The results of the campaign are available here>>> August 30, we run an experiment to assess the quality of MegaFon-Moscow: Call the number 7926 160-1816, help yourself and your comrades to make the right choice!
Appears in MegaFon-Moscow service plan FIX with only pays for the connection can be regarded as a landmark event: not only incoming, but outgoing calls at a fixed price irrespective of the duration of the call. While advertising "conversation of any duration" disingenuous, pledged in MegaFon technical limitation of length conversation is about 30 minutes. However, it is such a limit is a default-configuration of network infrastructure many leading equipment manufacturers and, consequently, a threshold of 30 minutes set in the networks of most of the GSM-operators. Reasons for the existence of such a threshold number, the two main - to reduce the inefficient use of network resources and protect the subscriber from "getting the money in case of erroneous nerazryva connection.
Despite the relatively recent emergence on the Moscow market rate FIX surely goes to sales leaders in the prepaid-group rates of MegaFon. According to well-informed source in the company, the volume of daily implementation of the "boxes" FIX O'Layt and has almost caught up and "bias" of consumer demand in the direction of FIX in the offing. In this context raises two questions: whether a network of MegaFon-Moscow "digest" dramatically increased number of subscribers for a long time talking and what would be the reaction of other GSM-operators to the increased volume of non tariffing of traffic?
On the first issue - leadership MegaFon-Moscow has expressed cautious optimism. During the summer months, the network was severely enlarged and modernized, a few days will launch a thousandth anniversary base station in the Moscow region. Average call duration subscribers FIX close to the calculated, ie we can hope for is that marketers are not mistaken in their assessments.
The second question we asked yesterday, Nikolai Pryanishnikov, Vice-President of VimpelCom. According to Nicholas, is currently being actively discussed issues of mutual interest of all operators. Position VimpelCom - the operator should receive a fee for terminating the incoming call, and the achievement of such an arrangement is quite real. Regarding the position of the Department of Communications, it has already begun to work closely on the concept of attention to detail CPP (Calling Party Pays - Payment of calls by the caller).
Why it took the experiment
Performance Evaluation of MegaFon-Moscow puzzle its polarity.Expressed diametrically opposed views: on "Everything is wonderful!" to "Awful, communications," no ", it is impossible to get through." Leaving behind the scenes famous aphorism, the question of "mouse injected and wept, but they continued to eat a cactus, you can assume that the truth lies somewhere in between. But I would like to understand more precisely to a position of the point that most "middle" to the long axis [-/+]. We decided to try to assess the efficiency of the network with a primitive-consumer point of view and understand how the quality of the network meet the expectations of the average user. And offer to do it by visitors Mobile-Review, for even the most "correct" and motivated by statistical calculations can not replace although limited, but my personal experience.
Organization and procedure of the
- Are invited to call the number +7926 160-1816 and dial-up and assess the quality of communication. In the case of a successful connection, you can tell an anecdote on the topic of mobile communication, ask a question or complain about the bitter fraction of the subscriber. The first - is preferable.
- If they wanted to estimate the duration of the connection request bezobryvnogo much talk not to delay - it is important to collect statistics on the maximum possible number of communication sessions.
- In the case of nedozvona please immediately try again and write down the exact time of the attempt and the symptoms ("busy", "subscriber not available", the silence in the tube, etc.). Subsequently, the search this time interval, in detail, which we publish. If at this point the machine was free and the network service area - please write in the mail indicating the exact time of the attempt and, preferably, a phone number.
- The time of the experience - Monday 30 August from 08:00 to 23:00
- Sealed "box" with the rate MegaFon-FIX and payment of traffic courtesy of Salon communications Kalanchevke ", http://www.megafongsm.org, selective breeding facilities was carried out by the" educated bet "- ie, took at the first available, but specifically did not choose (like not very difficult to remember the number).
- SIM-card installed in smartphone SonyEricsson P800. The reason - the need to preserve the memory unit logs all incoming and outgoing calls for a whole day of the experiment.
- Location - how complicated, but "seen" the apparatus of several distant points of Moscow is guaranteed.
- Call waiting, voice mail, call forwarding and other tricks will not be used.
- When analyzing the results will be compared to the logs of calls in the device, the data detailed report and their own notes indicating the exact time (and space) when the machine was out of network coverage.
- Full details of all calls made and received will be posted on the website (of course, the phone numbers of callers will be erased)
Of course, the company MegaFon-Moscow without the knowledge of an experiment, the day of publication (Friday) and experimental day (Monday), chosen specifically: to have time to inform all interested persons to participate and at the same time eliminate suspicions particularly worried-citizens that the technicians had to assign MegaFon published number, a mythical "super-priority".
We are in no way do not pretend to objectivity and statistical significance of the experience.This is - just an attempt to assess the relationship of Moscow's "Elephant" for themselves and to provide such an opportunity (albeit in truncated form) to all comers. And so what conclusions do - will decide on their results, the experiment is absolutely "transparent" for all participants.
The results of the campaign are available here>>>
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