MTS and Mosekomonitoring introduce new «green» mobile service Ekomonitoring
The largest Russian mobile network operator MTS and the state environmental institution Mosekomonitoring of Moscow Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Protection announce the launch of new mobile service Ekomonitoring. The service is available for MTS subscribers in Moscow. Subscribers can get information about ecological state of the place where they are at the moment of making a request. The users get data about air contamination level, concentration of impurities (percentage of the norm) and expected air contamination level for the following day.
To get information about ecological state in the subscribers location area, the users should send a text message («ECO») to short number 1945. In response to their SMS subscribers recieve the information. Data for SMS requests is updated every hour.
Price of the SMS sent to short number 1945 is 6.78 rubles (including VAT), that's less than 20 cents. Incoming text messages are free.
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