According to the Ministry of Digital Development, mobile internet traffic in Russia has decreased for the first time ever. In the second quarter of 2022, the traffic fell by 2.3% to 8.35 billion gigabytes (vs. 8.54 billion gigabytes in the first quarter). Up to that moment, the traffic figures had been growing quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year.

Megafon confirmed the decrease in the mobile internet traffic. MTS did not see the typical growth of traffic from March till May. Tele2 recorded the decrease, but only by 1.6% in Q2.

According to MTS, the traffic decrease is due to foreign Internet resources ban and the exit of foreign companies from Russia. the Ministry of Digital Development also believes the decrease to be related to foreign web services ban in Russia. The ministry notes that the Internet traffic inside Russia has significantly grown and almost replaced the services that left the market.

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