Plans to limit roaming charges in Eurasian Economic Union in 2016-2018

09:32, 13 May 2015

MINSK. KAZINFORM - There are plans to limit roaming charges in the Eurasian Economic Union in 2016-2018, BelTA learned from Alexander Kurilchik, Deputy Director of the Antimonopoly Regulation Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission, at the expanded participation session of the Industry, Fuel and Energy Complex, Transport and Communications Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus and the Economic Policy Commission, on 12 May.

"A draft resolution will be prepared to set the maximum price for roaming services for the Eurasian Economic Union member states. We have already set up the working group to take care of the matter," noted Alexander Kurilchik.

The official stressed that the draft resolution will set top prices for international roaming charges in 2016-2018 with their consequent nullification in the Eurasian Economic Union member states.

Alexander Kurilchik also spoke about the costs of passenger transportation by air and by rail. In his words, the Commission is also looking into the problem. "At present it is more expensive to travel from Moscow to Minsk by rail than by air. It is abnormal. If we talk about the air transportation market, prices are low if competition is high and prices are high if competition is virtually non-existent. For instance, one carrier services Minsk-Frankfurt flights and three carriers offer flights between Moscow and Frankfurt. And prices for those flights are four to ten times lower. We have created a working group to promote competition on the market of air and railway transportation and carried out some research in 2014. We are now actively taking care of the matter and will work to suppress similar violations," he stressed, BelTA reports.

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