Director-General of Unitel Dmitry Shukov said: “This is the second increase in this year, but nevertheless, we do not plan to shift this burden over the subscribers. We already have mass-media and users of social networks asking questions about if this rise of fee will affect our tariffs. I would like to reassure customers: despite the fact that only for Beeline additional expenses for the second half of the year are expressed in tens of billions of soums and it does not mean that the subscription fee will automatically be increased from 1 July".

The fee for the subscriber number was introduced from 1 January 2012. Initial size of subscriber number was 400 soums per month. Mobile operators paid 1,500 soums for the subscriber number in 2016. In the beginning of 2017, the subscriber number fee was increased to 2,000 soums.