"MegaFon": roaming abroad. Reviews, rates, how to connect

People often travel outside their country on a journey or in the interests of business. For such subscribers it is very important to save your home phone number so that you can use your number as usual.

To get a SIM-card in another country is extremely unprofitable, since local communication is in most cases completely unnecessary, and calling home, to Russia, will cost a lot of money.

For its subscribers the mobile operator "MegaFon" provides various services when traveling abroad for the convenience of communication. The cost of calls and the mandatory subscription fee in these cases depend on the country where the person leaves.

Is the SIM card suitable?

First of all, it is necessary to find out in advance whether a given SIM-card can be used in roaming outside of Russia. For this, one of the basic services must be connected to the subscriber without the subscription fee "International roaming". If it is not connected to the SIM card, the number will not work, even if it has all the necessary services. The fact is that this feature from MegaFon provides the subscriber with such a function as registration in the guest network in the country where the person went.

The SIM card must be registered with a Russian citizen. In the event that a person has a residence permit, there is no citizenship and a temporary residence permit (a foreign citizen), on the SIM card, in principle, there is no possibility to connect this service with the operator "MegaFon".

To connect roaming abroad it is possible only in the salon of sales (store) with the presentation of the passport of the owner of the number. It is necessary to take care of this in advance, since without the owner of the number or in the contact center the service is not activated, and without connection the SIM card will be inactive.

Connection in roaming

For international roaming in "MegaFon" there are services both for talking and for accessing the Internet. However, it is not recommended to enter the network, as the cost of 1 MB, even with special discounts, is quite large. In international hotels, there is often free Wi-Fi, so if necessary, it is better to use the Internet in this way.

Friends, relatives and partners who stayed in Russia can call the departed in the same way as if he were at home. But at connection for conversations pays not only the one who called, but also the subscriber abroad. Incoming communication with a person outside the home region is also paid.

Europe and the CIS

In the event that the subscriber "Megaphone" has gone to the countries of Europe, the following services will operate for him and are accessible for connection:

- "Minutes (Europe and CIS)", "Minutes of the World";

- "SMS Europe", "SMS World";

- "Internet Abroad."

Where can I go to find out how MegaFon will operate roaming abroad? All details can be specified on the official website of the mobile operator.

The main options of MegaFon: roaming abroad

The company offers subscribers services for convenient communication and access to the Internet.

1. Incoming and outgoing calls cost 49 rubles (per minute, per minute billing). The minutes provided in the package can be used for calls to Europe and the CIS (and also to Russia), or all over the world. The price of the package - from 329 rubles, the number of minutes - from 25.

There is also an option with a monthly fee, when for 39 rubles a day a subscriber can talk for 30 minutes with an interlocutor of any network, including MegaFon. Roaming abroad (tariffs and options, connected when leaving) allows you to end the conversation without interrupting the conversation, and communicate at regular rates.

2. Incoming messages are roaming free, outgoing - 19 rubles. The packages "SMS Europe" and "Mir", including 50 messages, cost from 195 rubles. Thus, when purchasing a package, the subscriber has the option to pay once, without a daily write-off, to send SMS in roaming absolutely free of charge.

"MegaFon - Internet"

Roaming abroad on the Internet will be 49 rubles per 100 Kb. Thus, if a person wants to check mail, for which an average of 2-3 megabytes is spent, write-offs from the number will be approximately 1505 rubles. To access the Internet using the option, you can activate the service "Vacation-Online" (connection - 30 rubles, price for 1 MB - 19 rubles) or packages 10 MB or 30 MB - "Internet abroad".

Regarding the last mentioned option, you can say that the price depends on the zone of use. In Europe - 129 and 329 rubles (10 and 30 MB), in the CIS and popular countries (Egypt, Turkey, Thailand, etc.) - 329 and 829 rubles, other countries - 1990 and 4990 rubles.

With this option, the money is written off in full not before use, but after the first Internet access in any country at the rates of "MegaFon". Roaming abroad, which involves moving within a day from one country to another, and at the same time, the constant use of the Internet provides for the writing-off of money at every first access to the network in each zone.

Therefore, here it is worthwhile to think whether such an Internet is needed or better to use a basic output, that is, at 49 rubles per 100 Kb.

Other States

When the subscriber is in the zone "Other countries", which include most of the countries of Africa, the Far Abroad and the island states, the base cost will be higher than when traveling to Europe. However, services can also be carried out through the connection of MegaFon roaming (special options) - "Whole World", "SMS World", "Vacation-Online".

Incoming and outgoing calls in roaming at the base price will cost 79 rubles. And in the event that the subscriber wants to call to other countries, except for Russia and the country of location, for him it will cost 129 rubles per minute.

You can go online if you have a good connection for 63 rubles per 100 Kb.

Discounts the company provides exactly the same as when traveling to the countries of Europe and the CIS.

Subscription fee

Tariffs in roaming "MegaFon" does not disconnect, but leaves the same, because without a tariff SIM-card is not active. However, if the client connects to the operator on the condition of monthly chargeback, the money will be withdrawn regardless of whether the tariff can be used or not. Also other "home" services.

Perhaps, if the subscriber wants, they should be turned off for a while, and then re-activated. For the customer this can be a significant saving. For example, the total write-off for a day for two activated services is 12 rubles. A person goes abroad for 14 days. Total will write off 168 rubles for those services, which he can not even use. Re-connection options will cost 30 rubles each. Total, the subscriber will save 108 rubles.

Thus, home options and tariffs in roaming "MegaFon" (and its partner in any country) does not support. The company does not return funds for the days when the subscriber could not use the services, even if these are options with Internet traffic, which are completely unnecessary abroad.

Registration in the network

The connection of MegaFon roaming will be useless if the subscriber has gone to one of the countries where there are no operator partner companies. SIM-card can be used only in 216 countries of the world, while there are altogether 251 states as of 2015.

For example, if a person went to Eritrea, which borders Sudan in East Africa, then he will not be able to use the SIM-card "MegaFon".

Roaming abroad in the country where the client is traveling, necessarily provides for the presence of networks where you can register. The presence of the connection can be clarified in the contact center or in the MegaFon salon when the international roaming service is activated.

At the entrance, the telephone itself must find one or more networks available for registration. After that, the user selects which of them he will use the connection. In roaming it does not really matter which network the subscriber prefers, since the cost will be the same in any of them.