The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of Russia has prepared a bill on mandatory labeling of calls to protect against spam. This was announced by Dmitry Tur, director of the department of state regulation of the telecommunications market of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation. CNews.
“A unified database will be created where operators can change call tags. This interaction will have to take place according to already existing market principles,” said the head of the department.
Tur explained that the bill proposes to label all calls from legal entities as well as mass calls. It seems that when a call comes from an organization, the smartphone owner will see information about the purpose of the call. The government will determine the exact criteria for this decision.
The measure is proposed because, according to a study by the Stolypin Institute, Russian businesses lose more than 236 billion rubles on calls from foreign numbers because customers abandon calls for fear of spam.
Head of Department of the Ministry of Digital Development added that they plan to make the service free for all subscribers. In this case, legal entities will need to provide information about their company to the telecom operator.
Ministry of Digital Development at the beginning of October supplied A draft federal law plans to require mobile carriers to begin blocking anonymous spam calls if the companies fail to disclose information about the purpose of the call.
Previously it became clearIt was stated that unmarked searches caused a loss of 236 billion rubles to the Russian business world.
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Source: Gazeta
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