The story about the dangers of roaming

Roaming - a necessary evil for any user of the mobile. The analogy is quite simple, it prompted me to a friend in Facebook: everything looks like the cost of gasoline for cars. In Russia, one liter of fuel is worth the money in Europe - a very different. But the differences are not very dramatic. Since roaming is much cooler - it's as if the house you paid for a liter of fuel a dollar, and in Europe - a hundred. Moreover, the quality of gasoline does not change, filling, too, like the same.

Of course, this all troubled. Moreover, the Russian authorities with a lazy attempt to even build, and to persuade the Russian telecom operators to do something with this problem.

Of course, the price of roaming is always significantly higher than Russian. And, when it comes to the CIS countries, the lowest prices on telecom services will be the case if your phone is registered and will work on the network belonging to ... For example, Ukraine is a subsidiary of MTS and Beeline, in Kazakhstan - Beeline, and m. Dr.. Incidentally, the subsidiaries have MegaFon except in Tajikistan, not - hence, a price tag you should take a very careful. To avoid confusion, as I said, we are talking about using your normal SIM card. Not local, not tourist, and it is your.

If you love to connect various traffic packages (packages of SMS, minutes, data traffic ), in roaming about this can be forgotten at once: they're not acting. Likewise - there are, but for other prices, and they must be connected separately. Here, incidentally, is a very interesting point, virtually guaranteeing the subscriber ... For the tariff modifier, which makes it possible to reduce the cost of incoming calls, you have to pay twice - for the connection (well, this is understandable ) and the monthly fee for each day of use.

Moreover, often the service is unlimited in duration - works not yet disabled. Against this can seriously burn - there are such services up to 600 rubles. per month. But after a few trips to remember that all modifiers must be individually disabled. Do not cut off - mobile expense essentially ...

And because the operator does not offer after his return to ...

In my experience, I note that it is necessary to look carefully the conditions of tariff concessions in roaming - often they only apply to work in a network and a very specific operator. Arranged for someone from the ... And in a country that often, operators 4.3. Connected poor man, a subscriber who can not read the fine print in advertising, not to the operator to automatically select the network - pay more.

It is very costly item of expenditure - data- traffic. Even if you're not an avid Internet users, and does not hang in the social networks around the clock, on arrival home, you can pass out of the roaming costs. Especially if your tariff - postpaid and you do not know how to control their costs in real-time.

Sometimes this is because the cost of each megabyte, ... Typical rates for mobile modems - 1-3 rubles. For ... per megabyte of information.

Abroad, the minimum rate that would have introduced a ... per megabyte (and even then only for 19 countries, all the rest is still ) and now have to pay up to 750 rubles. for ... Moreover, the most unpleasant - it is rounded to 100 kb. Asked the network to MMSku or read e-mail - just give 02.03 USD. Even if in fact received only 5-10 KB of data.

By the way, ... The offer is a certain period and what will happen next is unknown.

And spending limits on this service for overseas voyages to establish a realistic. Well, at least at the MTS is possible through personal study prohibit a GPRS-roaming - it helps even if ...

By the way, we must carefully watch over their GPRS-Internet settings - sometimes they are confused and in the subscriber network goes via WAP. Where charging is a hundred times more - it's not a joke.

What other trouble waiting for you in roaming? .

If you are a user of the credit, you can not just fall off ... Roaming accounts often come with a delay - you can surprise write-offs in 3-4 days after returning home: the operator is not stealing money, and accounts from foreign partners ... Also - the lack of per second billing for voice calls, increased time in the SIM-card is connected to a subscriber who has been blocked for lack of funds (pre-paid tariffs), as well as banal. lack of communication. Well forget your service contract with a local ISP connection - this is still happening. Oh, I almost forgot, SMS-messages are also very expensive - a minimum of 15 rubles for each message.

So be careful when abroad, or return home you can expect a very unpleasant surprise in the form of an astronomical bill for Us.





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