Russia gets free incoming mobile calls

Indian mobile customers have had this privilege since a long time. Now, Russian mobile customers would be able to receive the incoming calls for free. This would be possible after a change to the telecommunications law signed by President Vladimir Putin as per information coming out of Kremlin.

For now, most of the mobile customers in the country pay for the calls they receive under the terms of the contract with their operator. This results in many subscribers avoiding picking up the calls coming from unknown numbers leading to possible losses in businesses and personal issues.

This also means that the customers are no longer able to receive calls if they run out of credit on their mobile phones. The changes would be applicable from July 1 but might not be valid if the calls come from one region to another or from abroad.

Russia has more than 125.8 million mobile customers as per statistics revealed by Russian consultant firm ACM.