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user-inactivated  ·  3133 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Russia’s State Duma just approved some of the most repressive laws in post-Soviet history

    EDIT: Apparently, the lawmakers are willing to make revisions "if Russians’ phone bills spike".

Either Russian IT guys are much less insubordinate than American IT guys or saying that ensured that the project will be expensive enough to make the phone bills spike whether or not it needed to be expensive enough to make the phone bills spike.





user-inactivated  ·  3133 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The promised price spike is said to come from the expenses of purchasing and maintaining the necessary equipment - data storage, eventual repair, electricity to run the whole thing etc.. Whether or not it's that expensive is beyond me, but common sense dictates to agree with the cell providers.