Cellular communication in Crimea: operators, profitable tariffs

Crimea is a great place not only for summer holidays on the Black Sea coast. On the peninsula are picturesque places and the most beautiful cultural sites, which are worth looking at. But in view of recent events, many people ask themselves: "What cellular operators are working in the Crimea and how are things going with telephone conversations and the Internet from the Big Three?"

We will analyze each operator available on the peninsula separately and more thoroughly so that everyone can decide for himself: to take a sim card with a convenient tariff from a loved provider or take care of its change in advance.

Megaphone

Cellular communication in Crimea from "Megaphone" allows you to connect a special option "Crimea" (incompatible with the tariff plan "Around the World"). It operates on the territory of the Crimean peninsula and in the surrounding areas, provided that the subscriber is in the mobile network of the mobile provider "K-Telecom", that is, with the WIN MegaFon identifier on the screen of your gadget. In order to find out what cellular service works in Crimea and on your phone, you need to go to the gadget settings and in the menu items responsible for the reception, put "choose the current provider" (the menu branches may differ depending on the operating system).

Naturally, the option "Crimea" can not be used for ordinary calls to numbers of Ukrainian telecoms operators. In this case, calls will be calculated according to the standard tariff for roaming: 35 rubles per minute of conversation and 6 rubles for a short message sent.

Reviews and prices

They say about the connection from the "Megaphone" is not very good: many do not like the point of coverage: it seems to be a good signal, but while you go the same 100 meters, the connection will disappear, it will appear, and so on the whole peninsula. Yes, and "Personal Cabinet" with great reluctance (for some reason) changes the services and tariffs from one to another.

Prices for mobile Internet from the company is not very happy: 10 rubles for one megabyte of traffic - it's too expensive. And judging by what kind of cellular communication in the Crimea from "Megaphone" (frequent interruptions, delays and high costs), it is better to look at a more loyal operator. Nevertheless, the company promises to "fix" all the critical shortcomings, but the ardent fans of the "green" can only wait patiently.

"Beeline"

Cellular communication in the Crimea from "Beeline" is provided on the basis of the same network "K-Telecom" within intranetwork roaming. Last year, the company launched the "Farewell roaming" campaign for "All for ..." tariff plans, thanks to which roaming was disabled throughout the territory of the Russian Federation. But there is one nuisance: Kamchatka region along with the Crimean peninsula were included in the list of exceptions, therefore in these territories there is a normal intra-network roaming by standard charging.

But fans should not be disappointed - for all those who like to travel around Russia, and in Crimea in particular, there is a special option - "My country", which, judging by the responses, can quite compete with other providers.

Cellular communication in Crimea with the option "My country" is provided on the following terms:

• Connection - 25 rubles (one-time payment);
• 3 rubles per minute of the incoming call for the first minute, the subsequent time is not charged (free of charge);
• 3 rubles per minute outgoing call with per-minute billing;
• 3 rubles for outgoing short message;
• Incoming SMS - free of charge;
• A subscription fee is not provided.

As well as other cellular operators in the Crimea, Beeline provides the "Personal Cabinet" service where it is easy to connect or disable this option. You can also call 0611 to the operator's support center if you have difficulties with the "Personal Cabinet".

the Internet

To fans of the World Wide Web, the company offers two options to choose from - "Planet Internet" and "The most profitable Internet in roaming" with prepayment and postpayment respectively. Both tariffs do not require any manipulation in the same "Personal account" (activation / deactivation) and are connected when the device is roaming. The price of a standard package of 30 MB will cost 150 rubles, after exceeding the traffic limit you will have to buy megabytes of 5 rubles per unit.

If cellular communication in Crimea is used mainly for surfing, it makes sense to activate the service "Internet Roaming Week", where for seven days 300 Mb of traffic are provided. If you could not keep within the weekly framework and exhausted traffic earlier, then the cost of each subsequent megabyte will have to pay 5 rubles per 1 Mb.

User Reviews

User reviews about the Crimean "Beeline" are twofold: it seems to be comfortable talking and the tariffs are more or less acceptable, but the Internet very often frees, lags and generally behaves in a strange way, and such a "bouquet" can be obtained even sitting under the tower Operator, which is very strange. Nevertheless, fans and users of "Beeline" on the peninsula is very much, but still the company is inferior in popularity to the next respondent.

Crimea, mobile: MTS

Owners of SIM cards from MTS, getting to the Crimean peninsula, automatically go to the home roaming zone, which entails a significant increase in communication prices. The company for such cases actively advertises a very interesting service "Everywhere as at home." The main and extremely useful advantage of this service is free incoming calls from any Russian region. Tariffication of the outgoing minute in this case will be 3 rubles. For connection, you will have to pay 30 rubles once and pay the daily subscription fee , depending on the localization of the main SIM card (for example, Moscow - 7 rubles / day).

It is worth mentioning separately that the service is not automatically disconnected, even when the subscriber returned to the home region. You can remove the service by using the "Personal Cabinet" or by sending a short message to the number 111 with the text 3333 (USSD-request - * 111 * 3333 #).

Also, for those who receive incoming calls more often than outgoing ones, it will be superfluous to get acquainted with the option "One country", where, similarly to "Everywhere as at home", incoming calls are not charged, but, unlike the latter, there is an opportunity to work with All tariff plans, and this, judging by the feedback of users, a weighty plus. You can activate the service by dialing * 808 # or USSD-combination - * 111 * 808 #.

Access to the Internet

As for tariffs for mobile Internet, then, judging by the numerous laudatory reviews, they are the most "delicious" here. It is enough to take advantage of the convenient service of "SuperBIT", which operates on the territory of the whole of Russia. Instead of any daily surfing restrictions, the company offers a monthly package of 3 GB. The price tag can vary slightly and depends on the home region of the SIM card: Moscow - 350 rubles / month, and the regions - about 200 rubles / month. Activate the option can be a combination of * 628 #. Before performing any actions on the connection, be sure to check which mobile communication operator in the Crimea is available to you at the moment, so that later there will be no misunderstandings.

Summarizing

In terms of mobile communication, the Crimean peninsula is still a mansion. Moreover, even the "Big Three" is forced to fulfill its obligations ahead of subscribers through the Crimean provider WinMobile.

As representatives of the companies explain, they are simply afraid of imposing sanctions on the part of the European Union: if the home Russian network "enters" into the territory of the Crimean peninsula, then it is fraught with significant losses and weighty fines. Therefore, until the boom around the Crimea ceases and appropriate amendments are made, there can be no question of a qualitative and accessible connection.

Nevertheless, the "troika" promises to resolve the situation by the next season, and to provide its client with affordable, and most importantly, high-quality communication, so that the inhabitants of our vast country can take full advantage of all the benefits and benefits of civilization. We hope that this will be so.