According to the presidential resolution “On forecast of main macroeconomic figures and parameters of the state budget of Uzbekistan for 2015”, the mobile operators will pay 1,500 soums a month per subscriber in 2016, which grew twice compared to 2015.

The payment is paid for each subscriber, number of which determined at the end of each month. The Government of Uzbekistan introduced the payment in 2012.

The funds received from the payment is directed to the State Budget of Uzbekistan (80%) and to the Ministry for development information technologies and communication (20%) with further direction to financing investment programmes and programmes on information and development of telecommunication networks.