Igor Magazinnik answered questions 42.TUT.BY on Viber, your new project and the arrest of Protopine.

Igor Magazinnik is a co - founder of the company that produced the world-famous Internet messenger Viber, told 42.TUT.BY about his attitude to try monetizing Viber in Belarus and about the secret project involving Belarusian programmers.

We met Igor in the Park of high technologies, where Republican forum "Youth in IT - 2015". The Viber co-founder told the young men about how to get started the project, what the challenges were, what mistakes and discoveries they did.

Found Igor and a few minutes to answer questions 42.TUT.BY.

About trying to monetize Viber in Belarus

As you know, the communications Ministry of Belarus is actively considering the monetization of the popular Internet messengers in Belarus. The interaction of Belarusian operators and Skype, Viber and other SPA services are planned to be discussed until the end of June at the next meeting of the expert Council on entrepreneurship under the Ministry of communication and information.

it is also Known that monetize the services Skype and Viber in Belarus officials plan for the account of the subscribers of mobile operators.

According to Magazinnik, Viber has not yet received any requests from the Ministry of communications or any other Belarusian authorities. As for possible monetization, he said that in a number of small countries have been similar attempts, but they all eventually failed.

Igor said that he has always advocated network neutrality: "If I bought the operator megabytes, then it is my right, where to spend". According to him, the laws on "network neutrality" is already being actively pursued in many countries.

About my secret project

In the end of April there is information about what the founders Viber actively working on a new project that aims to "change the world". All the details about it are kept secret.

did Not want to disclose information Igor and now: "the Only what can I say, it's something completely unrelated to Viber and all this area." the

However, Viber and a new project there are similarities - the main number of developers will be in Minsk. At the moment, they have scored 12 people (including the head), and Sunday will be the opening of the Minsk office of the project (exactly where, he didn't tell). Later the office will be opened in Israel.

According to Magazinnik, the new project is not something new, and they will have to face serious competition. What a project, we'll know soon enough - the veil of mystery will be removed early next year.

See also: the head of the company that has bought Viber, arrived in Belarus and spoke about the future of the messenger