Such devices bring not high but stable profit to operators.

Around 2 mln. of Megafon subscribers – automate devices, these SIM cards implemented in devices that use mobile communication for data transfer to automate platforms (machine-to-machine, M2M), announced operator’s representative Tatyana Zvereva. This is around 3% of operator’s subscribers base (according to operator’s data, Megafon had 68 mln.subscribers as of end of 2Q2014).