How you can save on mobile communications. Before a long trip, take care of roaming
Change the tariff
Break up with the operator
Disable unnecessary services
Stop SMS Use free internet abroad
Chat on Skype
Choose per minute billing
Transfer your loved ones to one operator
Give up your home phone
Earn cashback
Are you still using the tariff you signed up for 15 years ago? But this is so unprofitable! Operators regularly change tariffs, and if you keep an eye on latest news, on mobile communications You can save several thousand rubles a year. There are other ways to pay less for phone calls. Today we are talking about ten saving techniques for Russian subscribers.
1. Change the tariff
So, the first and most obvious way to reduce communication costs is to abandon the old tariff. High competition in the market forces operators to use various tricks that allow customers to save significantly and innovate as much as possible. budget tariffs. To change the tariff, you need to contact the communication center, support service, or simply express your desire to personal account or mobile application.
2. Break up with the operator
Study the current offers of mobile operators - perhaps you will find a more favorable tariff for you from competitors. At the same time, there is no need to be afraid of losing your number: since 2014, Russia has had a rule according to which you can change the operator and keep your usual phone number. Typically, this service is provided free of charge or for a nominal fee.
3. Disable unnecessary services
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11 bad financial habits that you need to quit before 30. Usually the list of connected services can be found through mobile app, but if this causes you difficulties, contact your operator's showroom or support service. In number paid services may include, for example, caller ID, voice mail, a melody instead of beeps or a subscription to entertainment resources. Keep in mind: initially the service may be free, but then they will start charging you subscription fee, and quite a big one. Carefully monitor expenses by regularly asking the operator for details or checking your personal account.
4. Give up SMS To save money, you can give up SMS messages in favor of free messengers- WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram and others. You can also communicate through social networks, which will also help you spend less.
5. Use free internet abroad
When arriving in a foreign country, immediately turn off data transmission on your phone. Otherwise, you will be forced to pay crazy money for Internet roaming. Plus, most hotels, restaurants and airports offer free (or inexpensive) Wi-Fi. If you still need constant access to the Internet, find out about the best offers from your operator for traveling abroad. Often such services can be paid for with points. And if you are going abroad for a long time, it will be more economical to purchase a SIM card from a local operator.
6. Chat on Skype
Often, a video or audio call on Skype or another similar messenger is much cheaper than a phone call. This is especially true for those who like to communicate with loved ones for hours on end.
7. Choose per-minute billing
This advice, on the contrary, is suitable for subscribers who are used to speaking briefly and clearly. If you only talk on the phone for a few minutes a day, paying per minute for calls will be cheaper. And if you give up mobile Internet, the savings will be simply fantastic.
8. Transfer your loved ones to one operator
Friends, I suggest we talk about current topic today - savings on mobile communications.
The development of telecommunications and intense competition among mobile operators contribute to the emergence of profitable offers for cellular communication services on the market, but you still often have to pay a lot. Especially now, when the crisis has hit the wallet. But you want to use not only a mobile phone, but also a tablet, a laptop... It’s too early to give up the usual conveniences, it’s better to optimize costs. Instructions for optimizing mobile communications costs are at your service :)
1. Analyze your expenses. Details
First, figure out where your money is going. Master your personal account on your operator’s website, and if there is a corresponding mobile application, install it on your smartphone or tablet. A personal account is the fastest and easiest way to manage communication services at any time, from anywhere and without unnecessary calls to the operator. In your personal account, request details of expenses for the last few months. If there is anything on your bill that is unclear, please call contact center operator and clarify any ambiguities, or better yet, go to his nearest office, because your money is at stake.
What is important to understand from the details. Which mobile operators do you often call? Which calls are more – local or long-distance? What do you do most often? Call, write SMS or surf the Internet. Use the analysis results when choosing a tariff.
2. Choose a tariff based on your needs
Each operator offers a wide range of tariffs; their descriptions indicate what they are for. There are tariffs for active communication; for frequent calls to your operator’s numbers; for calls to numbers different operators; for calls to other cities and CIS countries. There are complex tariffs where everything is included - packages. There are tariffs for tablets and USB modems without voice communication. And even special ones: for example, tariffs for remote control“smart” devices, tariffs for the hearing impaired and a number of others.
On the websites of mobile operators, as a rule, there are tariff guides, calculators and filters for finding the most suitable tariff, you can change it there using your personal account. Today, mobile operators offer their subscribers tariffs to suit every taste and budget.
3. Focus on the geography of your calls
If you often call relatives and friends to the same numbers, then it is beneficial if they are subscribers of the same operator - intranet communication is the cheapest or even free. All operators have tariffs of this type, if, of course, you do not want and are not ready to connect to “packages”.
You can choose the optimal tariff plans for frequent calls to different numbers in his locality or for calls to different cities and countries. Moreover, when comparing such tariffs from operators, see if any are offered additional options to kill several birds with one stone. Let's say, to a tariff calculated for profitable calls In your city and throughout Russia, you can usually activate options for calls to other countries and a profitable SMS package.
4. Bet on fast and inexpensive Internet
Since the popularity of the mobile Internet is growing at incredible speed, mobile operators are actively investing in developing its infrastructure and increasing capacity. Therefore, there are now many profitable offers for accessing the network from smartphones, laptops and tablets, and on high speed. First, figure out how often you use the Internet, how many megabytes you spend per week, per month. And then carefully study all the offers to choose the best at the lowest price - based on traffic volume, subscription fee or operator tips in the descriptions of tariff plans.
5. Consider package deals
Package offers are an opportunity to purchase everything from one operator at once for a single fee: voice communications, Internet, SMS. And it's profitable! It is not for nothing that a similar approach is increasingly used in the service sector: travel tickets for several modes of transport and comprehensive offers from banks have already appeared.
“Wholesale” mobile communication services are noticeably cheaper, and it’s also easy to control the total bill amount, because the “package” already includes all the necessary services for a certain monthly subscription fee. As a result, you get more traffic and more services without thinking about the cost of each separately.
6. Continue to control your expenses
Find out what your carrier offers for better control expenses. Typically, operators have a number of free services– from ordering details by email and displaying the balance on the phone screen to SMS notification about latest write-offs from your account.
Keep in mind that operator tariffs may differ depending on payment methods - you choose the option that is convenient for you immediately along with the tariff plan. All current tariff plans are divided into prepaid tariffs (pay first, talk later, so you need to have a sufficient amount on your balance) and postpaid payment systems. In the second case, you pay the bill at the end of the month, without interest - only your expenses. One tariff may apply for different systems calculation. Therefore, when choosing a tariff, immediately decide how you would be more comfortable paying for communications. And for better control of expenses - money loves an account! – operators usually offer their subscribers free options, although, perhaps, it is most convenient to monitor expenses and remaining Internet traffic through your personal account on the website or mobile application in your gadget. There you can also check information about connected services, connect new ones, disable unnecessary ones, and reconnect to a different tariff.
7. Before a long trip, take care of roaming
When you go abroad, make sure your phone is turned on international roaming. Find out from your operator how you can save on it, because sometimes staying abroad with your native SIM card is extremely convenient and not at all expensive. Usually, a number of services are offered for this, both for calls and for the Internet, which need to be connected additionally. Conditions for mobile communications in different countries may also vary. For example, the cost of mobile Internet in the same country can vary from 5 to 750 rubles per megabyte - it all depends on mobile operator. In order not to “go into the red” abroad, before traveling, be sure to read all the conditions on the operator’s website and check the tariffs for a specific country: for example, in Europe, as a rule, prices for Mobile Internet much lower than in Asia. Also don't forget about Special offers operators.
If you do not plan to use mobile Internet abroad, then to save money it is better to completely disable data roaming in your mobile device, because modern smartphones can download traffic regardless of your actions. And by the way, free wifi at the airport, at train stations, in hotels or cafes, no one canceled.
8. If you have limited funds, save on calls and correspondence.
Why pay for what you can get for free? Consider mobile apps for free shipping messages, such as Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram - they work on both smartphones and tablets with different platforms. By choosing the right one and installing it on your gadget, you can write to anyone who also uses this application. And Viber and Skype also allow you to call for free if you have an Internet connection, and you will only pay for traffic.
9. Follow promotions andnew offers from operators.
Mobile operators give subscribers gifts in the form of additional minutes voice communication, free Internet traffic, and also provide bonus points, which can be spent profitably, as well as other privileges. And, of course, operators are constantly improving and optimizing their tariffs and services and launching various interesting promotions. Regularly visit your operator’s website to stay up to date with all the news and not miss a profitable chance.
Everyone is equal, but some are more equal. Mobile operators provide their employees with to corporative clients cheaper rates. For example, they can give several codes so that there is enough for themselves and their relatives.
Enterprising employees often sell these codes. Let's figure out what they offer and whether they are worth the money.
MTS Smart for yours
The most popular of the closed ones mobile tariffs. For 200 rubles. per month you can get 10 GB of Internet traffic, 600 SMS per home region, 600 minutes of calls to any numbers in your home region and MTS numbers in any regions of Russia.
You can connect to the tariff for 1000-1800 rubles. The final price depends on the arrogance of the seller.
When you exhaust your package minutes, you can call within the operator’s network for free, and to numbers of other operators for 1.5-2 rubles. per minute to home numbers (depending on the region) and to numbers in other regions - 3 rubles each. in a minute.
There are also additional rules. So, 200 rubles. – this is a monthly fee only for subscribers with federal numbers(9xx). For a city number you can pay extra from 100 to 300 rubles. (in Moscow and Moscow region just +300 rubles to the price).
And in Kamchatka, Magadan, Norilsk and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the monthly fee increases to 450 rubles. per month. But in Voronezh, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Perm, Tula, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug you get as much as 15 GB of Internet instead of 10 GB.
If there is little traffic, you can activate the service "Online"– it’s free for all regions except Norilsk (where you’ll have to pay 4 rubles per day).
MTS has “Super MTS” for its
The tariff has no monthly fee at all. A code on the Internet can be purchased for an average of 600-900 rub. But you still have to replenish.
If you deposit less than 200 rubles, then within 30 days 60 minutes of calls without tariffs will be available to MTS and landline phones in your home region. If you top up with more than 200 rubles, then calls to numbers of other operators will be free.
Internet you will also have to purchase additional Smart packages 2 or 5 GB. Otherwise, you risk shelling out 5 rubles. for every megabyte.
You can get a 50% discount on “Ultra”
For example, in Moscow you don’t get 5,000 minutes, 5,000 SMS and 20 GB of traffic for 2,900 rubles. per month, and for only 1450 rub.. It can be cheaper in other regions.
The connection code costs 1500 – 2000 rubles.
Pays for itself in almost a month.
How to connect to MTS tariffs “for your own”
Option two: buy a code on the Internet or persuade an MTS employee to write a statement that his friend/relative passionately wants to pay the company much less money for calls and the Internet.
The second option is practically not feasible. The security service is vigilant and suppresses attempts to write such statements for money.
Moreover: employees of MTS communication stores formally work for ZAO RTK (“Russian Telephone Company") and cannot help with connecting tariffs “for their own”. And many don’t even know about them.
Therefore it's easier buy a tariff activation code online. Where to enter it:
- USSD command *345#(call);
- Personal account on the MTS website;
- Use the “My MTS” mobile application.
Does this method have limitations?
Rates MTS“for your own” can only be activated once on a specific number. If you don't use your number for five months, you'll revert back to the basic rate.
If you want to change the tariff manually and then return to the freebie again, you won’t be able to do this on the same number.
Tariff plans only for individuals, you can’t connect them to corporate SIM cards. And, as in other “for your own” tariffs, you cannot participate in the MTS Bonus program.
“For our own” tariffs are not available for Crimean SIM cards. But subscribers from Russian regions can come to Crimea with their SIM card and be serviced in the same way as at home, without roaming.
100500 closed Beeline tariffs
Rates "Beeline Solution" start from 200 rub. For this money you get 400 minutes of calls, 500 SMS and MMS, 6 GB of traffic. But in Moscow and Moscow Region, as well as in Crimea, the proposal does not work.
Connection costs from 200 to 1500 rubles.
And here are the tariffs "Beeline Business" work in Moscow and Moscow Region. Prices from 400 rub. per month.
For this money you get unlimited calls to Beeline numbers and 600 minutes to numbers of other operators, 600 SMS and MMS, 15 GB of traffic.
For 1000 rub. give 1500 minutes to numbers of other operators and unlimited within Beeline, 1500 SMS and MMS, 20 GB of traffic. For 2600 rub. – 6000 minutes outside Beeline and unlimited within the network, 6000 SMS and MMS, 30 GB of traffic, as well as 100 SMS and 100 MB of Internet abroad.
In addition, it works secret tariff "Everything over 90". It was offered limited quantity subscribers to increase loyalty. For example, those who wanted to switch to another operator.
You can connect to the tariff using a code from an SMS (but codes usually did not work for other numbers), and until the date specified in the message. If you received such an SMS, but you lost it, the message is available in your personal account in the “Promotions and bonuses” section - “ Favorable connection" - "Recommended offers."
The tariff will be allowed for 90 rubles. get a month free calls V home network and 100 MB of free Internet traffic. The rest is for money:
Another line of closed tariffs – "Golden All Russia": for 400 rub. per month you receive unlimited calls within Russia to Beeline, 600 minutes for calls to other numbers in the Russian Federation and Crimea, 600 SMS and MMS, 15 GB of Internet.
In options for 650 and 900 rubles. per month, supply increases approximately proportionately.
Finally, there are series rates “Premium”, “Key”, “LZRT”, “Cosmo”, “Star” and so on. By the way, Beeline partners often offer such tariffs along with beautiful rooms. If the SIM card is issued to you, this is perhaps the safest option.
What does Megafon offer?
U "Megaphone" there is a whole series for Moscow and Moscow Region "Megastars" tariffs - from S for 275 rubles. per month up to XXL for 1000 rub..
Behind 275 rub. per month you get unlimited calls within the operator’s network, 400 minutes to numbers of other operators, 50 SMS per day and 4 GB of Internet. For 1000 rub. – 7000 minutes to numbers of other operators and unlimited within the network, 100 SMS per day and 30 GB of Internet.
There is also series of tariffs for regions: "Center"(from 200 rubles per month for 1000 minutes to numbers of other operators and unlimited within the network, 1000 SMS/MMS and 10 GB of Internet) for Kaluga, Bryansk, Tula, Oryol, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Kursk regions, "Volzhanka" for the Volga region, "Severyanka" for the North-West region, "Caucasus" and so on.
In general, Megafon has quite official corporate program"Our people". It really allows company employees and their family members to make cheaper calls.
The numbers are issued not to the company, but to a specific subscriber. we wrote about this.
Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Sigma from Tele2
Tele2 offers four closed tariffs. Dearest - "Alpha": for 555 rub. per month you get unlimited calls within the network, 2000 minutes to other operators throughout the country, 2000 SMS/MMS and 20 GB of traffic.
The cheapest - "Sigma": unlimited calls on the network, 300 minutes to numbers of other operators, 300 SMS/MMS and 10 GB of traffic for 170 rubles. per month.
How legal is it?
Generally speaking, connection using codes is illegal. But there are hundreds of sellers on the Internet - on social networks, on boards free ads, even on city forums and popular tech sites.
Of course, operators prohibit the sale of tariff activation codes. And sometimes they conduct demonstrative “raids”, identify employees who are selling rooms, and fire them.
But it is impossible to prove that the subscriber bought the code and did not receive it for free from an employee. So subscribers don’t suffer, free tariffs don’t go away.
The more dangerous thing is that you can be scammed at any moment. Payment for the code to activate the tariff is accepted by an individual on Yandex.Money, Qiwi or another online wallet, less often to a bank card.
It is more difficult to be held accountable for such a “kid” than to fly to Mars on a tour package.
If they offer ready-made SIM cards with a cheap (most often corporate) tariff, you need to understand that they not issued to you, so they can stop working at any time. This happens when a person registers a company to sell SIM cards, does not collect the required number, and corporate rate will be cancelled. In this case, there will be no one to make a claim.
What else can you do
To make cheaper calls, you can inform the operator that you are leaving - write an application to transfer the number.
Often, after such statements, the support service contacts the subscriber and offers more favorable non-public tariffs. Or it gives other goodies. Eg, free Internet for a month or two.
And let's consider how to save on communication services(that is, on phone calls and the Internet). Today, payment for mobile communications and Internet services is one of the constant expenses. family budget any average family, so the state of household finances directly depends on how much money it takes.
Practice shows that many people do not even think about how to save on communications, because they consider these expenses to be insignificant. And it’s completely in vain, because here, as in other cost items, there is always effective ways savings that will free up certain financial resources. And even if within a month they seem insignificant, then over the course of a year, for example, due to reasonable savings on mobile communications, it is quite possible to buy a new modern mobile phone. I think that this is not so insignificant. So, let's talk about how to save on calls and the Internet. Let's start in order.
How to save on calls and mobile communications?
1. Use a mobile phone with two SIM cards. Install in it one SIM card of the operator you most often use for conversations with family and friends, and a second SIM card of the most popular operator in the region, or the operator that provides the most favorable mobile Internet tariffs (if you use it). In this case, you can save significantly on both calls and mobile Internet. Typically cannot be found tariff plan, in which all the services you need would be provided to the maximum favorable rates, so using 2 SIM cards is usually more profitable than using one.
2. Choose your tariff plan wisely. People generally believe that the best data plan is one that has some sort of fixed monthly or daily fee that gives you a certain number of free minutes of talk time. But this opinion is imposed on us by telecom operators, who benefit from it (otherwise such tariff plans would not be so actively advertised), but in fact this is not always the case. Often a person does not need such a number of free minutes at all, and it turns out that it is more profitable for him to pay for calls than to pay a monthly subscription fee.
3. Check out new tariff plans periodically. If you are thinking about how to save on mobile communications, then always be aware of new tariff plans. Mobile tariffs do not stand still; new tariff plans are constantly appearing, and perhaps they will be more profitable than your existing ones. By changing your tariff plan, you can save on phone calls.
4. When it is more profitable, use a landline phone. Calls from mobile to landline numbers always very expensive. Therefore, sometimes it is better not to call “right now”, but to wait until you are near a landline telephone.
5. If possible, use your office phone. All paid calls, especially expensive calls, you can make with office phone, if, of course, you have such an opportunity, and this is acceptable. Do not abuse this recommendation so as not to be noticed by your superiors for saving on calls.
7. For international and long-distance calls, use Skype and IP telephony. Progress does not stand still, and now it is possible to communicate via Skype (even installed on your phone) or similar communication programs, which will be much more profitable than telephone conversations. Even if you need to call not a Skype contact, but phone number to another country - IP telephony will allow you to do this cheaper than your landline or mobile operator.
These were some tips on how to save on calls and mobile communications, now let's move on to saving on the Internet.
How to save money on the Internet?
1. Use cable internet at home. In most cases, this is the most profitable way to connect to worldwide network, besides, and quite high quality. Using various types of modems and telephone lines inferior both in connection speed and in price.
2. Choose the cheapest tariff plan. Now it is used almost everywhere unlimited Internet, the monthly cost of which depends on the access speed. Speeds are also fast now, so you won't actually feel the difference between, say, 25 MB/sec and 100 MB/sec. Then what's the point of paying for 100?
3. If a more profitable Internet provider appears, reconnect. In the Internet services market there is always high level competition, so providers new to a region usually set lower tariffs. Why not take advantage of this, especially since connection and reconnection are usually free of charge. Many people think like this: “after a while they will raise prices anyway.” So what, since they haven’t raised it yet - you can save on the Internet, it won’t cost you anything anyway.
4. Connect with your neighbors in shared network Wi-Fi. It is possible to agree between several apartments that one of them will always have the Wi-Fi router, and the rest will use it, while Internet fees will be distributed evenly among all users. So, in fact, you can significantly save on the Internet by using one connection, for example, for 5 apartments.
5. For mobile Internet, use a special tariff plan. To profitably use the Internet on mobile devices, you need to choose a tariff plan that is focused specifically on working on the Internet (calls on it, as a rule, will no longer be profitable). In this case, as I wrote above, a phone with two SIM cards will help you.
Practice shows that if a person who has never previously thought about how to save on communications begins to take some action in this direction, he will be able to save up to 50% of his previous expenses, practically without depriving himself of using these services.
Now you know how to save on communications (calls and Internet). These are just a few general recommendations, it is quite possible that in your particular case you can find other effective ways to save on communication services.
On the site you can find many other recommendations for saving your family budget and wisely using personal finances in a variety of areas, improve your financial literacy and learn new, relevant ways to earn money and invest. Stay with us, see you again!
In this article we will look at how to save money on mobile communications. In my opinion, this is very important, because everyone has a mobile phone. Life is constantly accelerating, and we can no longer imagine our day without calls, SMS or mobile Internet. The average family has at least 4 people, and if we know how to reduce the cost of cellular communications, the overall savings in the family budget will be quite significant.
How to reduce mobile phone costs
Disable everything unnecessary services on your mobile device. To check what exactly money is being withdrawn from you, go to your personal account of Megafon, Beeline or MTS and make a request for all expenses on your account for the month. If you don’t know how to log into your personal account, then simply type in any search engine, for example, “Megafon Personal Account”; on the operator’s website you will need to enter your phone number and password (if you have never logged into your personal account, then make a request, and you will receive the password from your account via SMS). You'll be amazed at how many useless subscriptions there are, many of which you don't even remember agreeing to. It often happens that some service, for example, a melody instead of beeps, works for free for the first month. And then you definitely had to unsubscribe from her manually, and you naturally did not pay attention to this point when you agreed to subscribe. But it happens that you simply clicked the wrong button, and in the end, you became the happy owner of a super useful forecast of your zodiac sign for 5 rubles a day.
View everything in your personal account current tariffs offered by the mobile operator. Perhaps there are new ones there profitable offer. This is especially true if you haven’t changed your tariff for a long time (in this case, be sure that you are significantly overpaying, because the operator thinks that you don’t really keep track of your balance, so it’s not at all necessary for you to give discounts, and You are ready to pay anyway). Moreover, to change the tariff now you only need to make a couple of mouse clicks in your personal account.
Surely, you have numbers that you call more often than others. Just transfer them to the “Favorites” category (again in your personal account), and you can save significant money.
Check in your personal account for the presence of accumulated bonuses (yes, yes, there are bonuses there, they are awarded for each account replenishment and use of services mobile operator). They can be exchanged for free minutes conversation or SMS, or top up your phone balance with them.
Connect to unlimited mobile Internet (now it's inexpensive) and enjoy all the benefits of Internet applications.
How to save on calls using personal computers and Skype programs At least everyone already knows. Here's how to properly save money using special programs Few people have heard it on mobile yet.
There are such popular services like Whatsapp and Viber (“Votsap” and “Viber”). You can send free messages using Whatsapp text messages, as well as exchange pictures and audio files. And Viber will also allow you to make calls for free. In addition, you can install Viber on Personal Computer and, thereby, call from a computer to a mobile phone.
How to start using Whatsapp and Viber
You download the corresponding mobile application
(from official sites whatsapp.com , viber.com, or with store.apple.com And play.google.com);
Install on your smartphone (it must have operating system Android or BlackBerry or iOS or Windows Phone). Installation is carried out according to the “next-next-next” principle;
Enjoy using it :)
In other words, these programs allow you to save significant money on mobile communications, because... You only pay for the Internet (conventionally, on average, it is 3-5 rubles per day, while 1 minute of calls at regular rates costs not much less). Moreover, Internet traffic is very low, so we can assume that you are not spending anything at all.
The benefits are especially felt if you communicate with someone from another city or country. However, please note that mobile Internet in roaming is extremely expensive, so make sure you find a place with free Wi-Fi.
Whatsapp and Viber are also intuitive clear interface, so you don't need to undergo any specialized training. I would also note that these programs use up your battery quite economically, i.e. You won't even feel any changes.
True, to use such convenient programs, they must be installed not only for you, but also for those with whom you want to communicate. Therefore, invite your friends to save together, tell them how to reduce mobile phone costs using Whatsapp and Viber.
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