France, Tavrin recalled.
“The growing activity of imposed services in the world and in Russia negatively affects the income of mobile operators from traditional services (voice and SMS),” analysts at J'son & Partners Consulting say .
Overlaid Services ( OTT - Over The Top Services) are services provided by third-party companies based on carrier data networks.
OTT services do not consider mobile operators as potential partners, but “only as a means of delivery,” Tavrin complains: “When they look at us as those who, in order for them to work, invest tens of billions of dollars, yuan, euros rubles (depending on the country), then this conversation will be more constructive. Today, we are not conducting these conversations, unfortunately. ” MTS
representative Dmitry Solodovnikov notes that OTT services do not have to spend a lot of money on increasing network bandwidth, maintaining them, and developing new technologies. They simply use the networks of telecom operators to provide their services.
He sees the solution to the problem by sharing revenue with OTT operators or creating special tariffs that take into account the user's consumption profile, including, for example, the traffic of OTT players.
According to Juniper Research , the total loss of mobile operators from OTT services in the world last year amounted to about $ 14 billion. And according to Ovum , the total lost revenue of mobile and fixed-line operators from 2012 to 2020 alone from VoIP services will reach $ 479 billion, or 6.9% of the global voice services market.
Representative of VimpelComAnna Aybasheva notes that it is important not to deprive users of instant messengers, but, on the contrary, to make their use more convenient. Members messengers - are users of smartphones and batch tariff plans, it is an indicator of the average bill per subscriber by the operator of the service does not suffer, the loyalty of the customers at a healthy partnership and OTT operators will be higher transmit "Vedomosti".
Partnerships and joint projects with OTT services will be more beneficial for operators and subscribers than prohibitive measures or excessive regulation, said Tele2 spokesman Konstantin Prokshin.
Last year, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) came up with a proposal to give operators the right to prioritize different types of traffic, as well as differentiate tariffs. But industry representatives did not support this proposal.