For regular customers, Megafon offers an individual offer - a line of “More” tariffs. These tariff plans are non-public; they are also called “hidden Megafon tariffs”. The way it is. It is impossible to find them in the current tariffs section - they simply are not there. Even if you type the name “More” or “More discoveries” in the search on the official Megafon website, you won’t get anything similar to information about the tariff.
Why such secrecy? Most likely, the reason is the cheapness of the tariff - the monthly fee is only 90 rubles. For this money, you can talk to Megafon subscribers in your home region for as long as you want and correspond with them through popular instant messengers. But it also has disadvantages: paid calls to other regions of the country, even to Megafon subscribers, as well as a small amount of Internet traffic - only 1 GB.
Tariff description
Tariff conditions differ slightly depending on the subscriber’s place of residence. For users who live in Moscow and the region, services are available at a price of 3 rubles per day. Approximately 90 rubles per month. For this price the subscriber receives:
- Unlimited calls online;
- 1 GB mobile internet;
- Unlimited Internet for using various instant messengers, including TamTam, Viber and WhatsApp.
Unlimited calls are relevant both in the home region and when traveling around Russia. The same goes for the Internet.
If your Internet limit has expired, you can enable the auto-renewal service in your personal account or wait for the activation of a new traffic package.
The conditions for the provision of communication services differ in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Here you will have to pay 2.2 rubles per MB for the Internet, and outgoing calls to numbers of any operators will cost 3 rubles per minute.
If your mobile internet runs out
Many line owners believe that 1 GB is not enough, because they are active Internet users. For such cases, automatic connection of an additional package of 100 MB worth 35 rubles is provided. Daily limit – 15 orders. The main condition is the availability of money in the account.
There is another offer from the operator - “Extend the Internet”. If you connect it, the amount for it is first debited, and then you can use the 100 MB provided.
“Extend Internet” – access to the Internet if the main traffic package is exhausted.
Price :
- for 1 GB – 170 rubles;
- for 7 GB – 250 rubles;
- for 18 GB – 400 rubles;
- for 30 GB – 550 rub.
Expert opinion
Milan
Expert in the field of mobile communications. Megafon employee.
As a bonus, the provider gives unlimited use of the MegaFon TV program and gives a subscription for a year to watch channels and movies.
How to connect
For many users, the “More Discoveries” tariff is not available. You cannot switch to it by visiting a communication salon. Moreover, there is no mention of this plan even in your personal account. How to switch to such a favorable tariff? There are several solutions.
- The MegaFon office is writing a statement regarding the transition to another mobile operator. In most cases, after a couple of days, a MegaFon employee calls the subscriber and offers something new; it may well be a tariff from the “More” line. You can even hint at your interest in this tariff plan. But there is one caveat. If a subscriber doesn’t talk much and spends almost no money on communications, then the operator is not very interested in him and may not wait for a call.
- Wait, perhaps soon a favorable tariff will appear in the “Personal offer” column. This service was launched about a year ago, you can see it in your personal account. In addition, you can find out about personal offers by calling 0909 or visiting the mobile application. Here you can find bonuses, discounts, as well as additional packages of minutes or Internet traffic.
The MegaFon operator mainly offers the “More” line to those who have an archived tariff plan or services without a monthly fee.
Those subscribers who, according to the terms of the tariff, pay decent money for communications, will most likely not see the “More Discoveries” package.
How to disable
You cannot simply turn off the tariff, since some tariff plan must always be activated on the SIM card. To opt out of “More discoveries”, select another current tariff in Megafon’s line and switch to it.
To change the tariff:
- Log in to your Personal Account.
- Scroll down to the "Services" category.
- Open the "Tariff" section.
- Click the "Change tariff" button.
- Select a suitable replacement from the options provided.
- Click "Go to tariff".
- Confirm the action.
The previous tariff will be switched off automatically. After this, it will not be possible to return it - it is given only once as an exclusive offer.
Additional options
According to user reviews, the closed line is very profitable financially. In addition to unlimited calls on the network and unlimited Internet, a number of additional options are available to subscribers.
- After exhausting the Internet limit, the subscriber is provided with 200 MB for 35 rubles. Moreover, the packages are not limited;
- You can connect caller ID, which will allow you to see the caller’s details;
- AntiAON – helps you hide your number. A one-time request costs 5 rubles;
- SMS check – notification of account replenishment;
- I’m online – subscribers who couldn’t get through receive a message that the number is within the network coverage area;
- Waiting service. The first 10 requests will cost 5 rubles, then the option is free.
Users have access to the “Worry-Free Vacation” option, which includes special conditions for using communication services in the Crimea. For just 33 rubles per day, subscribers have access to unlimited incoming calls, and for 99 rubles, 60 MB of Internet is provided.
The subscription fee is charged daily. When switching to this tariff, traffic is provided in full in all cases.
Fares for travel around the world
The cost of using roaming while traveling depends on the country you are visiting. Exact information with prices is available on the official website and is provided to users of the tariff program and MegaFon subscribers.
Roaming costs depend on the country you are visiting.
To view prices, follow these steps:
- Go to the “World Travel” section, where the search window is located.
- Enter the country into it.
- Click on the "Find" icon.
Advantages and disadvantages
This tariff plan has both its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages include:
- Low monthly fee;
- Free use of messengers;
- Unlimited calls within the network;
- Transparent and understandable conditions.
The non-public tariff also has its own number of disadvantages. Basically, subscribers are not satisfied with the following points:
- Lack of a package of minutes for calls to numbers of other operators;
- There is no way to switch to the tariff yourself;
- A small amount of traffic, which is not enough for a number of users;
- Overpriced additional internet packages.
MegaFon's closed tariff is quite attractive compared to other tariff plans for 2021. The huge disadvantage is that it is only available to a limited number of people.
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Calls and SMS, which are paid separately
Not all outgoing conversations and messages are free. For example, residents of Crimea who call other regions of Russia will have to pay 3 rubles for 1 minute of conversation, and 2 rubles for 1 SMS.
The table shows other types of separately paid calls and messages:
| Features of calling/SMS direction | Cost for communication with other regions (in rubles) | ||
| Calls (1 minute) | SMS | MMS | |
| Other MegaFon packages | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Numbers of other providers | 12,5 | 2 | 7 |
| Intraregional connection | |||
| All MegaFon offers | – | 2 | 7 |
| Numbers of other operators | 2 | 2 | 7 |
How MegaFon's new family tariff works
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“Family” offers from mobile operators usually boil down to offering some large package of minutes and Internet so that subscribers take it from the “common pot.” That's all. However, family is not just mom, dad and TikToker son. There are grandparents who “don’t need your Internet,” and even minutes - they don’t call anyone except their relatives. It’s more important to control that they don’t run out of money in their account and don’t add any strange subscriptions by accident. There are also children of preschool and primary school age who are just beginning to master phones and smartphones (or even watches), for whom it is important to always be in touch. With parents, of course.
In addition, the family does not necessarily live under the same roof and have a common budget. For example, we have my wife and children, my parents, her parents, my grandmother, her grandmother... Everyone has their own tariff that is convenient for them, and each household pays for communications itself. Especially grandmothers - just try to put money on their phone, they are on their own and not helpless, they want to do everything themselves while they can.
But of course, I am in charge of distributing phones, setting tariffs, checking balances, and all this. As the most advanced in this regard. I suspect that in the average Russian family this is also done by a man in the prime of his life. Especially for such large families, MegaFon introduced the “First Family” tariff, which I immediately began to study.
So, first let's talk about .
Its essence is this: you can combine up to 10 numbers into a group (the 11th is the organizer) and get additional benefits for this. Firstly, these are free and unlimited calls for all subscribers within the group, including those with a zero balance. Secondly, prevention of accidental subscriptions and NOD32 antivirus for Android smartphones are provided free of charge.
The first is relevant primarily for numbers of children and older family members. As a rule, children and grandparents are given push-button phones or even some sort of watch-phone. They make very few calls, so package rates with minutes and internet are definitely not profitable. Previously, it was necessary to connect the good old per-minute billing, which immediately creates a headache: constantly monitor the balance of all these numbers. With “My Family” the problem is solved very simply - a child or grandparent can always call you. In general, you can actually keep a minimum positive balance on their numbers, or a conditional ruble, because, by and large, they have no one to talk to except within the family. And with “Protection”, they will not spend all the money from the account by accidentally responding to some advertising SMS - they will need to send an informed confirmation.
At the same time, the organizer of the group - apparently, this will be the head of the family - sees in a special section of the MegaFon mobile application the balances of all participants and the balances of packages if the tariff plans of family members include some volumes of traffic. At the same time, notifications are received that the balance is approaching zero. Accordingly, you can quickly top up the accounts of all family members or set up automatic payments for all numbers.
It is important that the tariff plans of all family members do not change after joining a group, that is, “My Family” is not about general packages of minutes and gigabytes for everyone, but rather about ease of management and control. At the same time, the creator of the group does not receive full access to the personal account of family members; for example, he cannot order details of conversations; the right to do this is reserved for each subscriber. However, MegaFon has had the opportunity to combine personal accounts for a long time - this requires separate confirmation for each subscriber.
The organizer of the group can be a subscriber of MegaFon’s current package tariffs - these are the lines “#WithoutOverpayments”, “Turn On”, “Unite”, and the members of the group can be subscribers of any tariffs, even without a subscription fee. While you can create groups of numbers from the same region, we plan to add support for numbers from different regions later.
It is important that there is no fee for adding numbers to a group or “subscribers” for being in it, like a number of other operators.
In order to create a group, on the main page in the mobile application you need to open the “My Family” section, enter the name and number - one person or all of them at once. After that, by clicking the “Create a family” button, all invitees receive SMS messages from MegaFon informing them that they have been invited to the family, what this gives and how to confirm the invitation. To agree, you need to either press the appropriate button in the MegaFon mobile application, or, if there is no application, send a free SMS with the text “Yes” to number 4444. During the experiment, we took a phone that cannot send Russian SMS and wrote “Da” translit: it works that way too, everything is thought out.
If one subscriber is invited to several family groups, then he will be included in the latest one - since he can only be a member of one group. There are few options for managing a group in the application: adding and removing participants, renaming them, setting up automatic payments and managing packages of minutes and gigabytes for those subscribers who are connected to the “First Family” tariff.
Now I’ll tell you more about the “First Family” tariff. It is interesting because when added to a family group, the subscriber receives not only unlimited calls within the family, but also unlimited instant messengers, as well as free 1 GB of traffic monthly. It's essentially a free plan, ideal for kids on their first phone. In addition, you can buy additional packages of minutes, gigabytes and SMS for this tariff, making it easily tailored to the needs of adult family members and teenagers. That is, the tariff can grow with the child.
When connecting to the “First Family” tariff, the subscriber receives a SIM card on which only per-minute calling charging is enabled and the “Internet Blocking” option is enabled. You can turn it off, and then 100 MB of traffic per day will be available for 10 rubles, these funds will be debited automatically on the days when the subscriber uses the Internet. This is mainly designed to ensure that the subscriber’s number is promptly connected to the “My Family” group, where traffic to instant messengers is not charged and there is a free monthly gigabyte of Internet.
1 GB of Internet for a month may be enough for a child to surf the Internet inactively, chat with a voice assistant and start getting acquainted with social networks, without being stuck on TikTok, of course. When the gigabyte comes to an end, the “basic Internet” package will be automatically connected - 100 MB per day for 10 rubles, therefore, when the owner of the tariff gets used to the network, in most cases additional traffic packages will be required. You can connect from 1 to 30 GB at a price of 2-14 rubles per day, and with a 10 and 20 GB package there will be unlimited access to social networks, and with 30 GB – also to YouTube.
There you can also buy packages of minutes for other local calls: 50, 100 or 200 minutes per month with a subscription fee from 2 to 6.5 rubles per day (that is, the unit cost of a minute will be slightly higher than 1 ruble). In fact, this makes it possible to provide a schoolchild or pensioner with communications for any scenario: basically, he will call other family members for free and unlimited, and 50 minutes is enough for calls, for example, to a courier, to a clinic, etc. Or if grandma has a chatty friend, she can also be added to the group.
By the way, there is another option: blocking the Internet, except instant messengers. It is suitable for those cases when you want your child to always be in touch on WhatsApp/Telegram, but not spend hours on social networks.
Especially for owners of push-button phones, 6 SMS packages will be relevant: from 30 pieces per month to 100 pieces per day.
MegaFon was able to unite a family without changing tariff plans: when joining a group, only free communication within it appears, balance control and protection from subscriptions, and all this is free. And for children and pensioners on the “First Family” tariff, communication is completely free - due to this, the operator will most likely be able to increase its active subscriber base.
Minutes, SMS and MMS
There is no limit on call minutes within the tariff. Subscribers can communicate as much as they want. SMS messages are not included in the package and are paid separately. To any numbers in the Russian Federation – 2 rubles/pcs., to subscribers of other countries – 6 rubles/pcs.
MMS are also not included in the subscription fee. When sending multimedia within Russia, 7 rubles per piece is withdrawn from the account. When a message is sent to subscribers located in the CIS countries, Ukraine, Georgia, Abkhazia and North Ossetia, it costs 10 rubles per piece. To other countries – 20 rubles/piece.
Who is suitable for the “More discoveries” tariff?
The tariff is beneficial for those clients who rarely look at the Internet and call exclusively within their region. But not everyone can switch, since operators independently select subscribers who receive an offer.
The tariff is beneficial to customers who call exclusively within their region.
In what cases is there a chance to receive a special offer:
- there are no mandatory payments;
- when purchasing a cheap tariff;
- the client has not used the SIM card for a long time or has not topped up the account;
- when filing complaints about the quality of service, the presence of unfavorable offers, etc.
Review of tariff features. Piggy Bank and Protection from Paid Subscriptions
In addition to prepaid traffic and call packages, the tariffs of the #NoOverpayments line provide several interesting services. There are more of them in the All tariff than anywhere else.
Internet on messengers even at zero. If you spend the package, you will still be able to use WhatsApp, Viber, eMotion (MegaFon messenger), Facebook Messenger, TamTam and Snapchat. Everything would be fine, but I don’t understand why Telegram was so offended. They don’t want to block him anymore, guys, ah!
Unlimited on social networks . The Internet package will not be consumed at all while you use Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Everything here is completely OK, except if they added YouTube, it would be a freebie.
Internet piggy bank. Already explained how it works. I just forgot to add that the piggy bank is used up only after the main package is exhausted. But in the process of preparing the review, I noticed one more detail. The capacity of the piggy bank varies depending on the tariff:
If you subsequently accumulate more GB than the maximum capacity, the remainder on top of it will be burned. For subscribers of the “Everything” tariff, I think the ceiling of 100 GB is gorgeous, it’s more than three times more than the monthly package.
Internet distribution. The entire volume of traffic under the tariff is available for distribution from a smartphone to any other devices without additional payment or connection of services. After the package is exhausted, gigabytes from the Piggy Bank will be used. There is nothing to add, this is exactly what everyone should do, respect.
Protection against paid subscriptions. A sore subject, of course. A particularly important service for children and elderly users. This is not exactly a ban on subscriptions entirely, but rather protection from truly accidental connections. Moreover, it works even on the Internet, and not just through typical short numbers.
When you try to connect to a paid service or subscription, you will receive an additional notification asking you to confirm your request. The money will be debited if you confirm the connection of the subscription; if you click “Cancel” or simply close the window, the connection will not occur.
I tried for several hours to find at least one paid subscription on the Internet to check how it works, but alas. Send me a link to some such trash if you know:
In any case, any additional warning from the operator is better than none.
Access to Megafon TV. There's not much to discuss here. You download the Megafon TV application from the App Store or Google Play, log in using your number and get access to 63 channels. Convenient and does not consume mobile traffic. The only thing is that films and other channels are already available with a paid subscription (there are 30 days of free testing), but this is optional.
Charging the subscription fee
To activate the tariff plan, you need to top up your account with at least 3 rubles so that it is enough to pay for 1 day. As soon as the operator withdraws the required amount, all services are immediately provided.
To activate the tariff plan you need to top up your account.
Every day 3 rubles are debited, but after a month the package must be renewed. The date and time are calculated based on the initial connection of the program.
Expert opinion
Milan
Expert in the field of mobile communications. Megafon employee.
If the required amount is not in the account, traffic is blocked - you will not be able to call or send a message for free.
Additional Information
The subscription fee is debited monthly in full, with the exception of the first month, when the payment is debited in two installments. If the client does not top up the phone balance on time, the subscription fee will be debited after the required amount of money appears in the account.
If the client, in addition to the proposed Internet traffic limit, used 15 “Auto-renewal” packages, then to resume access to the global network, you must activate the “Internet Extension” option.
In each new period, the service package is renewed, the remaining traffic is not saved.
Thus, the favorable conditions of the “All Inclusive - S” product made it in demand and popular among consumers. Thanks to the ability to spend the components of the service package not only in the connection area, but also in other regions of Russia, citizens can safely go on a trip and not think about changing the tariff.
