To use the service, you must confirm your agreement with the user rules on the site [DLMURL] https://mobilante.net/ [/ DLMURL] and enter the mobile phone number of the subscriber of interest in the special field. The service will be provided free of charge until November 15, the website says. Now from one IP address you can send two requests per day. MTS has already closed access to information about its subscribers.
Runet users tested the service and got conflicting results . Some argue that the service works correctly and correctly determines the location of the subscriber. Others said the service was unable to process their requests. .
On the main page of the portal it is said that “This request does not require approval from the owner of the device. However, the user’s rules, which the site visitor must agree before sending the request, stipulate that“ the user must enter only the data of his subscriber terminal and the number allocated only to him personally by the telecom operator. "The rules also say that" the user does not have the right to enter personal data of third parties, as well as data that is not his data or the data of a person whose consent the user does not have such data. "
“The cell phone is registered in the local network so that the network“ knows ”where to send the call. Even when there is no call, routing works,” explained Nikolai Fedotov, chief analyst at InfoWatch. According to him, any telephone network of any operator in any country has information on where to route a call or SMS to any phone number. Even when the phone is turned off, the network remembers where it was last registered. “It is impossible to hide this information, otherwise the communication between the operators will not work,” Fedotov says. “In principle, the circulation of such information can be limited to the limits of communication operators. But there are thousands of operators in the world, it is enough that only one of them disagrees or cannot keep a secret. "
The issue of the legitimacy of such a service has not been legally regulated, Nikolai Fedotov added. "Such fundamentally new services first appear, enter into circulation, then the threats associated with them become clear; and only after that, lawmakers take up regulation if necessary," he explained.
MTS representative Valeria Kuzmenko explained that this service is connected to one of the African mobile operators, which is a violation of inter-operator roaming agreements. "MTS carried out operational work and closed access to information about its subscribers - it is impossible to determine the location of the MTS subscriber at the address where this service is registered," she said.
The VimpelCom press service said that the location of the user can be determined if he independently launches completely legal programs on his phone and becomes visible to other users, or if third parties have access to the switchboards of operators, but this is not possible. Operators do not offer such services, since this contradicts the Law "On Communications" and threatens with the deprivation of a license, the press service of the operator noted. VimpelCom representative Evgenia Chistova suggested that this service is used to collect information about live telephone numbers. “It is likely that in the future to use them for spamming or spreading viruses,” she explained.
The press service of MegaFon refrained from commenting.
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