SIM cards come out of the shadow

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The Ministry of Digital Science has proposed a new way to combat illegal trade in subscriber identification modules

According to the initiative of the ministry, corporate SIM-cards will not work until the authenticity of their owners is confirmed on "State Services". For this, telecom operators will be required to provide access to the portal to users with non-activated identifiers free of charge.

ONLY UNDER ITS NAME

After issuing a SIM card to an employee, the employer will have to transfer information about him as a user to the telecom operator. Such requirements are contained in decree government prepared by the Ministry of Finance. After registering on the public services portal, the corporate employee will have to enter his new phone number in the appropriate field, indicating the employer and the telecommunications company. The ministry will transfer this data to the operator, who will compare it with what was previously received from the employer. If everything is confirmed, the employee gets access to communication services.

The press service of the Ministry of Digital Affairs of RSpectr said that

in Russia, thousands of citizens become victims of fraudsters who use corporate SIM cards registered to other people's passport data​

Press service, Ministry of Digital Science:

- The proposed changes clarify that the transition of a subscriber to the portal of public services in order to confirm the account is not a provision of service. The innovations will allow operators to notify customers about the need to confirm their data on the resource, which also applies to the provision of communication services.

OPERATORS FOR

The press service of "Beeline" RSpectr said that they support the initiative of the Ministry of digitalization. According to the operator, the proposed measure will create new opportunities for the verification of SIM-cards of users on the portal of public services. Beeline believes that in order to further improve the customer experience, it is important to expand the list of resources within the framework of technical traffic.

Press service, Beeline:

- In particular, it is necessary to give access to the websites and applications of telecom operators (to the sections with information about activating the SIM card) and banking services that allow you to register an account on "State Services".

Moreover, the operator is sure that

It is necessary to include technical traffic not only in the rules for the provision of data transmission services, but also in telephone services in terms of voice calls and SMS messages directed to call centers​

The Tele2 press service also believes that the proposed measure is useful. It will allow a corporate client to receive an SMS or access to "State Services" and carry out the necessary registration of a SIM-card even before the operator starts rendering services to him. This fulfills the requirement of FZ-533 regarding the mandatory entry of information about corporate clients into the state information system.

TRANSITION PERIOD FOR WHITE

TelecomDaily CEO Denis Kuskov believes that the initiative of the Ministry of Digital Industry is quite understandable and expedient. Until now, SIM cards could be purchased without showing a passport: at train stations, markets, etc. People use this and buy "goods" for years to come, D. Kuskov told RSpectr.

Denis Kuskov, TelecomDaily:

- At the moment, according to TelecomDaily, at least 11 million SIM cards are gray. In order to authorize them, operators need to carry out significant work, which obviously will not be limited to one year.

The expert clarified that although the innovation of the Ministry of Digital Technologies will improve this process, it will not resolve the issue with millions of left-hand SIM cards.

Konstantin Ankilov, Managing Partner of TMT Consulting, noted in an interview with RSpectr that the government is consistently fighting against gray SIM cards, the new initiative will become an additional tool in this process.

Binding a SIM card to a profile on "Gosuslug" allows you to solve the widespread problem of issuing duplicate SIM cards to fraudsters, Dmitry Kuznetsov, director of methodology and standardization at Positive Technologies, told RSpectr. According to him, when implementing such schemes, attackers come to the communication salon with a fake power of attorney or simply agree with his employee to issue an analogue of a SIM card.

Dmitry Kuznetsov, PositiveTechnologies:

- It would be correct to leave it blocked until the subscriber confirms his identity by logging into "Gosuslugi" from the device into which such a duplicate is inserted. The implementation of this idea will require telecom operators to very carefully configure the services that should be available to a device with an unactivated SIM card.

Andrey Vernikov, head of the investment analysis and training department at UNIVER Capital, told RSpectr that he considers the fight against gray SIM-cards in our country to be the right vector. “The state is obliged to protect all taxpayers. Binding a SIM card to a specific person knocks the ground out from under the feet of gray call centers, temporary SIM card services, ”he said. According to the expert, the governments of many countries are engaged in this. For example,

In Kazakhstan, the SIM card is tied to the person's TIN and the phone's IMEI, which immediately cuts off fraudulent calls​

A. Vernikov clarified that ultimately these measures are aimed at increasing confidence in digital services. After all, now the smartphone is gradually becoming a "digital passport". However, the UNIVER Capital expert noted that one should not go too far in the fight against left-hand SIM cards.

Andrey Vernikov, UNIVER Capital Investment Company:

- We need a transitional period, because there are many gray SIM-cards, for example, in Crimea, where the main Russian operators do not operate. Also, illegal identifiers are in large numbers in monitoring and security systems. It takes time to gradually replace them with white ones.

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[Частный детектив. Армения. Ереван.]

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