The Ministry of Communications agreed to postpone the introduction of part of the norms of the "Spring Law"

Recently, the Ministry of Communications sent the government a list of measures to support the IT and telecom sectors during the pandemic, reports “Kommersant“. In particular, it is proposed to postpone for a year some norms of the “Spring Law”. We are talking about the requirement to store subscriber data and increase capacity by 15% annually.

In addition, it is proposed to exclude video traffic from the calculation of capacity, since its volume increased during self-isolation.

Note that the operators estimated the costs of implementing the “Spring Law” at 40-50 billion rubles each for five years. They also count on the introduction of “tax holidays”, as existing networks need to be expanded and modernized.

Separately, it is proposed to launch a program of concessional lending to IT companies and industries. This applies to those companies that produce domestic IT-solutions. It is also proposed to give grants to institutes for the development of developers of software solutions, as well as subsidize the demand for their products.

At the moment, a decision on measures has not yet been taken, because it is difficult to predict what will be implemented and what will not.

The Ministry of Communications agreed to postpone the introduction of part of the norms of the “Spring Law”

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