Curse the day the quality of the Moscow city telephone network makes it possible "for old time's sake, many positive changes are visible to the naked eye. And what we usually happens when a serious increase in the quality of service? That's right - the service becomes more expensive. The question is, how much more expensive. So, meet new payphone rates MGTS and mentally prepared ... 
All this technical and service grace is worth the money, this reminds us regularly increasing subscription fee. And not only the fee, the array of commercial services to the telephone network. Revenue JSC Moscow City Telephone Network ", calculated according to Russian accounting standards, rose at the end of 2004 to 17.3 per cent to 14.981 billion rubles from 12.775 billion rubles in 2003.
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Moscow City Telephone Network - one of the largest not only in Russia but in Europe, local wire communication companies. Constant and priority MGTS - providing quality and affordable telephony to millions of Muscovites. Dvadtsatitysyachny personnel of the company serves approximately 4.3 million subscribers. The telephone density in Moscow conforms to the European level: the 100 residents of the capital for more than 50 phones MGTS. On the web there are about 600 telephone stations, and their number is growing every year. Payphone Network company has to date more than 18,000 vehicles. Currently, the share of MGTS Moscow fixed communication market is about 80%. The dynamic development of the company is stable economic situation, the planned growth in revenues and sales volume of services.
So far - only in payphones
That's payphone network of "more than 18,000 vehicles" we'll talk.It is in light of "the planned growth of incomes." Information from MGTS:Moscow City Telephone Network starts selling phone cards for payphones MGTS per-second charging from 31 seconds. Cards will be issued with a face value of 600, 1500 and 3000 units, where one unit equals one second of intercity telephone calls.
The cost of cards: 54, 90 and 150 rubles; denominations: 600, 1500 and 3000 units respectively. Or in terms more familiar to us a minute - 10, 25 and 50 minutes of local calls. Accordingly, the higher denomination cards, the cheaper the minute payphone communication - from 3 to 5.4 rubles (prices include VAT). Phone cards-per-minute billing (par 10, 20, 50 and 100 units) will be accepted for payment along with maps of the new tariff until they expire. Will there still produced the old card - is unclear. It is also unclear when all the pay phones "will be taught" to accept the new cards.
Who said that mobile communication is more expensive stationary?
Pay attention to the image maps in the beginning of this article. Major label "per second from 31 seconds" is clearly seen in a pretty yellow card for a blue (at least cute), the text on the outer side of the card is missing altogether. And now let's play a game show: One of these cards are issued by the minimum quantities for collectors, the second - is designed for mass use. Question - what? Try to guess in 31 seconds.Thus, the minimum cost of a local call in most "democratic" 54-ruble map is 2 rubles 70 kopecks. For this money will be quickly (30 seconds), say something like, "Do not go so far from home, I forgot the keys on the table!". Let's compare the new payphone rates MGTS with prepaid-tariff major mobile operators. Prices have been converted at the rate of 27.8.
Cost of calls
(In euro, including VAT) Coin telephone-600 (MTGS) Coin telephone-1500 (MTGS) Coin telephone-3000 (MTGS) Just Rates (MF-Moscow) Bi + BOOM (BeeLine), super-Jeans (ITT) principles for outgoing calls per second with 31 seconds to 31 seconds per second per second to 31 seconds Every minute per second with a 2-minute per second with a 2-minute cost of minutes of local calls (nominal) 5.40 3.60 3.00 3.00 5.25 * 5.25 * cost of the card (phone or SIM-card) 54.00 90.00 150.00 90.00 from 60.00 from 49.00 from the amount on the card balance 54.00 90.00 150.00 100.00 139.00 139 , 00 minutes Cost of local calls (actual) ** 5.40 3.60 3.00 2.70 2.27 *** 1.85
* The declared cost of a minute in subsequent replenishments of the account (instead of buying a new SIM-card).However, even in the case of a deposit in prepaid-tariff Beeline and MTS is a real minute price is a bit below par at the expense of gifts / bonuses (bonus of up to 15% in the Beeline and gift $ 1.67 per month in MTS).
** The actual cost per minute counted in the case of identical circuits using SIM-cards and phone cards MGTS, ie only for outgoing calls and the "disposable": he bought - a reprimand - bought the following telephone number is not important. The comparison is quite logical, since just so used payphones.
*** The price is already the second minute of Bi + BOOM 50% lower, ie Real average real price will be less than a minute
Summary
- For users of mobile phones (or at least having a mobile phone) MGTS payphones are unreasonable luxury. Even though the new "semi-per-second (31 th second) billing.
- From the standpoint of their consumer qualities of the new payphone rates MGTS may be demanded except among the guests of Moscow, who for one reason or another can not or do not want to show your passport when buying a SIM-card.
- It may seem that in MGTS consciously and purposefully decided to start blowing abonbaz mobile operators. In fact - hardly. Let's see how active will be promoted and explained the new fees MGTS. If the new cards will simply replace the old, 90% of users either will not delve at all, or not guess about 30 seconds of obligatory payment. And they will call from payphones, proud of his own thrift. And even the remaining 10% of the quick-witted, few will scrupulous calculations.
- Finally, the fact that mass adoption of such billing once again confirms the technological readiness MGTS move to per-minute (it turns out, even on per-second!) Charging calls. We are waiting, sir?