Ended the long holidays safely prikuplennye reprimanded for Christmas greetings SIM-cards are tough work days. You can look around and try to sort out the mobile space and time. Yes, advertising "New Year" Jeans is still present, but the famous dvuhtsentovoy vnutrisetyu left to enjoy a little more than two weeks. Mobile vampires still clung to its perch until the March holidays, but a half months - is not an eternity. Meanwhile, somehow unnoticed (behind the fuss feast) entered into force "rules of rendering of mobile services, a separate interesting issue. Let's see what we are starting a new year 2006. "Correct 'mobility
Suffering, "Rules" is finally in place, less than a year. With detailed analysis of some interesting and amusing features of this historical document can be found here and here is highly recommended reading, as you do not want to repeat. Apparently, over the past five months, the document was not changed, the full text can be found here (pdf-file ~ 160 Kb). As we wrote last year, the "Rules" are the most basic guidance, under which will be developed by the appropriate orders and instructions of the Ministry of Communication. However, in the document are present and very specific provisions to be observed today.The long-awaited three seconds
Of particular interest for us is paragraph 31:Duration of the connection of a mobile network that is used to determine the amount of the fee, reckoned from the 1 st second call is connected, or equipment, the signal response is equal to the call is answered, hang up until the caller or the called party or such equipment. The compound of less than 3 seconds is not included in the volume of services rendered mobile.
The word "connection" certainly applies to all types of calls, ie non tariffing three-second threshold to appear as a incoming and on outgoing calls. In any case pay attention to the first sentence of the paragraph: the countdown goes from the first second, ie in TP per-second charging call duration of 10 seconds will be billed as a ten-second, rather than semisekundny. Now let's see how it is observed in practice.
Beeline decided the question directly and ingenuously: on all tariff plans introduced a three-second non tariffing threshold that existed five-second thresholds are eliminated. Which is hardly pleased with a certain category of subscribers, manages to communicate with five-second intervals. Presumably, regular workouts have developed such people have a special sense of time, allowing an ideal fit in the five free seconds. Wean it will be difficult to retrain for three seconds, is virtually useless - for this time and only have time to scream, "Call!". This statement has not forgotten to inform the innovation of its subscribers, now any call to abonsluzhbu begins with listening to the message of the new three-second thresholds. And the message is global in nature: "... the first of January in the networks of cellular operators change the value of non tariffing threshold." Downright "TASS is authorized to declare." Text messages can be heard here (wma-file 100 Kb).
According to the press service of the MTS, the most lucky users of the old tariffs: the existing five-second intervals left intact, a three-second threshold is added where this guard interval is not at all.It's nice that there are penny wise with all the trimming for a total three-second comb.
Into a megaphone transition process is not yet complete, although all are open to three-second intervals to connect the TP is already in place (except for TP "One"). Promise to quickly provide the rapids and all other fees, the issue should be solved within a few days. It is unclear why MegaFon-Moscow has slowed down with the introduction of new thresholds, not otherwise all the forces were thrown for debugging transfer billing in the ruble zone. "
In rubles and VAT
Another iconic item of "Rules" refers to ruble settlements.38. All payments for mobile services provided to service provider customers, made in Russian rubles.
Many viewed the item as an unconditional order to specify the price in rubles. However, it is not so, the wording is very vague and contains no direct requirements. The calculations in rubles - of course, but the dollars at the box office operators and to the first of January did not take. Nevertheless, the ruble will go, and soon enough. MegaFon has already passed, the Beeline promise to complete the process during the first half. Prices in rubles and VAT not everybody likes, but it's a matter of time and habit. And with the transition to the other will disappear Dollars important reason of discontent: the difficulty of comparing the ruble tariffs MegaFon with dollar rates of other operators.
Food packages be abolished?
It would seem quite clear point of new "rules":21. Telecom operator has no right to impose a caller to provide additional mobile services rendered for a fee. Telecoms operator may not condition the provision of some mobile services mandatory provision of other telecommunications services.
Looks like a direct prohibition to sell tariffs included in the SMS-Service subscription fee or offer MMS-messages only in conjunction with other GPRS-services. However, below we see a "clarification":
33. Tariffs for mobile services can be installed in the form of tariffs (tariffs) on certain mobile services or sets of mobile communications services. Service plan may establish different rates for the time of day, weekdays, weekends and public holidays, as well as recruitment and scope of services of mobile communication.
On the one hand, the operator does not condition the right, on the other - has the full right to sell the tariffs, which differ "on the set and the volume of services provided." Apparently, it should be understood as an obligation of the operator to provide any additional service separately for at least one tariff plan, then all the other fares quite fit the definition of "differentiated set and volume." Indirect confirmation of this thesis, we are seeing in the new tariff "Standard" Beeline.
Non-standard "Standards"
A detailed description of the tariff items "Standard 1" look here. In almost all respects - an exact copy of "Time", changing only the GPRS-packet. Fee of $ 3 has disappeared, but the GPRS-Internet has grown from $ 0.19 to $ 0.29 per megabyte, and GPRS-Wap from $ 0.03 to $ 0.08 per 10 kilobytes of data received and sent. At the same time pay to make Caller ID (3 cents a day). Formally, the rate can be considered as focused on a very narrow circle of those times in three days, makes a call and a couple of times per month looks at the internet or download a picture from Wap-site. Although it seems more plausible hypothesis about "sharpened" tariff under paragraph 21 of "Rules" (see above)."Standard 2" differs from "Standard 1" credit form of payment, and 6 cents for an SMS-message instead of 5 cents in "Standard 1". Yes, I almost forgot: for the happiness of speaking to credit Beeline takes a $ 2 monthly fee.