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Subject: <nettime> "MGTS must die!"
From: "inform@teleportacia.org" <inform@teleportacia.org>
Date: 23 Dec 1997 14:00:44 +0100

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On Saturday, 20 around thousand people came to the square in
front of Moscow White House to protest against new price policy of MGTS
(Moscow City Telephone Network).

Since 1,January 1998 monthly phone payment will be doubled.
4$=>8$ (Minimal salary in Moscow - 15$) and it will include only 700
minutes (~23 min a day). After you pay per minute and nobody knows how
much its going to be.

Demonstrants were very young, teenagers, students - the most passive
part of mascovites. Internet users and FidoNet veterans demanded to
stop a monopolist and prevent informational contrrevolution.
In the crowd one could identify some persons running Internet
providing
companies.

Actually, the idea of Saturday action came from St.Peterburg, but there
activists failed to get a permition to "demonstrate their collective
protest".



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