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The authorities have been actively fighting telephone fraud for several years, the volume of which has increased sharply after the start of a special military operation in Ukraine. A significant volume of such calls comes from the territory of other countries, in particular, from Ukraine, with Russian numbers substituted. In June of this year, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Main Radio Frequency Center" subordinate to Roskomnadzor prohibited telecom operators spain whatsapp resource from letting through calls from numbers not registered in the "Antifraud" system, which is supposed to block calls from substituted numbers. This means that subscribers of operators not connected to this system will not be able to call other subscribers. Russian operators were supposed to start interacting with "Antifraud" by March 1 of this year, but some are still not connected.
of automatically blocking foreign calls to protect subscribers from fraudsters. According to a representative of the agency, subscribers will be given the opportunity to choose whether to accept or block calls from abroad, and whether to allow calls from subscribers from other countries from the contact list.
What will be the consequences?According to Nikolai Metlyuk, there should be no negative consequences for honest customers from the ban: they will be able to buy the virtual PBX service in Russia, not abroad, and the difference in cost should not be significant. Although Metlyuk called this method of fighting fraudsters "tough".
According to Salov, the measure will affect those who use foreign videoconferencing services like Zoom and others. "There is a scenario where you can invite a user to a virtual meeting by calling their phone number. This is done using VoIP telephony, and now calls through such foreign services may not go to Russia," he said. The FSB's decision may also affect people who are on business trips or on vacation abroad - they will not be able to call the public telephone network from abroad.
According to Uchakin from EdgeCenter, the FSB measures may affect companies that have foreign employees and/or offices - they will have to first connect to a VPN gateway in Russia, and then use telephony through it. Also, companies that do not have a central office or their own infrastructure and they host it with hosting providers may face problems, he believes.
However, Anisimov from Rusonics says that the initiative should not have an impact on the market, since “even for small hosters who sell their services as cheaply as possible, such clients are a small part of their revenue.”
At the same time, RUVDS CEO Nikita Tsaplin believes that operators will still have the opportunity to contact the FSB through their own channels to add a specific virtual PBX service to the exception: this implies that the client of such a service is fully identified and is definitely not engaged in anything illegal.
Representatives of the largest operators MTS, MegaFon, VimpelCom (Beeline brand) and T2 RTK Holding (Tele2 brand) declined to comment.
The authorities have been actively fighting telephone fraud for several years, the volume of which has increased sharply after the start of a special military operation in Ukraine. A significant volume of such calls comes from the territory of other countries, in particular, from Ukraine, with Russian numbers substituted. In June of this year, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Main Radio Frequency Center" subordinate to Roskomnadzor prohibited telecom operators spain whatsapp resource from letting through calls from numbers not registered in the "Antifraud" system, which is supposed to block calls from substituted numbers. This means that subscribers of operators not connected to this system will not be able to call other subscribers. Russian operators were supposed to start interacting with "Antifraud" by March 1 of this year, but some are still not connected.
of automatically blocking foreign calls to protect subscribers from fraudsters. According to a representative of the agency, subscribers will be given the opportunity to choose whether to accept or block calls from abroad, and whether to allow calls from subscribers from other countries from the contact list.
What will be the consequences?According to Nikolai Metlyuk, there should be no negative consequences for honest customers from the ban: they will be able to buy the virtual PBX service in Russia, not abroad, and the difference in cost should not be significant. Although Metlyuk called this method of fighting fraudsters "tough".
According to Salov, the measure will affect those who use foreign videoconferencing services like Zoom and others. "There is a scenario where you can invite a user to a virtual meeting by calling their phone number. This is done using VoIP telephony, and now calls through such foreign services may not go to Russia," he said. The FSB's decision may also affect people who are on business trips or on vacation abroad - they will not be able to call the public telephone network from abroad.
According to Uchakin from EdgeCenter, the FSB measures may affect companies that have foreign employees and/or offices - they will have to first connect to a VPN gateway in Russia, and then use telephony through it. Also, companies that do not have a central office or their own infrastructure and they host it with hosting providers may face problems, he believes.
However, Anisimov from Rusonics says that the initiative should not have an impact on the market, since “even for small hosters who sell their services as cheaply as possible, such clients are a small part of their revenue.”
At the same time, RUVDS CEO Nikita Tsaplin believes that operators will still have the opportunity to contact the FSB through their own channels to add a specific virtual PBX service to the exception: this implies that the client of such a service is fully identified and is definitely not engaged in anything illegal.
Representatives of the largest operators MTS, MegaFon, VimpelCom (Beeline brand) and T2 RTK Holding (Tele2 brand) declined to comment.