Which operator turned out to be the best in Russia? Huge lead

In Russia, three companies stand out among mobile operators - MTS, Megafon, Beeline. They have the largest number of subscribers. The remaining mobile operators have significantly fewer clients and are represented only in certain regions of the Russian Federation. Popular operators, but not included in the “Big Three”, can be called Tele2, Rostelecom, Smarts. The total number of active cellular operators in Russia is more than a hundred. Some regional operators are subsidiaries of large Russian ones in Tula, and Belgorod Cellular Communications belongs to Tele2.

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Which operator is better? Rating of mobile operators 2021 by quality and price

Mobile communications are something without which it is difficult to imagine life in the modern world, so it is not surprising that every mobile operator is trying to somehow modernize its services and capabilities in order to keep up with the times and not lose its regular customers.
That is why, when a user wants to change an operator or add another one, he uses ratings in order to understand which one is better to connect to and which one is better not to use. Rating:

1. MTS;
2. Megaphone;
3. Beeline;
4. Tele 2.

All operators

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• AKOS
• Antares
• Apex
• Arctic Region Communication
• Arcturus
• Arkhangelsk Mobile Networks
• ASVT
• Astarte
• Astrakhan-GSM
• Astrakhan-Telecom
• Baikalwestcom
• Belgorod Cellular Communications
• Wireless information technology
• Vainakh Telecom
• WEST CALL LTD
• Volgograd GSM
• Votek-Mobile
• Vympel-Communications
• Gazprom Telecom
• Hals-Telecom
• Global Telecom
• Gorno-Altai Cellular Communications
• State Unitary Enterprise Automatic Telephone Station of Smolny
• State Unitary Enterprise RP KRYMTELECOM
• Dagest cellular communication
• Dalsvyaz
• Business Network - Irkutsk
• Delta Telecom
• Yo-Mobile
• Ekaterinburg-2000
• Yeniseitelecom
• Integral
• Intercom Technology
• INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
• Internode
• Information trunk systems
• K-telecom
• CountryCom
• Kemerovo Mobile Communications
• TransTeleCom Company
• Computer ambulance
• COMSTAR-Regions
• CTC TELECOM
• Kuban-GSM
• Kuzbask.cell connection
• Kurgan Cell Phone
• Link Master
• MAG
• MATRIX telecom
• Megaphone
• Interregional TransitTelecom
• Metro Pay
• MIT-TEL
• MMS of Ingushetia
• Mobile cellular communication
• Mobile Telesystems
• Moscow city telephone network
• Moscow Cellular Communications
• MTT Invest
• MTU-INFORM
• Murmansk Mobile Network
• MURMANSK TRAWL FLEET

• Navigation and information systems
• Our network
• Nizhny Novgorod Cellular Communications
• Nat Bai Nat Holding
• Osnova Telecom
• Penza-GSM
• Personal Communication Systems in the Region
• Radio pulse
• RadioTel
• Regional technical center
• Rostelecom
• RT-Mobile
• RusSDO
• Saratov Cellular Communication System
• SEVASTOPOL TELECOM
• Northeast Telecom
• Northeast Telecommunications
• ServicePartner
• Sibintertelecom
• Sibirtelecom
• Sigma Telecom
• SIM TELECOM
• Systematics
• Sky Link
• Sky-1800
• Scartel
• SMARTS
• SMARTS — Volgograd
• SMARTS — Ivanovo
• SMARTS — Ufa
• SMARTS-Astrakhan
• SMARTS-Yoshkar-Ola
• SMARTS-Penza
• SMARTS-SAMARA
• SMARTS-Saransk
• SMARTS-Saratov
• SMARTS-Ulyanovsk
• SMARTS-Cheboksary
• SMARTS-Elista
• Smolensk Cellular Communications
• Smoltelecom
• Promoting the development and use of navigation technologies
• Sonnet
• Sotel-cell. connection of Chuvashia
• Cellular Communications of Bashkortostan
• Sprint
• Surgutneftegaz
• T2 Mobile
• Your mobile technologies
• Tele2-Omsk
• Tele2-St. Petersburg
• Telecom-Service
• Tyvasvyazinform
• Tyumenruscom
• Uralwestcom
• FEBO Telecom
• Financial Company Imperative
• Phonecom
• Central Telegraph
• Express TeleCom
• Elemte-Invest
• ESOTEL-Rustelcom
• Yaroslavl-GSM



Rating of mobile operators in 2021

Ratings of mobile operators and their popularity indicators are set by statisticians who monitor the work and use of these networks, what rednecks they received, how many new clients came, how many left, etc. Indeed, a lot of criteria are calculated, each of them creates its own indicator, which are summed up and get the average result, which everyone sees in the year’s ratings.

Rating of mobile operators 2021:

1. MTS;
2. Megaphone;
3. Beeline;
4. Tele 2.

These 4 mobile operators are the most popular among all Russian users and inspire confidence in many customers with their quality of work.

List of involved codes

People's rating

This indicator has its place, but basically, it can be attributed to the reviews that users leave after the conversation has ended or they have used the Internet.

If we talk in more detail about the reviews, then MTS is one of the best mobile operators for users, since it receives and maintains communications throughout the country, and no matter what region you go to, in any case you will be able to contact with the help of MTS. Thanks to this advantage, MTS is the most numerous communications dispatcher, which has about 80 million users.

Megafon earned its popularity and loyalty thanks to its rapid modernization, so it became the very first communications dispatcher to introduce 4G. In addition, Megafon has the most convenient application among all operators and is slightly inferior to MTS in terms of the number of users.

Beeline has been losing its popularity in recent years, although when everything was just in its infancy, it was the founder of everything new in the world of mobile communications and the Internet. At the moment, the operator has one of the lowest indicators, but many users are still loyal to it.

Tele2 is a young operator that has recently entered the market. It has a large number of towers in all regions of the country and is already catching up with the market leaders.

Content

As of 2021, there are many mobile communication providers of various levels operating in Russia. Some cellular operators providing their services in the regions are subsidiaries of large companies. Therefore, it is worth finding out which federal operators operate in Russia, which virtual operators are on the market, and how to identify an operator by phone number. You can connect to the Internet in Kubinka and in other areas.

Rating by quality and price

The quality of Internet connection can be determined by the number of users. If, for example, Beeline has poor Internet speed and an insufficient number of towers, then there are not very many clients. MTS and Megafon, on the contrary, are installing more and more towers throughout the country, thereby attracting new customers, offering fast Internet and mobile communications, which are supported in almost every corner of the country.

The price, in turn, depends on the package that the client purchases. The package indicates the number of permissive minutes, MB and GB of Internet that can be used, as well as SMS. And the more allowed, the higher the price will be.

Let's move on to the test. How did you measure it, what results did you get?

We used the publicly available OOKLA Speedtest Custom service. For those who don’t know, OOKLA is the most popular Internet speed test site in the world, visited by more than 140 million people every month.

Through Speedtest Custom, we posted a public testing code on iPhones.ru, from which we received data once every 24 hours.

This data is partially anonymized - from it we cannot understand who exactly carried out the measurement. IP addresses are masked exactly half, and geolocation is recorded only for the nearest town or region.

Comparison of tariffs of mobile operators in 2021

Every year, mobile operators introduce new tariffs to the market, which always have some special features. But most of all now the emphasis is on the availability of mobile Internet. Moreover, tariffs with greater access are sold out first.

Operators will also come up with separate tariffs for young people and separate tariffs for older people.

What is the average speed in the 5 largest cities of the Russian Federation

Moscow: 31.4 Megabit/s download, 16.6 Megabit/s upload

St. Petersburg: 25 Megabit/s download, 13.8 Megabit/s upload

Novosibirsk: 33.3 Megabit/s for download, 12 Megabit/s for upload

Yekaterinburg: 21.9 Megabit/s for download, 13.9 Megabit/s for upload

Nizhny Novgorod: 29.7 Megabit/s for download, 17.4 Megabit/s for upload

Comment: It is not surprising that regions can overtake Moscow in terms of mobile Internet speed. As a rule, the infrastructure of cellular networks outside Moscow has been updated in the last ten years.

In regional centers, it is easier and cheaper for operators to install new base stations and upgrade other equipment, ultimately achieving higher speeds than in the capital.

The MTT operator has both mobile and landline numbers

MTT has 3148510 numbers.

Regions where MTT is represented

Only those regions in which there is an official operator are listed here. If the region is not on the list, this does not mean that MTT does not catch 100% there, but if the operator is on the list, the connection will be there

Mobile regions where there is an operator:

• Northwestern Federal District Leningrad region and the city of St. Petersburg (codes: 999, 989, 958, 923) - more details

• Central Federal District Moscow region and the city of Moscow (codes: 996, 995, 994, 993, 992, 989, 986, 985, 984, 983, 982, 981, 980, 977, 969, 966, 958, 939 , 938 , 936 , 934, 933, 932, 931, 930, 924, 923, 912, 901) - more details city of Moscow (code: 901) - more details

• Voronezh region (codes: 994, 966, 958) - more details

• Ural Federal District Sverdlovsk Region (codes: 994, 966, 958, 936) - more details

• Chelyabinsk region (codes: 994, 991, 958) - more details

• Volga Federal District, Nizhny Novgorod Region (codes: 993, 991, 958) - more details

• Republic of Tatarstan (codes: 993, 958, 932) - more details

• Samara region (codes: 992, 958, 938) - more details

• Siberian Federal District Omsk Region (codes: 992, 986, 958, 934) - more details

• Novosibirsk region (codes: 980, 958) - more details

• Southern Federal District Krasnodar Territory (codes: 988, 958, 934, 933) - more details

• Rostov region (codes: 977, 958, 923) - more details

MTT coverage map (only mobile network is taken into account)

Stationary locations where MTT is presented:

• Northwestern Federal District Leningrad region and the city of St. Petersburg (codes: 999, 989, 958, 923)

• Central Federal District Moscow region and the city of Moscow (codes: 996, 995, 994, 993, 992, 989, 986, 985, 984, 983, 982, 981, 980, 977, 969, 966, 958, 939 , 938 , 936 , 934, 933, 932, 931, 930, 924, 923, 912, 901) Moscow city (code: 901)

• Voronezh region (codes: 994, 966, 958)

• Ural Federal District Sverdlovsk Region (codes: 994, 966, 958, 936)

• Chelyabinsk region (codes: 994, 991, 958)

• Volga Federal District, Nizhny Novgorod Region (codes: 993, 991, 958)

• Republic of Tatarstan (codes: 993, 958, 932)

• Samara region (codes: 992, 958, 938)

• Siberian Federal District Omsk Region (codes: 992, 986, 958, 934)

• Novosibirsk region (codes: 980, 958)

• Southern Federal District Krasnodar Territory (codes: 988, 958, 934, 933)

• Rostov region (codes: 977, 958, 923)

What is a cell phone number

A ten-digit identifier consisting of a provider code and a unique set of numbers is a mobile phone number. In the international format there is also a country index (for Russia +7). Def codes (operator identifiers) consist of three digits; numbering starts from nine. These are non-geographic telephone indexes, thanks to which it is possible to determine the subscriber's communication service provider, but companies no longer have a monopoly on them. You can switch, for example, from MTS to Megafon while maintaining the same set of numbers.

The transfer service is still available to a small number of people, and it is still possible to find out where an unknown person is calling from. For the same reason, number codes of Russian mobile operators remain in demand. Def are not considered classified information and are located in open databases. They encode not only information about the provider, but also about the region in which the number is registered (within a range of regions, and not a specific city or region).

Additional options and services

Here the leadership finally went to Beeline. This television system showed results in 100% of delivered SMS. The overall message delivery rating looks like this:

• Beeline is the absolute leader - 100% of messages delivered;
• Tele2 – 1.2% of messages not received;
• MegaFon – 1.7% of undelivered SMS;
• MTS – 2.4% of text messages not received.

As you can see, different categories have their own winners and losers. But still, when choosing an operator, we recommend relying on your own cellular needs.