The President instructed the government and the FSB to develop their projects before November 1,
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Pursuant to the law of Spring will require new capacities in data centers, but their size depends on the regulations of the government
Evgeny Reasonable / Vedomosti
By-laws to the amendments of Spring, the appearance which the market participants were expecting at the beginning of November, still not ready. About this “Vedomosti” told two profile official. Information about such documents no of operators say their employees. On the official portal of legal information, also no information about the development of such regulations no. According to the staff of one of the operators, not even conducted the design documents.
Under the anti-terror amendments, initiated by Deputy Irina Yarovaya and Senator Viktor Ozerov, from July 1, 2018, the Russian Telecom operators and Internet service providers will be required up to six months (the exact period will be referred to as the government) to store all traffic of clients emails, files, conversations, history, Internet requests, and information about the transmission of information – three years. The costs of telecommunication companies on storage traffic will grow by 2.2 trillion rubles., wrote to the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko heads a cell of the “big four” – MTS, “Megaphone”, “Vympelcom” and Tele2.
Cancellation is not considered
Against the law Spring and Ozerov were not only large operators, but also social activists. Petition for the abolition of the law posted on the website “Russian public initiative”, in August, gained 100,000 signatures. Open government was supposed to review it for two months, but never did.
The President signed the law Spring at the beginning of July – and instructed the government and the FSB to 1 November 2016 to prepare draft regulations that would minimize the risks associated with the application of the law. Particular attention should be paid to regulations that will require significant financial resources and the modernization of equipment operators and service providers, bearing in mind the need to use domestic equipment, it was said in behalf of Putin. Agencies were also to clarify the steps in the application of these standards. Market participants said that in fact the bylaws must establish the time and place of storing information, and who should keep it. Responsible for the execution of orders named Director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The Ministry of industry and trade jointly with the Ministry of communications until September 1, had to submit proposals on the costs of the organization of domestic production of Russian hardware and software for storing and processing information.
With MegaFon regulations was not discussed, their development is not known, says the representative of the operator Julia Dorokhin. According to her, it is difficult to discuss regulatory options, until they have identified opportunities, the timing and size of expenses for production of domestic equipment and the establishment of the Russian software required to store and process this data. The representative of “VimpelCom” added to this, only that the company had not seen the draft acts on the website regulation.gov.ru where are all laid out the bills. Representatives of MTS and “T2 RTK holding” (Tele2) declined to comment.
Than later there will be regulations, then the operators will know exactly how to prepare for the implementation of the law, says the source, “Vedomosti” one of the operators, and this can pose a threat to timely implementation of the law, he said. He remembers that similar almost to the deadline was not clear how and where the database will be stored on the transferred rooms at introduction in Russia of the principle of conservation for its subscriber numbers when switching from one operator to another (MNP). Operators were preparing for the implementation of the law at the last moment and the first transfers of numbers between networks passed with failures, he recalls. Employee of another operator adds that telecommunications companies need time to test the equipment before the law comes into force. Therefore, any delay threatens the expected start of work.
The representative of the Ministry told “Vedomosti” that his Department for its part the work performed. Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov recently told journalists that the Ministry together with mobile operators “worked” technical specification, which identifies the needs of operators. This document is submitted to the Ministry of industry and trade, and the Agency is now discussing it with potential manufacturers of equipment that may be required for data storage on the package Spring.
Representatives of FSB and the Ministry of industry and trade did not answer the questions of “Vedomosti”. So did the press-Secretary of Prime Minister Natalia Timakova, President Dmitry Peskov.
