In Russia, proposed to introduce a fee for utility services, depending on the volume of their consumption. It will become similar to those that are in the course of mobile operators. This proposal was made by the deputy head of the Ministry of Construction, Andrei Chibis. According to him, this can be done after the automation of control of consumption of services and reading of indications. Such a measure is necessary "to rationally load capacity, including those that have already been built, without building a new infrastructure that will be more expensive to contain". As options, the deputy minister proposed tariffs "economy", "optimum" and "no limit". A new approach is one of the principles of the "Smart City" program, which can become part of the priority project "Housing and Urban Environment", Chibis noted. Earlier, on March 2, it became known about the new initiative of senators on housing and communal services tariffs.

Since the "social" insurance for housing is illegally imposed on citizens, this line should be excluded from receipts for payment of housing and communal services, suggested in the Council of Federation Committee on Economic Policy. If this happens, the rent bills will decrease. Prior to this, in December last year, analyst Natalya Milchakova said that in 2018. Explosive increase in tariffs for utility services is not expected. According to her, the growth of consumer prices will hardly reach 3%.