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On March 18, 2024, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced at a meeting of the regional government that he had reached an agreement with the head of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, on introducing inter-operator roaming in the border areas of this region. "We agreed that the towers would simultaneously receive and work on all telecom operators at once," said Vyacheslav Gladkov.
of Digital Development of the afghanistan whatsapp number database Belgorod Region, Sergei Chetverikov, said that inter-operator roaming will start working in the region on March 19, or more precisely, "throughout the border area, in Belgorod and the Yakovlevsky District." However, closer to the evening of March 19, a representative of one of the "big four" mobile operators, on condition of anonymity, told a ComNews correspondent that roaming is not working yet.

ComNews editorial staff sent a request to the Ministry of Digital Development of the Belgorod Region to clarify the situation with the introduction of inter-operator roaming. On March 22, 2024, ComNews received an official response signed by Sergey Chetverikov: "Automatic inter-network roaming has been enabled on the networks of telecom operators in the territory of the Graivoronsky urban district of the Belgorod Region." This information was confirmed to the ComNews correspondent as an eyewitness by a representative of one of the regional fixed-line operators in the Belgorod Region.

Sergey Chetverikov also reported: "The tariffs will not change for subscribers, the home network tariff will apply." Representatives of PJSC MTS, PJSC VimpelCom, PJSC MegaFon and Tele2 (OOO T2 RTK Holding) refused to comment on the introduction of inter-operator roaming in the Belgorod Region and to confirm that a subscriber of one cellular network will be served by competitors' base stations at the home tariff.

The return to inter-network roaming in the Belgorod region was forced. As a result of shelling from Ukrainian territory, residents of the border areas of the Belgorod region periodically experience problems with mobile communications. There are no documented facts of base stations being hit, but cellular networks depend on the power supply and the operability of energy facilities. For example, the head of the administration of the border Grayvoronsky district of the Belgorod region, Gennady Bondarev, reported in the Telegram channel on March 18, 2024: "Power teams have been working for several days - they have not yet been able to restore the power supply, but now we have found alternative options and, if the operational situation allows, we will implement them. Yesterday, we partially restored the cellular communication of the Tele2 operator. MTS is not there yet - we are continuing the work today."

The next day, March 19, Gennady Bondarev reported there: "We are receiving messages from you about relatives who remained in the area and are not in touch. The phones are dead, the cellular connection is poor. On my instructions, the heads of the territories are taking the requests into consideration and going to the addresses. Of course, if the operational situation allows it."