The results of the action "Call for MegaFon!

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We begin by expressing my sincere gratitude: thank you all responded to the request to call! Special thanks to those who did not spare his own time (in many cases the call was not easy) and those who did not spare the money to call a mobile phone. Particularly pleased to have been getting calls from other cities and countries. Slightly annoyed a lot of "empty" calls, because wanted a clear understanding: network failure or a person has satisfied his curiosity (managed to get through) and immediately after the response has pressed the button "lights out". However, more than half the time to hear the background sounds (voices, street noise, etc.). It was obviously a certain amount of "control" phone calls when the callers seem to be satisfied by the fact of the appearance of long beeps in the handset (hands-free operated in avtopodnyatiya tubes after five seconds).

Battery is fully charged P800, all counters displayed in the zero garniturka hands-free is found in a junkyard cables and connected. Actually due to hands-free is the beginning of the experience and suffered: forgot all about that when stuck in the headset speaker phone off completely. As a result, four calls missed while having breakfast. Other technical problems the plan did not raise, except for one case of drop calls (unsuccessfully pressed the wheel joystick).

Initially planned to major movements in Moscow, but has not developed. That same day, after a long wait is finally deigned to come repairmen from the LAN (a week sitting with almost no Internet) and a couple of hours or tortured innocent computer - their very existence alerted to machine two network cards. In the end, nothing criminal is not found, replaced the router in the attic and it worked. So we had to limit minor movements in their area. Incidentally, it is for the better, because task was to check the quality of dial-up. Now from experience I can say quite clearly: to try to simultaneously test the coverage in different parts of the city was absolutely unreal. For such experiments require very different resources and more than a dozen people. In this case, was tested only one function (the quality of dial-up), but rather is tested carefully and without the influence of any additional factors.

Rash was almost promised reconciliation with the official details MegaFon - my mistake. Honestly, even had no idea that the rates of family "Light" giving details not provided in principle.Have to rely on log file smartphone benefit Megafonovsky AON fulfilled qualitatively and all calls are painted per second. As stated, the phone numbers partially "erased", ie indicated only the first three digits after the code.



Results in figures

• Total number of registered and shortchange calls - 150. Calls in recent days and 8 am were not considered after 23:20 and the next day - the same way.
• Number of full-fledged talks held - 101 (excluding the test calls, "empty" connections lasting 2-4 seconds, nedozvonov and four missed calls)
• Total connection time - 4 hours 25 minutes 53 seconds, including incoming calls - 3 hours 36 minutes. The total time of "empty" value the connections in 75 seconds, ie a general "clean" talk time is 4 hours 24 minutes and 48 seconds.
• The average talk time was 2 minutes and 19.5 seconds (excluding the 29 minutes 59 seconds a single test of an outgoing call).
• Expended money in the account - $ 14.95 (excluding time spent on calls outside the test interval).
• Weighted average price minute - $ 0.0627 (excluding the cost of one test an outgoing call), a large number of short communication sessions offset by a sufficient number of free calls from MegaFon-Moscow.

Shared experiences and complaints

"Empty" link and clearly "control" proring few spoil the overall picture, because behind them may be hiding some real failures. I hope everyone confronted with the fact that "dumped" at the time of establishing a call connection is not too lazy to find your call to the table and report it in our forum or by letter by email.

At least 30% of the calls were from the Megafon network, a lot of networks Beeline and MTS. After listening to voices from the different tubes can say with certainty: The unit should be chosen, including the parameter "quality / tone of voice." Few people think about it when purchasing, and the difference is impressive, and I'm talking about the characteristics of concrete pipes, not of network defects / noise.

Voice quality was generally very pleased with a couple of times it was just perfect (apparently calls "successful" or just good ATS). Ring of Nizhny Novgorod (Network Tele-2) noted with some surprise that they had heard when local calls are often worse. Falling out of frames, gurgling, and other "charms" met 2-3 times, the famous "echo" failed to listen to never (!). Frankly unpleasant conversation was only with two people: one phone call from Boston via IP-telephony, the other - from a moving train. Almost every time I specifically was interested in his guest voice quality negative feedback from anyone not heard. True, once in your question "but what you can hear the voice?" in response was: "Nothing of this is quite bodrenky!

Several times I heard complaints about dial-up is not the first time, once was a worrying complaint informant network a subscriber is not served. " Complained about the general situation with dial-up (from second to sixth time), criticized coverage in Kolomna and praised - in Serpukhov, complained about the poor dial-up at the Yaroslavl highway on August 21 and so on Two or three complaints about the poor and "spotty" coverage in the suburbs.One subscriber MegaFon not too lazy to check the connection from my cell phone three times (morning, afternoon and evening), it complained about the poor dial-up / treatment in Pushkin and lamented that "today, for some reason, everything is fine, but a couple of days ago ... . All to remember and write down immediately with the exact dates / time of day and the coordinates of the problem areas was not possible, please send a subscription service with as much details about the problem areas. In general, most complaints were for "spotty" coverage in the Moscow region, dial-up is not the first attempt and the periodic "subscriber not available" in Moscow.

Speed ​​and reliability of SMS delivery is not checked. Although a "session" of correspondence took place: one who made the "control" (empty) call immediately wrote about it and we exchanged a pair of triple-SMS-ca. In this particular case, the time of delivery MegaFon MegaFon, MTS was second, but that any claim on the basis of such "statistics" would be ridiculous.

By the maximum duration of a call bezobryvnogo claims in this case was not. The length of one call was 24:58 ("retreat" in normal mode, at the end of the conversation), another test an outgoing call was forcibly broken system after 29 minutes and 59 seconds.

Shortcomings - explicit and possible

Outgoing calls, little has been done (not time), but in one case at 10 pm to dial was only the third attempt. In this case, the famous "trehtonalki" Heard was not, just reset the phone to standby mode after a couple of seconds after the call attempt. Complaints of a similar behavior of different devices and heard from other subscribers.

Once the network is not identified the short beeps, and the connection is not terminated. However, on hearing sirens were clearly non-standard length.

Presumably at 14:26 the phone as if unregistered in the network, although in appearance to the display in standby mode, it will not change. For incoming calls with caller MGTS heard frequent short beeps after a very long (10 seconds) pause, MTS and Beeline receive auto-response subscriber is temporarily unavailable. " Outgoing calls do not pass, ending trehtonalkoy after a long pause. When I try to seek balance in * 102 # system gave out Error. After rebooting the phone (off / on) everything was fine in normal mode, the awareness of the fact of failure, the control calls in both directions and reboot took about 20 minutes.

There have been three calls in a row with, it seems, the same number (not identified with the indication withheld, ie with very high probability in the regime included anti-AON). Voice callers hear is not the past, in all three cases present quite easy, but clearly discernible murmur, the connection is not torn. May fail, even though I have the impression that someone decided to find out whether can connect three times in a row. I hope people will respond and write in the forum.

Ring with Non-Stop 500 complained of inexplicable behavior of his regular phone Kurskaya metro area: in this place is this Non-Stop does not work the first 10-15 minutes after falling into a certain "zone" (not call), Olayty, Fix and etc. call normal. Directly some individual "Bermuda Triangle" for a single unit.

On the fun

Jokes were told in a vexing little - only four pieces. Well, okay, not for the sake of this experiment was started.

Two calls from Vladivostok.The first time is normally communicated, the second call with the same number - apparently accidentally pressed (in your pocket? ") Button. I managed to hear part of a lively discussion of the first call, including the phrase "no, it's cool dude sitting there and figuring out whether vaasche call Megaphone. Okay, we will assume a compliment.

One caller was referred to a certain number of well-wishers - a man clearly had no idea where to call, the conversation began with the phrase "I then said to call and complain."

One caller from MTS network has started a conversation with genuine amazement: "This is what I got through to MegaFon? Right here and so, the first time?? And I said ...." No comment, but reminded the famous "we have not read Solzhenitsyn, but his books strongly condemn!"

Conclusions

But their is something just not and will not - make conclusions yourself. As has already been written, the experiment is completely transparent, everyone can find their call in the plate to compare writing with personal experiences and share with us the results of the comparison. Not to get through once again we ask to check the time, attempts to sign and write about it. Of course, if according to the log file test apparatus at that time was free. Thanks again to all participants, will be waiting for comment from MegaFon.

Log file of calls in the form of MS Word (177 kb) or ZIP-file (17 KB).