MegaFon-Moscow: It's not the amount of the bonus, but the ability to use

Exactly one year ago in MegaFon formed bonus program in its current form, read the full description here. A year later, the system worked, and tariffs for subscribers "Light", though with some modifications. Try to understand what benefits it promises a bonus to us and how to take advantage of these benefits.

Stickers with an advertising program teasers MegaFon-Bonus for the fifth day of puzzling passengers of the Moscow metro. In the bulk of these Muscovites on labels do not pay attention (in a hurry), but unhurried retired brakes and purposefully poring over puzzling questions:

• Do you have a bonus?
• What size is your bonus?
• Or maybe you have a bonus increase?

It seems to return almost forgotten "funky-style" in advertising campaigns respected operator: an antenna on the palms, unshaven young man with lipstick, the distribution of dummy grenades with vibrators, etc. One can argue about the ethics of such a slightly ambiguous advertising, but to combat it was too late. On the background of some television masterpieces questionable teasers with questions about the size of the bonus look just riding chastity. By the way, get a photograph of stickers was not so simple: half an hour was kept at the police station, and from execution without trial, saved only card of the journalist. It turns out that Metro is a strategic object, picture turnstiles probably do for the educational benefits of suicide bombers.

Description of the program can be read on the site operator, the program "MegaFon-Bonus" includes all contract subscribers, as well as enjoying tariff plans LITE (Mobile, One, Ruble, OLayt, Just Rates, GSMLite, FIX, FIXLITE). Unlike the bonus program MegaFon from the usual bonus and discount schemes lies in the fact that bonuses can be used to pay for these special packages that you can not just buy it. The good news is that participation in the program do not need anything, all the Light-subscribers are connected to the program by default. More familiar with the rules of participation here, some important quote and comment. Some questions had to be refined separately, it would be good in the future to supplement the program description on the site.

• Rewards are accumulated by themselves. To your bonus account will be credited the amount of bonus points equal to 5% of all prepaid services for the month (excluding VAT), excluding the cost of roaming. Bonus points kopyatsya within a month. Key phrase - "the sum of all paid services." Adding to the balance of the sum of 1000 rubles, we get 42 bonus on special accounts at once, but only to spend the 1000 rub. communication services.
• At the beginning of next month, the accumulated amount of your bonus points added to your bonus account. Not so that would be quite early, but the number of 12-14 is quite possible to hope for.
• Attention! The accumulation of bonus points does not apply to the payment of roaming services, or use free and not tarifitsiruemyh services.
• Bonus points are awarded only to paid services. How this rule works in practice? For example, in October, the balance of your account turned negative (the indebtedness). If in October you repay, the bonus will be credited in full.But if the debt repaid in November, the bonus will accrue only to the amount of payment with the net debt in October.
• Accrual accounting and score is over cumulative for each number separately, even if at a personal account maintained by a few numbers. In contrast to contractual bonuses for TA, where the accumulated bonuses can be used to pay for the package to any member of the group within the same general account.
• At Light fares simply list bonuses at the expense of not, they have to spend to pay packet.
• "Snap" to the Light-number MegaFon-Citibank credit card and get paid for its use bonuses while it is impossible, but the corresponding completion bonus program in the future is not excluded.
• SMS-packages for the bonus points for Light fares are not available, and contracts for "work" only the end of September. Whether to impose on October 1 and for which groups of tariffs is still unknown.
• A separate issue - validity of payments. While billing system still works, ie upon expiration of the payment phone will be locked even when you use "bought" for the bonus package, for example, monthly unlimited connections. But very likely the corresponding tuning billing until September time enough.
• When you change one TP to another contractual bonus account is preserved and mounted package is valid, will this scheme work for the fees until the Light is not known.

How it works

Bonuses paid for communications services on Light fares have accumulated since the beginning of July, but to see the specific figures in the service guide will be closer to mid-August. The same information will be available when sending an SMS with the text "0" (zero) on the toll free number 5010. Immediately after the "savings" on the bonus account can be connected to the appropriate packages (see table below) by sending the appropriate SMS-messages (code table) for the same number 5010. You can activate multiple packets simultaneously.

The emergence of the "bonus menu of exotic packages such as" Local connection for 2-night hours (from 3:00-5:00) of the following calendar day due to bonuses is likely explained by the desire of the operator at least something to offer in exchange for a modest 15 bonuses. To the subscriber's interest in the game was not lost.Again, let the better man izvedet bonus savings on calls to off-peak time, which will be purposefully accumulate 450 units and then a month to torment unlimited network connection.

Purchased package	Number of bonuses	Sms-code
Local connection for 2-night hours (from 3:00-5:00) of the following calendar day	15	704
Local connection for 2-morning hours (7:00-9:00) of the following calendar day	15	701
Local connection for 2-day (from 13:00-15:00) hours of the next calendar day	20	702
Local connection in for 2 night (from 21:00-23:00) hours of the next calendar day	20	703
Following calendar day - unlimited local connection	100	200
Local connection during the weekend nearest the calendar week	150	300
Local connection in the next calendar month	450	400

Note: Local link - outgoing calls to numbers of MegaFon-Moscow ", the numbers of Moscow and Moscow region, mobile phones in the Moscow region (MTS, BeeLine, Skylink)

MTS St. Petersburg: take the bonus into their own hands?

Renowned national sport - the baton of trampling rakes, and bonus program MTS "You call - we pay!" was another confirmation of this sad truth. The program operates from June 10 announcement can be found here. The essence of the program - the prize cents subscribers of "Professional" for incoming calls from any regional mobile network. Similar conditions were offered to subscribers of the Moscow O'Layt (MegaFon) who received the account of one cent per call lasting more than a minute. It is well known what came of it and we wrote about this a year ago: was purchased unlimited tariff for the head and several firmochki O'Laytov for casual employees, working hours (evening and night) "unlimited" SIM-card is used to "inflate" On balance 'lights, night savings were enough to ensure free communication of employees during the workday.

The program MTS opportunities for abuse was significantly more: a bonus penny "dropped" on account already at the fourth second of the compound, allowing hassle-free and cost-effectively use any old fare with a five-second intervals on the defensive calls. So is it any wonder that after just a week after the beginning of the action appeared related software? A quote from the correspondence in the forum:

Some statistics for yesterday's day: It was quite a MTS.2005 - 2800 calls. Of these tariffed due to excess 5-per-second threshold - 23 calls. Subtotal: error less than 1 percent.Are working on.

Two weeks later, the MTS realized it and decided to limit the scope of the artificial inflation of account balance. On July 3 the maximum amount of bonus earnings in a separate account has been limited to the amount of $ 2 (see note in the description of the tariff). I remember, a similar restriction in its time was introduced by MegaFon for O'Laytov, presumably for the same reasons. However, already an established process for this dvuhdollarovy barrier did not stop, because even 60 bucks a month is not excessive. " A quote from the correspondence in the forum:

If the average consumption per month 30 bucks, then a year can save 360 ​​bucks. Roaming on vacation. :) I personally do this: Buy 10 packs Profi50. And will they cheat. 2 bucks, it's 200 calls or 1.5 hours. 55.8 * 10 = 558 bucks a month. Not bad. :)

The next step of MTS in this trench warfare with the 'advanced' subscribers did not wait: the first August trip threshold of the system will be raised to a level of 10 seconds, allowing at least out of the game is widely distributed rates with five-second guard interval. However, the people had already acquired a taste for the game and is unlikely to abandon it, good opportunities still more than enough. Particularly advanced personality even take a kind of "cross-pollination" with marketing initiatives of the two different operators, and individual enthusiasts without special software. A quote from the correspondence in the forum:

On weekends, pump up "TELE2.Zarplata" using "MTS.PROFI 50 with unlimited weekend service. Exchanges Rates on weekdays with TELE2.Zarplata "to" TELE2.Svoboda "and pump up" MTS.PROFI 50. Bleeding occurs without the aid of a computer.

It is clear that massive financial losses the operator does not bear: terms of shares does not provide for removal of bonus income in cash, including in the event of termination of the contract. However, the summer - the traditional time for vacations, and God himself ordered to use "honestly earned" dollars on calls while roaming, and sharply increased the cost of inter-operator interconnection has not been canceled. In general, marketing initiatives - a piece thin, and pay for the "dancing on the rake" will have the rest of the subscribers of other operators take the money nowhere.