Over 16,000 licences for supplying various communications services have been awarded and are valid now in Russia. Of these about 3,700 are effective in Moscow where more than 1,400 licensed operators work. Many of them specialize in supplying fixed and mobile telephony services.

The data on the number of licences effective in Moscow for providing essential telephony services is given in the table below:

No.	Service	Licences
1.	Fixed (local)	895
2.	Fixed (inter-city)	139
3.	International	67
4.	Mobile (2G)*	7

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