Crimeans have purchased more than 1, 5 million sim cards first, and as long as the only official Russian mobile operator on the Peninsula " K-Telecom ", working under the brand of Win Mobile.

" to date, sold about 1, 5 million cards of the Russian mobile operator, is activated on the Internet about 1 million 100 thousand cards ", said Last news Deputy head of the Crimean Council of Ministers - the Minister of internal policy, information and communication of the Crimea Dmitry Polonsky.

according to him, in the free market is about 800 thousand sim cards Russian mobile operator Win Mobile. Mobile numbers and distributed phones with code " 7 ".

4-th of August of current year has started providing the service in the Crimea under the brand Win Mobile new Russian cellular Operator " K-Telecom ". He highlighted the frequencies used by the company " MTS Ukraine ". However, MTS denied that it was his " daughter " of received frequencies in the Crimea. The authorities of the Republic of hope with the time on the Peninsula will go to Other Russian Mobile operators.

The operator " MTS Ukraine " on the Peninsula has completely stopped working. Other Ukrainian operators - Kyivstar and Life - while continuing to provide service of the Crimean subscribers.

in Crimea the mobile communication service in the majority were distributed among three largest Ukrainian operators: MTS Ukraine " (served 57% of subscribers), Kyivstar (21%) and Life (16%). From the Russian " big three " your SIM card sells in Crimea only " MTS Russia " - with the numbers assigned to the Krasnodar region." Vympelcom " as long as only got numbering capacity in the Crimea." MegaFon " is working on the Peninsula in roaming, though it plans to reduce its cost to domestic level.

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