MegaFon-Moscow: full GPRS tariffs on "Light"

"Batch" system of ordering and payment of Internet traffic at rates "Light" becomes a part of history, from April 28 to subscribers of prepaid-rate will pay for access to mobile Internet as the consumption of services. More good news - the "Light" appears complete GPRS-services, including long-awaited MMS (multimedia messaging).

Why was it necessary to "load the oranges holes"

Preview of "order" and pay the so-called "Packets" GPRS-traffic is not very pleased comparative zamorochnostyu procedures and high prices per megabyte of data. Required by SIM-menu of pre-order a certain amount of traffic, the payment is removed immediately. As you use ordered and paid package procedure must be repeated. At the same time on contract tariffs GPRS-traffic billed in the usual manner, in accordance with the amount of sent / received data. Such complexity in the prepaid-tariffs have been invented in the absence of on-line billing of data traffic, is now the opportunity was.

What is how much

Information about pricing yet, but will certainly be a surprise in the category of pleasant. Introducing GPRS on prepaid-price contract for the tariffs, TA MTS set a price level, for which a special thank you to them. On the other hand, expect MegaFon price dumping is not necessary, the operator is not needed. Rates "Light" especially attractive prices for traditional voice and buy these SIM-cards specifically for the mobile Internet will not. For the involvement of Internet users as new subscribers MegaFon would drop the price of GPRS-traffic to 10 cents per megabyte, and even then it would be difficult to compete with the MTS ($ 5 for 49 rubles). The only problem MegaFon - not "offend" the majority of existing subscribers. Therefore, the "Light" can expect more or less equal, the average market prices.

Fly in the ointment

Mobile Internet users to "Light" had already received SMS-warning about the coming transition to online billing of traffic:

Snizhenie tarifov na GPRS-Internet: 28.04.05 vvoditsya on-line tarifikatsyja. Prosim ispolzovat pakety GRPS do 27.04.05, neispol'zovannyi trafik annuliruetsya.

Simultaneously disappeared opportunity to order additional packages, subscribers are offered "dozhech has already ordered and paid traffic. Accordingly, offended many: not booked in advance the traffic - there is no Internet until April 28, ordered a very large amount - to spent the extra money, because April 28, prices will be lower. People who pre-order large volumes of traffic, apparently the unit and the extent of financial loss from unused packets are small, but here it's not the amount.Disappointing fact of the purchase today of what tomorrow will be cheaper, and the reason for the disturbance - the inability to use the prepaid traffic after April 28. Technical capability to maintain the coexistence of two systems is not provided, but we hope that in MegaFon find a way to offset the costs of paid subscribers, but not used by traffic. The more so that such subscribers will probably be a little bit.

Slide Preparation

With the introduction of new GPRS-services and lower prices for the traffic the number of active users would increase. New online service for automatic configuration greatly simplifies the phone, saving time and free subscription service from the long and tortuous telephone consultations. Now, to configure the necessary services, it is enough to enter the site Megafon to "Phones / Phone Settings", specify the rate and your phone model (select the picture or on the list) and send the necessary settings in your phone. After a few seconds the automatic settings come to the phone - and all that is needed to a subscriber is to click the OK button (or "take") to save them. After this phone is ready to work with new services.

In one form or another service automatically download the settings and there from other operators, they can be sent to the device from the site or ordered by calling the abonsluzhbu. However, the version of MegaFon much easier: all options carefully collected and grouped into a single interface, no need to do to look and something to investigate. The database to date more than 360 phone models and promised prompt completion of the list as new models. The system really works and the "correct" settings come. Some roughness remained, but they certainly correct. For example, experience has shown that, if necessary, correct the error in the settings of a certain model can be a day or two to disappear from the list. Amused by single-minded desire to get the system settings service, "Mobile TV" in the old Ericsson T39m, phone SMS-ku obediently swallowed the settings and even created a profile. Perhaps the only negative - on the site could not find the settings in a familiar tabular format. Perhaps they still be left in any separate section.