Surely everyone saw MTS advertising that the mobile operator has now canceled any borders within the country and now you can travel to any region without roaming. Great, isn't it? You calmly move from Vladivostok to Moscow, and you do not need to buy a separate SIM card to make cheaper calls. But have borders really disappeared? Let’s figure out what the tariff for MTS “United Country” is, what is the catch of this seemingly advantageous stock.
What does the option "United country"
In an interview, MTS marketing director Vyacheslav Nikolaev explained the importance of the connected stock. In 2014, after a sharp jump in the dollar, many residents of the country refused to travel abroad, preferring domestic resorts. An increase in the number of people moving within the country leads to an increase in operator income. Due to the new campaign, MTS hopes to “talk” to old customers and attract new ones.
Service "One Country" (MTS), description
The operator offers all of its subscribers not to pay roaming charges for incoming calls. Thus, the price for each minute of a received call is 0 rubles. You can also connect for free.
Unlike other operators that charge a monthly fee for every day of using a particular service while roaming, MTS does not have this. Provides for "United Country" (MTS) the cost of outgoing calls within the network, which amount to 8.90 rubles per minute.
According to company representatives, this is much less than that of the closest competitors. So at “Tele 2” the cost of one minute of a call is 5 rubles, and at “Megafon” - almost 10.
Connection
Available to all MTS "United Country" subscribers. How to connect the service, we will understand further.
There are two ways in total:
- Using your personal account. To do this, go to the site and enter the subscriber’s personal page. This is done very simply, you just need a phone, which will receive SMS with a code. Enter it in the appropriate field, and you will immediately enter the page. In the "Rates and Promotions" section you can find the MTS "United Country" entry. How to activate the service, further questions should not arise. You simply click on the button and agree to its provision.
- The second way - you can dial a combination of numbers on the phone and then follow the prompts. Code * 808 # and then call, or the second option - * 111 * 808 # call.
How to disable the service
Disconnecting occurs in the same ways as connecting. That is, you can either enter your page on the site or dial the combination * 808 # and * 111 * 808 #.
MTS, "United Country": what's the catch?
As you know, free cheese lies only in a mousetrap. It seems to you that now roaming in the regions has really been canceled? In fact, no one has done this and is unlikely to do it, because for operators traveling people across Russia is a considerable source of income. The tariff "United Country" (MTS) only at first glance seems so tempting.
At the beginning of last year, the mobile operator Scartel from Yota complained to the Antimonopoly Service that the mobile MTS was misleading its customers. Their advertisement “We have canceled roaming” is perceived by a simple person with a real conviction that there are no borders now. Although in reality no one has canceled anything. Moving to another region, you can not pay for incoming, but for outgoing, the price increases. When there is no roaming, the tariff should remain unchanged.
Another confirming fact that roaming remains is the function of connecting the action. After all, if there is no roaming, why connect something? And here you need to perform a number of actions.
According to Yota, Scartel is the only operator that did not charge a fee for incoming calls to other regions before MTS. Thus, the question "MTS (" United Country ") - what is the catch?" receives a response that the operator has not abolished the borders, this is just a commercial that misleads users.
Read carefully the fine print.
You can connect the service to all tariff plans, both existing and those in the archive. But! There is a whole list of new packages for which the MTS "Single Country" option is already provided automatically. And you can’t refuse it. Thus, if you want to save money by connecting "Everywhere at home", then you will not succeed. Use what they give, as they say.
Do you think that paying has really become more profitable? Go to the MTS website and once again carefully read the terms of service.
With the first paragraph, everything is clear. The "Single Country" (MTS) option is valid outside the home region. The second one is also not in doubt - the cost is regulated by the current basic tariffs (recall, 8.90 rubles per minute). And here is the third one! When you activate the "One Country" service, all other promotions that help to save in roaming are automatically reset.
In addition to the "United Country", MTS no longer has roaming offers. “All regions of MTS of Russia” cannot be connected since 2009, that is, if you managed to do this, then it may be beneficial for you to leave everything as it is, and you should not switch. And “Everywhere at Home” was blocked at the end of 2014.
We consider the benefits
Let’s once again recall the MTS “United Country” tariff.
Outgoing calls | $ 8.90 |
Incoming calls | 0,0 rub. |
Subscription fee | 0,0 rub. |
Connection cost | 0,0 rub. |
Other operators also have some very interesting suggestions. For example, Megafon implements the service All Russia. We give a table of prices.
Outgoing calls | $ 3.00 |
Incoming calls | 0,0 rub. |
Subscription fee | 7.00 rubles per day |
Connection cost | 0,0 rub. |
"Tele2" offers its subscribers also very favorable conditions in roaming.
Outgoing calls | $ 2.50 |
Incoming calls | 0,0 rub. |
Subscription fee | 5.00 rubles per day |
Connection cost | 0,0 rub. |
So to declare that MTS cancels roaming, the company simply does not have the right. Other operators offer no less favorable tariffs, but advertise them more modestly.
Internet is another matter
Without the World Wide Web now can not do. And even though telephone communication will maintain its leading position for a long time due to the fact that it’s still more convenient to call than to correspond, and operators will have income from this, but, as the realities of our time show, making calls using applications such as Skype or WatsUp more and more popular and profitable.
Back to roaming. When you move from your home region, prices go up not just for calls. Internet access is becoming more problematic. And again, consider our favorite operators.
MTS ("One Country") offers a price of 9.90 per megabyte. That is, not only will you pay a lot of money for the conversation (just imagine, some 10 minutes to say: "Hello, how are you," will cost 89 rubles) and plus 10 rubles per megabyte. For you to understand, 10 minutes of watching news on social networks will eat you at least 50 megabytes. And if you start to correspond? Or call on Skype with the video?
No one claims that roaming at other operators is cheaper. But you can search for pretty good deals. Megafon has the option “Everything is at home”. Pay 39 rubles a day and use all the privileges of your tariff plan as if you did not leave your region. The same operator in corporate SIM cards has free access to 300 megabytes of Internet outside the home zone.
Conclusion
Dealing with the question "MTS (" United Country ") - what is the catch?", We came to this conclusion. If you have been using the services of this operator for a long time, then, in principle, you have no choice. You either enable this option and enjoy the journey, or you will look for a new SIM card of the region where you arrived. And if you’re used to Megafon, Tele 2, Beeline or another operator, then you should not change it to an “attractive offer from MTS”. Not so it is attractive.