July 14, 2014. Private individuals – subscribers to telecommunication networks owed their providers 24.6bn RUR as of July 1, 2014, which was 21% more than a year earlier. This figure went up in Ural Federal District, too, and amounted to 2.1bn RUR (compared with 1.69bn RUR a year earlier), the National Collection Service reports.
The increase in telecommunication debts is gradually going down: in 2012, the amount of debt rose by 24% on the previous year, in 2013 and 2014, the figure was 22% and 21%, respectively. This decline has to do with the disappearance of the low base effect (when percentage growth figures tend to be quite high).
The median figures for telecommunication debts that were handed over to collectors were 790 RUR/250 days in the first half of 2014.

In terms of debts along different connection types, the figures looked as follows as of July 1, 2014: 22bn RUR for mobile connection including data transfer (17.3bn RUR on July 1, 2013); 1.3bn RUR for landline telephone connection, including 1.2bn RUR owed for long-distance and international calls (2bn RUR and 1.7bn RUR, respectively, on July 1, 2013); 1.3bn RUR for home Internet connection and IPTV (1.1bn RUR on July 1, 2013).
The amount of bad debt came to 27.5bn RUR at the end of 2013.