According to the project, mobile operators will be required to stop providing services for the numbers of certain subscribers after receiving a corresponding application from the head of the correctional institution.
The parliamentarian drew attention to the violation of the ban for prisoners on the use of telephones in prisons. According to him, annually about 60 thousand devices are seized, while they are used for fraud, as well as coordination of criminal gangs.
In turn, Oleg Ivanov, Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Media, said that the Ministry of Telecommunications had previously and with reservations supported the idea.
In February, kp.ru reported that in the Surgut high security colony, an attempt to transfer 23 mobile phones to convicts was stopped.