Operator “Rostelecom” to limit the speed of unlimited home Internet up to 64 Kbps after the user downloads more than 1 TB of data per month. The changes will take effect from 1 July 2017.
As reported by Vc with reference to the public offer of the operator, a restriction is introduced in macro-regional branch “Center” OJSC “Rostelecom”. It includes Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as 14 branches which are located in the Bryansk, Kostroma, Vladimir, Belgorod, Voronezh, Kaluga, Ryazan, Kursk, Lipetsk, Orel, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver and Tula regions.
The same news was published on the website of “Rostelecom” for the city of Kimry in the Tver region.
The representatives of “Rostelecom” said that users “should not feel” changes. The company refused to comment on which regions introduced new rules and what they are connected to.
Experts assume that the bandwidth limits associated with the entry into force of the “Law of Spring”. Adopted in 2016, it obliges ISPs to store information about the facts of the exchange of user data up to one year, and operators — up to 3 years. The traffic need to be kept up to six months.
Jun 20, Director of strategic projects of the research Institute Internet Irina Levova said that some providers may refuse from unlimited tariffs home Internet because of the “Spring law”.
“I’ve seen mailing some regional operators that are planning tariff changes and talking about what is supposed to be billing for megabytes, gigabytes, but not unlimited, in connection with what to write all this, it is necessary to limit the traffic to allow it to fit”, she said.
“Spring law” comes into force from 1 July 2018, the precise list of data types that should keep providers has not yet been determined. At the beginning of 2017 all major Russian mobile operators have abandoned unlimited plans on the Internet, although such proposals appeared in all of them only in 2016.
