Russian MVNO Tinkoff Mobile, a subsidiary of Tinkoff Bank, has been fined RUB 100,000 by the federal competition watchdog FAS, reports Comnews.ru. The fine was imposed for violating the Law on Advertising, by carrying misleading information about its roaming services. This is the first such penalty from the FAS for “Tinkoff Mobile”. According to experts, operators regularly mislead consumers in advertising roaming offers.

As told in the press service of the FAS, the advertisement was distributed in the social network “VKontakte” through the site and the electronic application “VK” on the basis of IOS. “The banner with the advertisement in the news line reported:” Unlimited Internet on social networks and messengers. Without roaming in Russia. Without hidden subscriptions. Without imposed services. Click and learn all the details! “, And also contained a hyperlink to go to the operator’s website,” – was informed in the press service of the FAS.

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At the same time, as it was reported to the FAS, it turned out that the operator provides unlimited Internet and the absence of roaming not on the whole of Russia, but on the territory that excludes the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. “So, subscribers of” Tinkoff Mobile “, staying in these territories, will be in roaming conditions,” the FAS pointed out.

Thus, as indicated in the agency, in the advertisement posted in “VKontakte”, the operator promised communication services without roaming throughout the territory of Russia, but did not specify at the same time that this offer does not apply to the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol.

“The company has been ordered by the FAS Russia, it should stop posting such information in advertising, and the company was fined for violating advertising laws.” The fine for distributing advertisements that do not correspond to the reality of information about the consumer properties of communication services amounted to 100,000 rubles, ” Head of the Office of Advertising Control and NDC FAS Russia Tatyana Nikitina.

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Chairman of the public organization for the protection of consumer rights “Public Consumer Initiative” Oleg Pavlov in a conversation with a correspondent of ComNews said that operators regularly mislead consumers in advertising roaming offers. It is both about the real cost of services on trips around Russia and abroad, as well as on the terms of connection and payment, restrictions on traffic and the geography of the use of offers. “FAS several times fined the operators, in particular, MTS (Mobile TeleSystems PJSC) was held accountable for the advertising campaign” We canceled roaming “,” VimpelCom “(Beeline brand) – for the” Farewell, Roaming “campaign, pointed out Oleg Pavlov.