Kulbak economist: the state and companies will come to a compromise on gray SIM cards conversation with “Lenta.ru” that from December 1, several million corporate numbers of Russians will be disconnected.
Earlier, Kommersant reported with reference to the general director of TMT Consulting Konstantin Ankilov that 16 million corporate mobile numbers may be disconnected from communication services due to violations of the Law “On Communications”. According to the amendments of December 2020, developed to combat gray SIM cards, corporate subscribers are required to enter information about end users of SIM cards into the Unified Identification and Authentication System (ESIA) on the State Services portal.
According to Kulbaki, the amendments to the Law “On Communications” indicate a mismatch between the actions of the state aimed at de-anonymizing market participants and companies for which it is not decisive. “It is important for corporate companies that the employee is constantly in touch, so that he cannot say that he has run out of money on the phone, so that you can make sure that he is constantly acting in the interests of the company, that his phone is in the corporate database. At the same time, it turns out that from the point of view of the state, this phone remains anonymous, because formally it is registered with the company. The state does not like this, of course, “the economist explained the conflict of interests.
Kulbaka believes that it will not be necessary to remove corporate mobile numbers, since the process of their registration has already begun. “Apparently, a compromise will now be found, corporate numbers will not be removed, de-anonymization will be removed, that is, the state will know who is calling from a particular number, but it will still be corporate and paid for by the company,” the analyst concluded.