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Exactly!  However, I'm not sure there would be a fully functional GSM operator at all. I guess the Soviet economy had no chances in producing hi-tech devices, so they would need to import foreign cellular phones, |
What about weapons
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but Soviet government always avoided import of consumer electronics etc., just few arrived here via partially unofficial channels and were sold on black markets. I guess
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there would be the only network that would cover only Moscow and Leningrad city centers accessible only for roamers and communist party bosses.  Or, they |
Quite possible. After all, there's a GSM network in Cuba and even in North Korea
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You didn't end your phrase about Transdnistria, what's about operators there?
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oster_oops: - just corrected it - I meant no "native" GSM network is there (although the area is probably covered by Moldovan networks).
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Actually, this stripe of land is much more USSR than Belarus, people say it often looks as time stands still there.  However, it's not a real country with 10 millions of people, such as Belarus. |
Transnistria is not a country in this sense that it isn't recognised by any other country, but de facto it is a country with its own president, government, parliament, currency and border controls.
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You know, Russian landline monopolists usually provide some discounts for veterans and invalids too. [...]
never heard here about any discounts for veterans on GSM tariffs.
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The discounts in Poland were forced by telecommunication law. AFAIK those discounts are now obligatory for so-called "dominant operators" only i.e. the ones that have at least 40% share in the market. In the mobile market it's almost impossible so that such a situation would happen since there are 3 moreless equivalent operators, and the fourth one with licence valid from June 2006. But on the landline market Polish Telecom will always be dominant (about 90% now).