Together with the new Internet tariff in MTS appeared the service "Internet +", specifically targeted at users of smartphones and communicators. Details, see here, a quote from the official website of the company:
If you use your phone to view e-mail communications to ICQ and visit your favorite online resources, but are forced to limit themselves to working with the mobile Internet - for you, we offer a new service "Internet +".
"Internet +" - it is an opportunity without increasing the cost of mobile internet use it more actively, because the cost of 1 megabyte of traffic in the daytime (8:00 to 24:00) is reduced by more than half - from 0.25 cu up to 0,12 USD up to 1 MB.
"Internet + is available to subscribers of« RED »and" First ", as well as tariff plans range" Profi ". Monthly fee for service "Internet + is 0.99 cu Connection cost is 0,5 USD for TA «RED» and "First", 1 cu for the tariff plans range "Profi".
To activate the service "Internet + dial from your mobile phone:
- 002222124 if you have a TA «RED» or "First"
- 0880246 if you have a data plan "Profi"
The main distinguishing feature of the "Internet + - 33 rubles monthly fee. 53 kopecks per month, we get the price megabyte in size 6.4 rubles during the day and 3.39 at night. More than two-fold reduction in prices compared to GPRS with no monthly fee: 8.47 USD. day and 3.39 at night. Why this sudden generosity? Reasons, apparently, a few: general developments and trends in the market of Internet access, growing rapidly population smartphones, communicators and phones with browsers, Opera Mini, a little more desire to increase ARPU prepaid-subscriber.
In the years since the advent of GPRS-access, the situation in the market has changed significantly. Several major operators vying offer high speed Internet access for a very reasonable price, STREAM gradually reduce prices or increase quality of service for the same price. Analog modems used by those who need the internet on occasion, the same applies to GPRS-access as a major. Accordingly, the positioning of service "Internet +" - cheap mobile Internet in your pocket "(ICQ, Mini-Opera, e-mail client). Traffic generated by these applications is relatively small, and the average user is unlikely many will benefit from the connection of the new services, and some may even lose. It would be tempting to use the Internet + long journeys and trips, but MTS prudent to limit this rate the Moscow license area. Who is really significantly reduce their costs, so this suburban residents of towns and villages, forced to use GPRS-access for the lack of other connectivity options. And here we are talking about hundreds of megabytes of traffic per month. Therefore, win or lose the operator from entering the service - a moot point, not even a decline in income.But this is a problem of marketing the MTS, and we with you can not please the opportunity to use mobile Internet for less money.
There are, however, one subtlety: the service is only available to subscribers of "RED", "First" and "Professional", so that users of the old tariffs will have to buy another SIM-card and operator please abonbazy growth.
It would seem that the Internet + "renders meaningless the purchase of fare" Onlayner, but it is not. 4.74 per megabyte in the Onlayner "is really more than 6.4 in the" Internet + ", but" Onlayner "no monthly fee, and operates at this rate throughout the coverage of the federal MTS. So for a lot of traveling in Russia - the most it is a good alternative to the tariff of "clicks" from Beeline.
Below - a plate with the comparative characteristics of specialized Internet tariffs. Other proposals do not consider because of the difficulty of comparison: different handling fee is included / not included in the subscription fee, the cost of a megabyte different depending on the amount purchased GPRS-packet, etc. In MegaFon-Moscow special Internet rates unavailable (MegaFon-Modem "does not count), but only recently emerged" Office in your pocket "for corporate users, so who knows, maybe the operator and the" masses "than ever please.
Prices in rubles, VAT included, optional features omitted, since, for example, charging an international communications and the cost of calls to the "Favorite Number" is not very relevant for these tariffs. Cost Wap-traffic rounded.
| Megabyte GPRS-Internet | Megabyte GPRS-Wap | SMS-message | Size, rounding off for billing | Minutes of local calls | |
| "Onlayner (MTS) | 4,74 | 270 | 2,03 | 1 KB | 5,95 |
| "Click" (Beeline) | 4,95 | 195 | 1.95 * | 5 KB | 6,10 |
As you can see, the rates are very similar, very important for the profile differences - 21 penny difference in cost of a megabyte GPRS-Internet and 75 rubles megabyte GPRS-Wap traffic. In fact, the company has just closed the MTS-existing tariff "loopholes, and now the choice of Internet tariff will be largely determined by personal sympathies / dislikes a specific user. In some cases, the determining factor may still be a commitment to use more nimble EDGE, with whom Beeline in Moscow are still significantly better.
A separate theme - special rates that are connected with the purchase of additional equipment (cards PCMCI). They exist in MegaFon (MegaFon-Modem ") and Beeline (" GPRS-Internet ").