Crimea is a great place not only for summer holidays on the Black Sea coast. On the peninsula there are picturesque places and beautiful cultural sites that are worth seeing. But in view of recent events, many are wondering: "Which mobile operators operate in 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 themselves whether to take a SIM card with a convenient tariff from a favorite provider or take care of changing it in advance.
Megaphone
Cellular communication in the Crimea from MegaFon allows you to connect the special option "Crimea" (incompatible with the tariff plan "Around the World"). It operates on the territory of the entire Crimean Peninsula and in the surrounding area, provided that the subscriber is in the cellular network of the K-Telecom mobile provider, that is, with the WIN MegaFon identifier on the screen of your gadget. In order to find out which cellular connection works in Crimea and on your phone,you need to go to the gadget settings and in the menu items responsible for receiving, put "select the current provider" (menu branches may differ depending on the operating system).
Naturally, the "Crimea" option cannot be used for ordinary calls to the numbers of Ukrainian telecom operators. In this case, calls will be calculated according to the standard roaming tariff: 35 rubles per minute of conversation and 6 rubles per short message sent.
Reviews and prices
Reviews about the connection from "MegaFon" are not very good: many are not satisfied with the point coverage: the signal seems to be good, but while you are walking the same 100 meters, the connection will either disappear or appear, and so on throughout the peninsula. Yes, and "Personal Account" with great reluctance (for some reason) changes services and tariffs from one to another.
The prices for mobile Internet from the company are not very encouraging: 10 rubles per megabyte of traffic is too expensive. And judging by what kind of cellular communication in the Crimea from MegaFon (frequent interruptions, delays and high cost), it is better to look at a more loyal operator. Nevertheless, the company promises to “fix” all critical flaws soon, but ardent fans of the “green” can only wait patiently.
Beeline
Cellular communications in Crimea from Beeline are provided on the basis of the same K-Telecom network as part of intranet roaming. Last year, the company launched the “Goodbye roaming” campaign for tariff plans"All for …", thanks to which roaming was disabled throughout the Russian Federation. But there is one catch: the Kamchatka region, together with the Crimean peninsula, was included in the list of exceptions, so these territories have regular intranet roaming at standard rates.
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 reviews, can compete with other providers.
Cellular communication in Crimea with the option "My country" is provided on the following conditions:
- connection - 25 rubles (one-time payment);
- 3 rubles per minute of incoming call for the first minute, subsequent time is not charged (free of charge);
- 3 rubles per minute of outgoing call with per-minute billing;
- 3 rubles per outgoing short message;
- incoming SMS - free of charge;
- no subscription fee.
Just like other mobile operators in the Crimea, "Beeline" provides the "Personal Account" service, where you can easily enable or disable this option. You can also call 0611 to the support call center if you have any difficulties with the "Personal Account".
Internet
For fans of the World Wide Web, the company offers two options to choose from - "Planet of the Internet" and "The most profitable Internet in roaming" with prepaid and postpaid, respectively. Both tariffs do not require any manipulation in thatsame "Personal Account" (activation/deactivation) and are connected when the device is in 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 at 5 rubles per unit.
If cellular communication in Crimea is used mainly for surfing, then it makes sense to activate the service "Internet Roaming Week", where 300 Mb of traffic is provided for seven days. If you could not meet the weekly limits and exhausted the traffic earlier, then the cost of each subsequent megabyte will have to be paid at 5 rubles per 1 MB.
User opinions
User reviews about the Crimean "Beeline" are twofold: it seems to be comfortable to talk, and the tariffs are more or less acceptable, but the Internet very often freezes, lags and generally behaves somehow strangely, and such a "bouquet" can get even sitting under the operator's tower, which is very strange. Nevertheless, there are a lot of fans and users of Beeline on the peninsula, but still the company is inferior in popularity to the next respondent.
Crimea, mobile communication: MTS
Owners of SIM cards from MTS, getting to the Crimean peninsula, automatically switch to the home roaming zone, which entails a significant increase in communication prices. For such cases, the company actively advertises a very interesting service “Everywhere at home”. The main and extremely useful advantage of this service is free incoming calls from any Russian region. Tariffication of the outgoing minute inIn this case, it will be 3 rubles. You will have to pay 30 rubles for connection once and pay a daily subscription fee depending on the location of the main SIM card (for example, Moscow - 7 rubles / day).
It is worth noting separately that the service is not automatically disabled, even when the subscriber returns to his home region. You can remove the service by using the "Personal Account" or by sending a short message to number 111 with the text 3333 (USSD request - 1113333).
Also, for those who receive incoming calls more often than outgoing calls, it would be useful to familiarize yourself with the “One country” option, where, by analogy with “Everywhere at home”, incoming calls are not charged, but, unlike the latter, it is possible to work with all tariff plans, and this, judging by user reviews, is a significant plus. You can activate the service by dialing 808 or USSD combination - 111808.
Internet access
As for tariffs for mobile Internet, judging by the numerous laudatory reviews, they are the most "delicious" here. It is enough to use the convenient SuperBIT service, which operates throughout Russia. Instead of any daily surf limits, the company offers a 3 GB monthly package. The price tag may vary slightly and depends on the home region of the SIM card: Moscow - 350 rubles / month, and regions - about 200 rubles / month. You can activate the option by 628. Before performing any action on the connection, be sure to check thatwhich mobile operator in Crimea is available to you at the moment, so that there will be no misunderstandings later.
Summing up
In terms of mobile communications, the Crimean peninsula stands apart so far. Moreover, even the Big Three are forced to fulfill their obligations to subscribers through the Crimean provider WinMobile.
As company representatives explain, they are simply afraid of imposing sanctions from the European Union: if the Russian home network “enters” the territory of the Crimean peninsula, this is fraught with significant losses and heavy fines. Therefore, until the boom around Crimea subsides and the appropriate amendments are adopted, there can be no talk of high-quality and affordable communication.
Nevertheless, the "troika" promises to resolve the situation by the next season and 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 it stays that way.
