Long distance roaming was canceled. National and intranet roaming canceled in Russia - Rossiyskaya Gazeta. When the cancellation law comes into effect

There is no longer national and intranet roaming in Russia. This means that when traveling around the country, including the Crimea, we will no longer pay for incoming calls by mobile phone. Price for outgoing calls and short messages, as well as for Mobile Internet saved as part of the service package that you use with your operator.

Intranet roaming is a service that is provided to a subscriber when he leaves his home region where his SIM card is registered. For example, when a resident of Novosibirsk arrives in Moscow on a business trip or arrives in Sochi from Nizhny Novgorod on vacation. Previously, communication services in such a situation were provided for an additional fee. To save on incoming calls, you had to connect a special option. Use services mobile communications Subscribers with tariff packages, which provided free calls in the guest regions, could relatively freely.

Prices for outgoing calls, SMS and mobile Internet remain the same, as they were before the cancellation of roaming

National roaming is activated when the operator does not have its own network in the region where in this moment there is a subscriber. In this case, his phone automatically connects to the network of another cellular company with which his operator has an agreement.

For example, a resident of the capital, traveling to remote areas in the Urals, could get into national roaming, since not all large operators had time to bring their infrastructure there. A separate story was with Crimea, where federal operators do not work, using the networks of local operators - K-Telecom (Win-mobile brand), KTK-Telecom (Volna mobile), Krymtelecom and Sevtelecom.

Fees for national and intranet roaming were charged in Russia from the very beginning of the development of networks cellular communication... Operators' tariffs differed, but on average, communication services in roaming cost from 5 to 11 rubles per minute without additional options and discounts. Now incoming calls are free throughout Russia, including Crimea.

This option works on all tariff plans without exception at no additional charge and does not require the activation of any additional services. Otherwise, nothing changes.

National and intranet roaming was actually eliminated in most of Russia in the fall of 2018. It took a long time. The cancellation was preceded by lengthy proceedings between the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the cellular companies. In August 2017, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) initiated proceedings against the Big Four operators (MTS, MegaFon, Beeline, Tele2), incriminating them in maintaining monopoly high prices for communication services in national roaming and concluding national inter-operator roaming agreements on the territory of the country. All four operators were ordered to eliminate violations. In the fall, national roaming virtually ceased to exist. Parallel pressurized by FAS cellular operators Intranet roaming was also canceled.

In December 2018, President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the Law "On Communications" fixing the abolition of national roaming. The changes took effect on June 1. On May 27, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a decree on the elimination of intranet roaming, which put an end to this process. "This is the final solution to the roaming issue at the level of a bylaw," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev emphasized at the meeting. The decree also entered into force on June 1.

Now say what you want. But don't forget that only incoming calls are free. Photo: Evgenia Guseva / Komsomolskaya Pravda

Incoming calls while traveling in Russia have become free, including those on the Black Sea coast. On vacation, you can save on them

The rules for the provision of services telephone connection introduced a new clause, which states that on the territory of Russia, a cellular operator in its network establishes the same conditions for the provision of services to each subscriber, regardless of which region the number belongs to. This also applies to the Crimea. Russian cellular operators, including virtual ones, must include the peninsula in a single tariff space. And so that federal players do not suffer losses, Crimean companies are obliged to reduce tariffs for them.

"There are many citizens in Russia - about 25 percent of all subscribers who use only push-button telephones without Internet access. They do not communicate in messengers, but they often make calls, ”Denis Kuskov, director of the TelecomDaily news agency, told RG. - For them, canceling roaming is a way to significantly reduce costs. An additional plus for all mobile users: when traveling in Russia, you no longer need to spend time studying the terms of the tariff and activate additional options to save money. "

Experts have previously warned that the abolition of national roaming would result in losses for Crimean cellular operators. The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Igor Artemyev replied that the operators had no reason to worry. According to him, high level profits without national roaming will be ensured by a successful holiday season in Crimea, which also began on June 1.

The holiday mood in the southern directions is already felt at the check-in counters of the Domodedovo airport, which will now bear the name of Mikhail Lomonosov.

Flight Moscow - Simferopol is filled to capacity and free places no. Spouses Nasonovs from Surgut fly to Crimea not for the first time. They know firsthand that the peninsula has its own mobile roaming, they have learned from bitter experience.

“To be honest, in 2015, when we first flew to Crimea on vacation, it was an unpleasant surprise for us,” recalls the Siberian. “Then four thousand flew from the account in a week. somehow unpleasant. And what to do?

The couple heard about the cancellation of roaming from June 1, although they did not delve into the details. "I was not specifically interested in Crimea in this regard. They booked a vacation back in March, and then they did not think about it," Nikolai admitted. "I know that roaming will be canceled in the regions of Russia."

The largest mobile operator on the peninsula, K-Telecom (mobile operator WIN-mobile), declares that it is ready to provide communication to the guests of the peninsula. "It is technically possible to provide communication with all operators of the Big Four and even with smaller companies," said Vladimir Zaitsev, General Director of K-Telecom. "We have cooperation agreements with all companies."

FAS monitors the situation

For its part, the Federal Antimonopoly Service confirms that it controls the entire process. "Large operators have announced that they are ready to amend the tariffication in accordance with the law. No fee will be charged for incoming calls," explained Vugar Mehdiyev, head of the antimonopoly control department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for Crimea and Sevastopol. monitor the situation. We believe that operators compensate for the cancellation of national roaming by more active consumption of services. "

That is incoming call in Crimea it will be as free as in the "home" region where your SIM card is registered. Regional authorities advise guests and residents of the peninsula to immediately report interruptions in the work of mobile communications or abuse of operators.

You can report problems with communication by phone " hotline"Head of the Republic of Crimea: 0-800-506-0001 (from landline telephones) - multichannel phone, free .

And by number 8-800-506-0001 (with mobile phones) - multichannel phone is free .

Quality: 2 G - to 4G

In turn, they promise to improve the quality of communication in Crimea. For example, in the new building of the airport "Simferopol" until recently there were "blind spots" where communication was lost. The complex is serviced by one base station, experts say; by the beginning of this season, its capacity has been increased. They promise to completely solve the problem by mid-June, when a massive influx of tourists will begin in Crimea.

“Installation of miniature base stations is underway in the terminal building,” said the K-Telecom manager. “This will provide high-speed mobile communications, including in the LTE standard. Wi-Fi network but that will be the responsibility of the building owner. "

By mid-July, the quality of communication on the Crimean bridge will also change. By this time, the installation of the base station should be completed on the Tuzla spit. The process would move faster, but interagency agreements take too much time, operators complain. To mount one tower, signalmen need about one and a half to two months, and the previous routine of interagency approvals can stretch for six months or more. Nevertheless, in the coming months, communication on the bridge itself and on the Tavrida highway will become more stable.

“Crimeans may not feel this, because the network is working smoothly there now, and we will feel when it will be necessary to provide communication for a much larger number of people during the summer peak,” says the Minister of Internal Policy, Information and Communications of the Crimea Sergey Zyryanov.

The Tavrida highway under construction is so far fully covered only by 2 G. The construction of 3G base stations is yet to come. New base stations will appear on the route from Simferopol to Yalta. According to the data of mobile operators of the republic, with the exception of new buildings, the coverage of the peninsula with 3G communications has approached 100 percent. It is absent unless on the tops of the Crimean mountains and in reserves, where there are very few visitors, which means that the installation of base stations will not be profitable.

But in Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yalta, Evpatoria and Kerch, as well as in the most popular seaside villages with tourists, there is already a 4G connection.

Connection check

Tatarstan. The press service of Tattelecom denied information that appeared in some media and social networks that their subsidiary TMT had not had time to prepare for the new changes. "Your mobile technologies"owns the Letai brand, which provides cellular services in the Republic of Tatarstan. From June 1, the company's subscribers can receive incoming calls absolutely free.

Sevastopol. Sevastopol operator Sevmobile has officially canceled national roaming since June 1. "In accordance with the requirements of the law, when traveling across Russia for Sevmobile subscribers, all incoming calls will be free," an employee of the company told the RG correspondent.

However, the SIM card holders who were interested in the cancellation of roaming were told at the Sevmobile call center on June 1 that nothing would change for them: when traveling to other regions of the country, incoming calls remain paid, their cost depends on the tariff plan. Subscribers were offered to connect additional service, in which incoming calls when traveling around the country will be free, its cost is six rubles per day.

RG checked this situation too. As we were told, this is a mistake, the call center workers did not have complete information... The network of this operator operates only in one region - Sevastopol. Residents of the city say that they use Sevmobile mainly for mobile Internet while in their region. When leaving the Crimea, Sevmobayl's SIM cards often end up outside the network, so you have to switch to the services of other operators.

Chechnya. Vainakh Telecom JSC said that, like other mobile operators, now the company's subscriber, being in another region, will be able to receive calls free of charge. Thus, the company has disabled intranet and national roaming.

"We do not have our own cellular network in the rest of the subjects of Russia, only in Chechnya. When traveling to another region, our subscribers connect to the Megafon or Beeline network and use their base. But incoming calls are now free, "the operator's company told RG.

But the reason why the subscribers were not informed about the changes was not named in Vainakh Telecom, referring to the internal work of the company.

Cellular operators. All for the sake of canceling intranet roaming.

Are there those who believed that the Big Three would take and cancel it just like that? Shoot pink glasses, the last frontier has recently fallen.

Recently Megafon sent me an SMS with a notification about the change in the terms of the tariff. Thanks guys, I would always like this. I was assured that "it will become more convenient and easier to communicate and use the fast Internet while traveling in Russia."

In general, it has not become easier.

This is how the new roaming works

The operators "dutifully" complied with the FAS requirements and amicably canceled roaming. But along with this, they came up with a new scheme for making money on long-distance calls. Moreover the same, with a slight difference in prices. Here's the gist:

1 ... Let's say you leave your home region and come to Moscow.

2. All calls within the network to Moscow numbers become free within the packages of your tariff.

3. All calls within the network from numbers in other regions (including your home) - paid... Directly by the minute, past the package.

We are talking about both incoming and outgoing calls. That is, if a person has left for another region and they continue to call him from his home region, he will have to pay good money.

At the same time, the Internet will work throughout Russia like at home. As usual, Sevastopol and Crimea have their own conditions. There are also a couple of nuances via SMS. We have already compared the basic tariffs of the operators here in.

What's the catch?

You can even drive negative switched off phone.

This is the first thing that came to my mind after reading the terms and conditions. All because of one service of little use - voice mail with an answering machine. The fact is that the connection between the subscribers is established immediately after turning on the answering machine. And now for such calls you will have to to pay.

Yes, in the age of instant messengers, hardly anyone leaves voice messages to voicemail. But there are constantly pouring in various drop dead offers from banks, insurance, or "investment" companies. And no one canceled random recordings from calls from colleagues and loved ones.

Where are the proofs, Billy?

Of course, I immediately rushed to check.

There were several voicemail notifications in the messages. I compared them with the call detail, and my guess was confirmed.

In detail at the same time stamps, we see the following:

That is, when I am left a message in this way, the operator captures outgoing call from my sim card (!) and then an incoming notification message. He calls the megaphone "server" located in my home region. Accordingly, now all this is free. But in roaming, such notifications will cost me 5-10 rubles. depending on the length of the message.

And again, this is not exclusive from Megafon, other operators have about the same picture.

So what's now?

Option 1: leave your SIM card at home and use the local ones.

Do not just rearrange them on the spot, but leave them at home. Just upon arrival in a new region, the SIM card will be registered through local communication stations. So the operator will understand that you are not in your home region and will enable “convenient and simple” roaming conditions. If you just leave the card at home, nothing like this will happen.

Such an answering machine is just another service of the operators. In Megafon it is "Who called +", in Beeline - "Answering machine", and MTS called the service "Voice mail". All this can be turned off and stop thinking about incoming calls. True, many people continue to receive voice messages even after disconnection. Perhaps the shutdown takes some time, although everything was immediately cut out for me.

for Megaphone: *581*3#
for MTS: SMS with text 902 to 111
for Beeline: *110*010#

Option 3: give up and buy a roaming package.

The logic is simple: if you travel often, please take the appropriate fare. If it is rare, each operator has a package of minutes for roaming.

Remember how it was before? For example, as soon as you leave, you immediately turn on the "All over Russia" option. Operators are completely satisfied with this model, and they are trying to return to it.

Here's what the big three have to offer:

What's next?

Roaming stopped operating in Russia - cellular operators told NGS on what conditions subscribers will now talk while traveling.

“On August 20, Beeline was the first to cancel the fee for incoming calls from other regions while traveling across Russia in the Beeline network. Previously, incoming long-distance calls when outside the region were paid by the subscriber in the amount of 5 rubles per minute. On higher package tariffs, incoming calls were free. Now all incoming calls outside the connection region are free for individual subscribers in the Beeline network, regardless of the tariff plan and payment system. This condition applies to all regions of Russia where the Beeline network operates.

The changes that took place in August affected only incoming calls. Internet, SMS and outgoing calls are billed as at home on all tariffs starting from April ",

The representative of the company "Beeline" for external communications in Siberia and the Far East Yana Nazarova said.

He also noted that the new tariffs for intranet roaming will operate in all regions of Russia, except for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, where MegaFon does not have its own network.

“If a MegaFon subscriber moves from Novosibirsk to Yekaterinburg, he will make calls to Yekaterinburg numbers at the same rate at which he called in Novosibirsk - that is, either spend his package of minutes, or call about 2 rubles per minute ( if he has a tariff without a monthly fee).

But calls back to Novosibirsk, on the contrary, for the duration of their stay in another region for the subscriber will be charged as long-distance calls.

If the subscriber's tariff includes long distance calls in his package of minutes, he will not incur any additional costs at all, ”Ivonin said.

Russians, who often move around the country, are interested in one question - have they canceled roaming in Russia or not. In fact, he disappeared at the end of last year. The state, represented by the Federal Antimonopoly Service, managed to achieve its goal - intranet roaming disappeared. But on the other hand, he partially remained.

On May 27, 2019, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree abolishing roaming throughout the country. Starting from June 1, Russia will have uniform prices for calls in all regions, including those outside the home region.

Incoming calls for subscribers in Crimea and Sevastopol will become completely free. Outgoing calls will be charged according to the operator's tariffs.

The home region is now more correctly called the connection region. Local tariffication of calls is applied here, and calls to other regions are long-distance calls. As soon as the subscriber leaves for another region, it becomes his home region - calls to the connection region and other regions of Russia become intercity calls, and local calls at the location.

A typical example is a Moscow subscriber travels to the Krasnodar Territory. He uses a tariff with a package of local calls - within Moscow and the Moscow region. When you are in Krasnodar, everything changes places - the package of minutes will be valid for calls within the Krasnodar Territory, and calls to Moscow will be charged as long-distance calls.

Most of all, people were lucky with tariff plans that include packages of minutes within Russia. They can move freely throughout the country and call in any direction - including at their location and home. As for the mobile Internet, its cost remains on all existing tariff plans of Russian operators.

Incoming in all parts of Russia remains free under any conditions - the era of paid incoming is over.

Tele 2

Tele2 tariff plans do not contain roaming tariffs. Take "My Online" as an example. It includes 15 GB of mobile Internet and 500 minutes within Russia. Travel billing:

Internet - according to the current tariff;
Voice communication - from the package;
Calls in excess of the package - 1.5 rubles / min in the region of location, 2 rubles / min to other Russian numbers.

There is one strange flaw on the "Classic" tariff - intercity in the connection region costs 9 rubles / min, while traveling - 5 rubles / min. Probably, the FAS is more than completely satisfied with the reduction in roaming prices.

Special conditions in Crimea:

Incoming - 1 rub / min;
Outgoing calls within the RF - 3 rubles / min;
SMS and MMS within the Russian Federation - 3 rubles / pc.

Mobile Internet in Crimea costs 3 rubles / Mb.

MTS

The tariff plans of this operator were divided into two categories.

The first includes tariffs that keep tariffs on trips - these are Tarifische, Smart Zabugorishche, Our Smart and some others.
The second category includes tariffs that require activation of the options “Russia at home everywhere”, “Home package Russia” and “Home package Russia +”. They reduce the cost of intercity and make outgoing calls home free of charge. The calculator on the operator's website will help to understand all this.

Trips to Crimea with an MTS SIM card will turn into a benefit for subscribers - many tariff plans work here without any additional payments, at home rates.

Megaphone

On tariffs "Turn on!" subscribers will be charged with the usual home billing. For all others, the options "All Russia" and "Vacation without worries" are offered. The first one reduces the cost of outgoing calls within the RF to 3 rubles / min. The second option opens up favorable conditions in Crimea - free incoming calls for 33 rubles / day and 60 MB of the Internet for 99 rubles / day. ...

Beeline

The Beeline operator uses a common scheme for all - the location region becomes home. There are differences only when you are in Crimea - incoming and outgoing within the Russian Federation cost 2.03 rubles / min, SMS - 2.03 rubles / unit, mobile Internet - the first 3 MB per day at 2.03 rubles, the next 110 MB - 203, 99 rubles / day, then 2.03 rubles / MB.

On some tariff plans, the cost of services while in the Crimea and Sevastopol may differ.

Yota

Officially, this operator has never had roaming rates. But if a subscriber spends more than 30 days outside his region, he begins to be served at the "Regional" tariff - it is slightly more expensive than a home one. From May 25, 2019, "Regional" will go to the archive, the operator has no roaming rates.

Cancellation of roaming with other operators

Operators Danycom and Tinkoff Mobile fell into this category. They have never had and do not have roaming in Russia. They provide minute and traffic packages that are valid throughout the country. This ensures their popularity - their services are used by people who do not want to overpay for communications while traveling.

Roaming was canceled almost completely. When we forget about regional differences remains unclear. The FAS has no requirements on this issue.

Not even half a year has passed, as they say, since the last "cancellation of roaming", which took place on September 1, 2018, when the Internet (and not only) got around the fresh news about the cancellation of intranet roaming.

Is it good to cancel roaming?

Oh sure!It won't be cheaper!

Indeed, just a few days ago, another law was adopted to abolish intranet roaming. Let's take a closer look at its nuances.

Draft law to abolish intranet roaming in Russia

On December 19, 2018, the State Duma adopted the corresponding law, which will have to abolish intranet roaming in the territory of the Russian Federation. However, the adoption of the law does not mean that it will come into effect immediately - the law will begin to work only in the summer of 2019, from June 1.

The "saga" with the cancellation of this very roaming has been going on for several years, and especially attentive subscribers who are not tired of following the changes tariff plans, drew attention to the fact that the approach to the formation of tariffs and the withdrawal of a subscription fee in roaming has not changed significantly during these years.

However, this time the law includes literally several dozen words, a couple of paragraphs of text. However, they are very important, because they really give us, ordinary subscribers, a chance for a "bright future" in the world of cellular communications.

The official text of the law can be found at the following link, but I propose to understand in human terms what we should expect next summer.

The following can be understood from the text of the law:

Since the entry into force of the law, all incoming calls while staying in guest regions within Russia will become free... Moreover, this condition will also apply to national roaming (subject to the registration of a subscriber of one operator, for example, MTS, in the network of the guest region of another operator, for example, Beeline). However, knowing the behavior of the leading cellular operators in the Russian Federation, it would be quite reasonable to assume that they will try with all their might to bypass this restriction;
From now on the wording "Region of presence" will become official, and this is how, apparently, in the future, operators will position the usual guest region of stay. Thus, getting into the region of presence, the subscriber gets the opportunity to be served on the terms of his home region, but calls to his real home region, where he entered into an agreement, will be regarded as long-distance calls. True, here another question becomes an edge - it's no secret that in some regions communication is cheaper or more expensive than in others. In this case, what prevents subscribers from a conventionally "expensive" region to go to a conventionally "cheap" one, draw up a contract there, get a SIM card and return to their home region, using communication there on more favorable terms? Perhaps this is another task that domestic operators will have to solve over the next six months;
Long distance calls won't go anywhere operators will continue to benefit from such calls. It can even be assumed that the cost of such services will be increased, or the number of long-distance minutes quotas in packages will be reduced, since operators will certainly want to somehow compensate for the cancellation of roaming in the country. Therefore, it is important to conditionally outline for yourself the boundaries between roaming and long distance calls, realizing that these are two "big differences";
Will not spread, Most likely, the law for the inhabitants of the Crimean peninsula, and for operators this territory will remain a stranger, where the conditions of national roaming will apply. Thus, it is not worth hoping for cheap calls to Crimea, provided that you stay on the territory of the peninsula;
Incoming calls on the territory of Crimea, judging by the wording of the law, will be free, and all this will be spelled out in black and white in the text of the law;
The law also applies to regional operators, who may have a "hard time". However, again, returning to the algorithms of the Russian operators' work, it is hard to believe that they will not try to compensate for the losses at the expense of their subscribers. On the one hand, when leaving the home region, operators can set any price tags for long-distance calls, on the other hand, they are obliged to provide subscribers with free incoming calls, and they just need it.

Eventually

Summarizing the above, we can assume that, finally, we (almost) waited for the moment when incoming calls in roaming around the country will become free.

However, what other "pitfalls" can await us, ordinary subscribers who regularly make a monthly fee, can only be assumed. We can only wait for the appearance of new tariffs and clarifications from operators, the edition of already existing tariff packages and sending the usual TP to the archive.

But all this later, closer to the middle / end of spring, and now it remains to be patient and have money on the account if you are planning a trip outside your home region for the New Year holidays.