Muscovites began to receive SMS notifications about possible interruptions in the operation of the mobile Internet. As Kommersant and RIA Novosti wrote, such notifications are received by subscribers of MTS, Beeline and Megafon.
“In order to ensure security measures in your region, it is possible to impose temporary restrictions on the operation of mobile Internet,” the operators inform.
It is worth noting that subscribers can use services from the “white list” – sites that should be available during a mobile Internet outage.
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Problems with mobile Internet and mobile communications have been observed in Moscow since the beginning of March. RBC sources reported that this is testing “whitelists”. According to media reports, these lists were published in Moscow on March 13.
On March 14, residents of the Moscow region began to be warned about “temporary difficulties” in using mobile Internet, and on March 17, residents of St. Petersburg began to be warned.