Weather gravitated to the onset of summer, and there were no signs of trouble. Domestic disasters crept unexpectedly: "regular" (but without any warning) off the hot water insidiously coincided with disconnecting the phone. And also without warning. It turns out, unplug the power to "planned maintenance" (after a scheduled injury, or what?), Which will last several days. No hot water yet somehow can live, but without the Internet really bad, be forced to test his service Internet access GSM-operators. The result is not pleased, but first things first. 
MGTS: Dear Internet and capricious AutoInformer
All morning the district rushed the machine private security, and severe police with machine guns ran up the stairs - for their "scheduled maintenance cable" was a surprise. As for the people, not in vain reference telephone local exchange was all day in a state of "try to call later." In the evening (when managed to get) a nice girl twittered about "answering machine was supposed to notify all". Information for girls and leadership MGTS: he (autoinformer) failed to do, I swear to voicemail. In general, answering machine thing good and useful, for it would still desire to do everything humanly. A couple of days ago, my mother suddenly stopped responding to phone calls, had some time nervous. It turns out the phone numbers (+7495) -460 -**-** changed on (+7499) -780 -**-**, autoinformer not. Why? Everything became clear after careful consideration of today's press release MGTS: it turns out, after a complete switch of number size on the PBX installed autoinformers that in 2 months tell callers about changing rooms. " We draw attention to the "after the full." Ie week waiting when will switch the entire series, and meanwhile, callers hear the usual long beeps. As an option - the very ring up all the friends and acquaintances at a price of 0.28 rubles. minute work of auto. In general, switching license franchises in the code 499 is accelerated pace, wondering who to get rid of capacity in the code 495? I do not whether cellular operators? Let's hope that the valuable resource of license will be divided equally among all, or will be put up for public auction. Latest press release MGTS can be read here.For the moment spoke with abonsluzhboy "Stream". Why do not they adjust the monthly fee during scheduled maintenance? In the end, one holding the famous single brand, shared owner, etc. Could be viewed with understanding. However, friendship is friendship, and logo apart: "We have it green, and at MGTS - blue, and refer to them." Well, thanks at least for a sense of humor.
MegaFon-EDGE: fast but unreliable
This statement is a long time ago announced the full "Yezhov" covering the whole of Moscow, and found the EDGE card immediately. Although the connection had to tinker, I forgot about what happened about a year ago, changing the access point.APN internet.msk replaced with just internet, and mobile Internet MegaFon since not used. At least, the PC-card for sure. "Subscriber" for information sent to the site operator, and go without the Internet ... Well, you know. Thanks girl from the contact center for a couple minutes helped get rid of extra three letters. I wonder, really been so technically difficult to maintain operability of the old APN?EDGE-speed connections are very pleased with the average download speed of "heavy" pages was greater than 14 Kbytes / sec. With ICQ, too, no problems, QiP always starts immediately. That's only connection was broken after 15-something minutes, the second connection is even faster. The next day, heartily glad quickly send an email with a pair of voluminous files, but the connection again did not live a half an hour. Apparently, the wrong place, sorry. Financial impact of a 100-kilobyte rounding observed due to the large volume of data transferred, but only to drive on the ICQ network MegaFon is clearly inappropriate. At least in my home.
MTS-GPRS: slowly but firmly
According to rumors, EDGE from MTS in Moscow, where he meets some, but try not succeed. As for GPRS, then in my particular case, the MTS claims were not: a clear connection with the first attempt, ICQ (QiP) loaded directly and honestly worked for 5 hours 29 minutes in a row. Average data transfer rate (for large files) was 4.6 KB / sec, which is in principle a good idea, and almost at the level of a good dial-up-connection. For ICQ can be considered ideal, but the browser display images better off, and forum native mobile-review, and with disabled images loaded painfully slow. Still, romp, and we lost the habit of such speeds, and yet when it seemed nothing.