People often travel outside their country for travel or business. It is very important for these subscribers to keep their home phone number so that they can use their number as usual.
Buying a SIM card in another country is extremely unprofitable, since in most cases local communication is 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 obligatory subscription fee in these cases depend on the country where the person travels.
Is the SIM card suitable
First of all, you need to find out in advance whether this SIM-card can be used in roaming outside of Russia. To do this, the subscriber must be connected to one of the basic services without a monthly fee "International roaming". If it is not connected on the SIM card, the number will not work, even if it has all the necessary services. The fact is that this opportunity from MegaFon is justprovides the subscriber with such a function as registration in the guest network in the country where the person went.
SIM card must be registered to a Russian citizen. If a person has a residence permit, no citizenship and temporary residence permit (foreign citizen), in principle, the SIM card does not have the ability to activate this service from the MegaFon operator.
It is possible to connect roaming abroad only in a sales salon (shop) with the presentation of the number owner's passport. You need to take care of this in advance, because without the owner of the number or in the contact center the service will not be activated, and without connection the SIM card will be inactive.
Roaming connection
For international roaming, MegaFon has services for both calls and Internet access. However, it is not recommended to enter the network, since the cost of 1 MB, even with special discounts, is quite high. International hotels often have free Wi-Fi, so it's best to surf the Internet this way if needed.
Friends, relatives and partners who stayed in Russia can call the departed just as if he were at home. But when connecting, not only the one who called, but also the subscriber abroad pays for the calls. Incoming communication from a person outside the home region is also paid.
Europe and CIS
In the event that the Megafon subscriber went to European countries, the following will be valid and available for connectionservices:
- "Minutes (Europe and CIS)", "Minutes World";
- "SMS Europe", "SMS World";
- "Internet Abroad".
Where to turn to find out how MegaFon's roaming will work abroad? All details can be found on the official website of the mobile operator.
Main MegaFon options: roaming abroad
The company offers subscribers services for convenient communication and access to the Internet.
Incoming and outgoing calls cost 49 rubles (per minute, per minute billing). The minutes provided in the package can be spent on calls within Europe and the CIS (as well as to Russia), or around the world. Package price - from 329 rubles, the number of minutes - from 25
There is also an option with a subscription 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 not to interrupt the conversation after the end of the package, but to communicate at the usual rates.
2. Incoming messages in roaming are free, outgoing - 19 rubles. Packages "SMS Europe" and "Mir", including 50 messages, cost from 195 rubles. Thus, when purchasing a package, the subscriber has the opportunity, having paid once, without daily charges, to send SMS in roaming for free.
MegaFon - Internet
Roaming abroad via the Internet will be 49rubles per 100 Kb. Thus, if a person wants to check mail, which consumes an average of 2-3 megabytes, write-offs from the number will amount to approximately 1505 rubles. To access the Internet, using the option, you can activate the "Vacation-Online" service on the number (connection - 30 rubles, price for 1 Mb - 19 rubles) or packages of 10 Mb or 30 Mb - "Internet Abroad".
Regarding the last mentioned option, we can say that the price depends on the area 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.
Under this option, money is debited in full not before use, but after the first access to the Internet in any country at MegaFon rates. Roaming abroad, involving movement within a day from one country to another, and at the same time the constant use of the Internet involves debiting money every time you go online in each zone.
Therefore, it is worth considering whether such an Internet is needed or it is better to use the basic output, that is, 49 rubles per 100 Kb.
Other States
When a subscriber is in the "Other countries" zone, which includes most countries in Africa, Far Abroad and island states, the base cost will be higher than when traveling to Europe. However, services can also be provided through the MegaFon roaming connection (special options) - "Ves Mir","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, it will cost him 129 rubles per minute.
You can access the Internet if you have a good connection for 63 rubles per 100 Kb.
The company provides discounts exactly the same as when traveling to Europe and the CIS countries.
Subscriber fee
MegaFon does not turn off tariffs in roaming, but leaves them the same, since the SIM card is not active without a tariff. However, if the client connected to the operator with the condition of monthly subscription fee debiting, then the money will be withdrawn regardless of whether the tariff can be used or not. Also other "home" services.
Perhaps, if the subscriber wishes, they should be turned off for a while, and then reactivated. For the client, this can be a significant savings. For example, total write-offs per day for two activated services is 12 rubles. A person is sent abroad for 14 days. In total, 168 rubles will be written off for those services that he cannot even use. Reconnecting options will cost 30 rubles. In total, the subscriber will save 108 rubles.
Thus, MegaFon (and its partner in any country) does not support home options and tariffs in roaming. The company does not return money for those days when the subscriber could not use the services,even if these are options with Internet traffic, which are completely unnecessary abroad.
Register online
Connecting MegaFon roaming will be useless if the subscriber went to one of the countries where there are no partner companies of the operator. The SIM card can only be used in 216 countries around the world, while there are a total of 251 states as of 2015.
For example, if a person went to Eritrea, which borders Sudan in East Africa, then there he will not be able to use the MegaFon SIM card.
Roaming abroad in the country where the client is traveling necessarily provides for the presence of networks in which you can register. The availability of communication can be clarified in the contact center or in the MegaFon salon when activating the international roaming service.
When entering, the phone itself must find one or more networks available for registration. After that, the user chooses in which of them he will use the connection. In roaming, it does not matter at all which network the subscriber prefers, since the cost will be the same in any of them.
