Long time no material caused a number of indignant responses. Australia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, Scandinavia ... It is noteworthy that many of the dozens of letters of only two or three came from the people of Russia. In this article I tried to experience not one of the country to talk about some problematic aspects of free incoming calls - apparently to avoid confusion, I should at the very beginning of the article state this in bold. Most wrote to "try" the material to their situation and commented on my "inaccuracies", "complete nonsense", "nonsense" and even "chauvinism" ... In general, try to fix in the future clearly indicate geographic location (or lack thereof). Thank you all for the feedback - I learned many new and interesting, and emotional responses suggests indifferent attitude to this subject. The "bottom line" 90% of the letters - the idea of fairness and consistency pays principle someone who calls the tune (ring), and it is impossible not to agree. From a consumer perspective, mobile services legislative introduction of free incoming calls to eliminate the obvious rubbish: why should I pay for someone's desire to communicate with me? Doubly hurt when calling someone with whom I do not want to talk. With regard to profitability / disadvantages of this system for the operator, there is sometimes expressed diametrically opposed views. Two typical examples: "Stop robbing for every call! How much do you pay MTS and Beeline for an article? "And" When the calls on my phone is going to pay someone who is calling, I can leave my number to colleagues, customers, the company where I work, etc. The operator will work on me a thousand times more, without raising the subscription fee and / or the cost of outgoing - "free" incoming USEFUL OPERATOR!!! However, not much point in a discussion on this topic, I do not see - the operators have somehow will take care of the profitability of their businesses.
For the population as a whole (you and me) more importantly, as a result of the reform, there is some redistribution of expenditure on mobile communications, in most cases for airtime starting to pay not only the subscribers of cellular networks. Which, incidentally, is an added incentive "omobilivaniya": if the outbound call to the handset will still have to pay, what sense to give up the convenience of mobile communication? The more so that calls from your mobile phone, even to other networks are often cheaper than from a landline phone.
Now a question of increasing the cost of an outgoing call to mobile phone roaming. Indeed, it looks like a bug: a call to a local mobile number is always charged as a local call, regardless of the location of the caller. I was misled information from more than respectable Sydney newspaper "The Sydney Morning Herald", which in its issue of October 1 whole band was devoted to discussing issues related to charging for calls to mobile phones (anyone can find themselves with a "seditious" statement ). Guilt that is not rechecked, I do not deny it, and assiduously sprinkle ashes on his head a second week.Special thanks to Yuri Papakinu (recently moved to Australia), who at different venues Runet actively discussed this error: thanks to his active life indifferent Mobile-Review certainly gained a lot of new visitors.
Here is a comparison of the situation in Ukraine before and after free incoming calls on the example of the same operator Kyivstar.
To free members:
- the cost of outgoing minutes in Ukraine (in our case, most operators call a mobile in your city or in another region is the same) for contract customers amounted to a maximum of 36 cents per minute (expensive tariff packages, as well as pronunciation of a large of number of minutes even cheaper )
- cost of a call from a landline to a mobile phone is about 5 cents, with no per-second billing
After a free member:
- the cost of outbound minutes to Ukraine in any tariff package this operator is not risen, the only price increase touched-up fee (from 3 to 5 cents).
- cost of a call from a landline to a mobile phone has risen to about 21 cents.
- the cost of the forwarded call from a direct "federal" number now stands at the same 21 cents.
- the cost of calls has not changed (set-up fee of 2 cents for the first moment it is not essential, in general)
- the cost of incoming calls is not really just moved to the caller, and fell as much as before the total cost for both subscribers amounted to 41 cents, now 21 cents.
- the cost of incoming calls to mobile subscribers on his direct number and actually fell from 36 to 21 cents, as if he had previously paid as for incoming calls (36 cents) now pays as a redirect (21 cents).
- UMC - a small price increase for calls to Ukraine, but to compensate for the bias towards inbound operator in less than a month introduced a 30-50% discount on calls in their region, so that the real relationship is hardly more expensive.
- Golden Telecom - the company lowered its tariffs for calls, and neither one additional item, they also were not elevated.
- WellCOM - fares have remained unchanged, but this operator is an opportunity instead of forwarding fees (21 cents per minute) to pay $ 10 a month and receive all incoming calls to direct dial number for free.
- DCC - since this statement is intended primarily for mnogogovoryaschih customers and has a high subscription fee had not increased as tariffs, and direct calls to a landline number in addition are not paid.
"Look, as is done in Belarus - again, without any problems. For the owner of GSM cell phone free incoming ... When calling from a fixed line - the call goes through 8. A fool not to guess that this is a very charged call! Well, coming at us a long time ago though billed through the city, even through the "eight". Even the so-called "phone sex" is also a "figure eight". In my view everything is simple and cheerful. And then divorced .... Federal - not the federal ...
"... Everything is done to the state earned more without imposing any additional taxes on this business. While all landlines - State property - that is the same hole, which will all fall through.State once again robs us all, only this time a little trickier. I'm from the country - in our farm before other countries have introduced free incoming To be precise, we generally do not have competition in the telecommunications market and free incoming appeared along with the first operator of GSM, which was the only one until this year. Now we have more of MTS, but the joy of this, no one has increased. Prices - at least 2 times higher than in any neighboring country. No super-Jeans are always monthly fee. "
And, finally, about the phrase "this number is not available for IP-telephony (in the English version, of course) that I've heard several times when trying to call from Australia to Moscow for" curve "number of MTS. I was asked "to leave on their conscience," a statement of the existence of such a phrase in the IP-telephony - please see for yourself. Some amount of money left on the card - I already wrote that to pronounce the end of it I did not succeed.
