too expensive for russians

Bankers state that they are obliged by law to inform customers about transactions with accounts. Channel 24 also writes that due to the removal of banking apps from app stores, some customers of sanctioned banks are no longer able to access free push notifications (notifications on smartphones).

Such customers have to send SMS, the cost of which varies from 0.7 rubles to 1.5 rubles. At the same time, since 2022, some mobile operators have already quadrupled the cost of SMS. As a result, the costs of sending messages are calculated tens of billions of rublesBankers complain.

Financial institutions have already made a similar request to the Russian authorities. Last spring, they asked them to consider the possibility of reducing the cost of messages by 0.5-1 rubles. The request was justified by the pressure of sanctions and increased costs by billions of rubles.

At the same time, if large banks can still pay for the services of operators at wholesale prices, then small organizations using less cellular communications have to pay from 0.7 to 4 rubles per message.