Comment Claimed to be remnant of old agreements... read on (Score 1) 94
For whoever can read Russian:
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/telecom/129943/
For those who can't - "Marina Akulich, blog-secretary of MTS, this is an official company comment - at this time company does not prohibit using any VoIP services such as Skype and the likes. Obviously, installation of such software is not blocked an all corresponding services are granted at full scale. The issue came out of Comstar-Direct (probably an acquisition done by MTS) company who did not have a license to provide voice communications over Internet (translator: that's a weird case of Russian licensing to you). All customer agreements are being updated now and this paragraph will be removed from all new version of such agreements".
Bottom line: corporate SNAFU.