18.04.2020
Basic information
Subscription fee: 0 rub. ;Calls: 12 RUR/10 min. — packaged provision of services; SMS: 1.9 rubles/SMS – Home region, 3.9 rubles/SMS – throughout Russia; Internet: 12 rubles/100 MB .
There is no monthly subscription fee for this tariff plan . The subscriber is provided with 6 packages of 10 minutes for 12 rubles per call package per day to numbers in the Home region. The package is activated upon the first call per day; after the first package expires, the second one is activated automatically and the cost of the package is written off.
The “Call your friends” option is activated automatically when you connect to this tariff plan or switch to it. Its connection is free, and the subscription fee for use is 4 rubles/day . After the end of the daily volume of minutes, payment is made according to the tariff plan without an option, i.e. at a price of 1 rub/min.
Calls within Russia
Calls to Megafon numbers within the Home region are charged at a rate of 1.5 rubles/min ; when calling to other numbers in the Home region, a different price applies - 2 rubles/min ; calls to Megafon numbers in other regions of Russia will be charged at a rate of 2 .5 rub/min , to numbers of other mobile operators in Russia – 10 rub/min . For clarity, the pricing is shown below :
The price is indicated per minute of conversation.
Calls to neighboring countries
Calls to Megafon Tajikistan subscribers are charged at a rate of 4 rubles/min , for calls to numbers of other cellular operators in Tajikistan - 10 rubles/min. Calls to Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan cost 7 rubles/min., to Kazakhstan - 5 rubles/min. , to South Ossetia - 3 rubles/min. , to China - 1 rub./min., to Turkmenistan - 10 rub./min. , to Armenia - 12 rubles/min., to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova - 20 rubles/min., to Belarus - 25 rubles/min. For clarity, all data is given below :
The price is indicated per minute of conversation.
Calls to other countries
Calls to other countries also have different tariffs:
- The cost per minute of a call to India, South Korea, Thailand, and Mongolia is 2 rubles .
- a call to Vietnam, Taiwan, Macau, Japan costs 5 rubles/min
- to Turkey – 7 rub/min
- calls to Europe, including Israel, are made at a rate of 55 rubles/min .
- to other countries, including the USA and Canada – 75 rubles/min .
- A call via satellite communication systems (TURAYA, Inmarsat, MCP, GlobalStar) will cost 313 rubles. per minute of conversation.
SMS and MMS
The cost of SMS to any numbers in the Home region without options is 1.9 rubles/SMS , MMS to any numbers in Russia is 7 rubles/ mms . The cost of sending an SMS message to the numbers of any operators in other regions of Russia is 3.9 rubles/SMS . SMS to numbers in the CIS countries, Abkhazia, Georgia, Ukraine and South Ossetia are charged at a rate of 3 rubles/SMS , to numbers in other countries - 5 rubles/SMS . The cost of sending MMS to the already mentioned CIS countries and Abkhazia, Georgia, Ukraine and South Ossetia is 10 rubles/MMS , to other countries – 20 rubles/MMS . For clarity, the pricing is presented below. Prices are indicated for one SMS or MMS message .
When you activate the SMS XXS option, 10 free SMS messages are provided daily. For the first 10 days, using the option is free, then the fee is charged at a rate of 3.5 rubles/day . This option is suitable for people who are sure that they will send no more than ten messages daily, since in this case their daily fee of 3.5 rubles .
Mobile Internet
Within this tariff plan, the Mobile Internet service with the XS option is provided at a rate of 70 MB/day . no speed limit. The cost of using this option is free in the first seven days, and in subsequent days it is 7 rubles / day . Without connected options, mobile Internet is provided in packages at a rate of 12 rubles / 100 MB . When one package is used up, the next one is activated automatically.
Services included in the tariff
- Caller ID
- MMS
- Mobile Internet
- Call waiting
- Conference call
- Barring a call from the device
- "Long distance and international access"
- International roaming
- Kaleidoscope
- MegaFon Mail
- He called+
- SIM menu services
- SMS check
- I called+
- Call yours
- Replace the horn
- MegaFon - Tajikistan
Payment upon connection or transition
Connecting to the tariff is free . Please check the amount of the initial payment in Megafon stores in your city, since prices may vary depending on the region
Connection methods
Connection to this tariff plan cannot be achieved by switching from another tariff plan . In order to use the “Warm Welcome” tariff, you need to purchase a SIM card at communication stores in your region.
You can find all the necessary information about the “Warm Welcome” tariff plan in one document here:
MegaFon tariff “Warm welcome M”: detailed description
The monthly subscription fee in Moscow and the region on the MegaFon “Warm Welcome M” tariff is 600 rubles. Check the cost in other regions on the operator’s website.
For this money, the subscriber receives monthly:
- 500 minutes for making calls to any mobile numbers in your home region and MegaFon phones throughout the country;
- Unlimited outgoing calls within the MegaFon network throughout Russia (unfortunately, calls consume a package of minutes);
- 300 text messages to send to any numbers in Russia and CIS countries;
- Unlimited mobile internet;
Be careful about call limits: first, 500 minutes are spent on all phones, and only then unlimited calls within the MegaFon network begin to apply.
Additional fare conditions
- When using the provided minute quota, calls are charged in the direction to MegaFon Russia/other numbers in the connection region: 0/2.00 rub. per minute of conversation;
- If you use a package of SMS messages, tariffs for messages in the connection region/CIS country are as follows: 1.50/3.00 rub. for 1 message;
- Calls to phone numbers throughout the country (except MegaFon): 12.50 rubles per minute;
- Sending multimedia messages in Russia: 7 rubles per 1 message;
- When all the provided traffic is used, Internet access is blocked. You can extend your access when you connect.
Additional Information
As part of the tariff, the client allocates additional services.
Some of them are provided free of charge, for the use of others money is debited from the account. A subscriber who has activated “Warm Welcome” can use the following options:
- Call holding and waiting.
- "Who called". This feature helps you find out from which numbers calls were made when the phone was turned off.
- "I called". When using this service, a subscriber who received a call from the number holder, but did not have enough money to connect, will receive a message about an attempt to contact him.
- Caller ID and one-time anti-identifier.
Before connecting to a new tariff, it is important to find out which options are free and which features you will have to pay to use. If the latter are not needed, the subscriber can deactivate them. This measure will avoid unnecessary expenses.
How to activate the “Warm Welcome M” tariff from MegaFon [tariff closed, connection impossible]
I remind you that the “Warm Welcome” tariff plan is available for calls to the CIS and Asia
You can connect a tariff in several ways:
- When purchasing a SIM card at company offices in your city or in the MegaFon online store;
- In your personal account on the operator’s website (how to register a personal account: instructions);
- Using USSD combination *105*1083#;
- When sending a text message YES to the number 05001083;
- In the voice menu when calling a toll-free number 05001083.
Connecting a tariff package occurs almost instantly. It is also important to note that when switching to a tariff plan, the subscription fee is debited in the amount of half the monthly amount, that is, in the amount of 250 rubles. At the same time, subscribers are provided with only half of the services specified in the terms and conditions. Starting from the second half of the month, the second part of the subscription payment is debited from the subscriber's account, which activates the second part of the services.
Starting from the second month of using the offer, the subscription payment is debited according to the conditions - once a month.
Terms of service
In order to take advantage of the option to connect to the option that allows you to make cheap calls abroad, you should consider several points:
- First of all, the subscriber's tariff package must support the roaming call service itself.
- The service is not available to users who have special preferential terms from Megafon, which are valid thanks to the MegaFon-MLT discount.
- The service is used on a prepayment basis - for the first month (30 days) 60 rubles are withdrawn, subsequent withdrawals occur daily in the amount of 2.00 rubles per day.
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How to check
Finally, it is also worth noting possible options for checking the remaining quotas and services within the framework of this offer from MegaFon. You can always find out the latest information in your personal account or using a request *558#.
Basic information
Subscription fee: 650 rubles/month ; Calls: 500 min to Megafon of Russia and to numbers of other operators in the Home region; SMS: 300 SMS messages to mobile numbers in the CIS countries and the Home region; Internet: unlimited in the Home region.
The subscription fee in this tariff plan is 650 rubles/month . For this money the subscriber receives
- unlimited calls to Megafon numbers in Russia
- unlimited 3G/4G+ Internet traffic in the Home region
The subscription fee is charged every month on the day of activation or transition to this tariff plan.
Services not included in the subscription fee
- The cost of calls to numbers of other mobile operators in Russia is 10 rubles/min.
- The cost of SMS messages to Russian mobile numbers is 2.55 rubles/SMS
- MMS messages – 9.9 rub/MMS
If you run out of minutes, SMS or Internet
When paid minutes, SMS or Internet expire, the following tariffs apply:
- a minute of call to a Megafon subscriber is free, calls to subscribers of other cellular operators in the Home region are paid at a rate of 2 rubles/min.
- Tariff for sending SMS messages in the Home region is 2.55 rubles/SMS , to mobile numbers of CIS countries – 11 rubles/SMS .
When Internet traffic expires, Megafon offers an Internet renewal service:
Calls to neighboring countries
Calls to Megafon Tajikistan subscribers are charged at a rate of 2.5 rubles/min , for calls to numbers of other cellular operators in Tajikistan - 10 rubles/min. Calls to Ukraine and Uzbekistan cost 3.5 rubles/min., to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan - 3 rubles/min . , to South Ossetia - 2 rubles/min. , to China - 0.9 rubles/min., to Turkmenistan - 7 rubles/min. , to Armenia - 10 rubles/min., to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova - 15 rubles/min., to Belarus - 20 rubles/min. For clarity, all data is shown below. The price is per minute of conversation .
Calls to other countries
Calls to other countries also have different tariffs:
- The cost per minute of a call to India, South Korea, Thailand, and Mongolia is 2 rubles.
- a call to Taiwan, Macau, Japan costs 5 rubles/min.
- to Turkey – 7 rubles/min.
- calls to Europe, including Israel, are made at a rate of 55 rubles/min .
- to other countries, including the USA and Canada – 75 rubles/min .
- A call via satellite communication systems (TURAYA, Inmarsat, MCP, GlobalStar) will cost 313 rubles. per minute of conversation.
Services included in the tariff
- Caller ID
- MMS
- Mobile Internet
- Zero problems
- Call forwarding
- Call waiting
- Call hold
- Conference call
- Who called+
- Kaleidoscope
- MegaFon-Bonus
- SIM menu services
Payment upon connection or transition
The transition to this tariff plan is free. The required initial payment is 335 rubles .
Connection methods
Use one of the methods to quickly connect to a tariff:
You can find all the necessary information about the “Warm Welcome M” tariff plan in one document here:
User impressions
Judging by the comments left by clients of the Megafon operator, in general the service has taken root well among them and is quite popular:
Oleg: “I recently discovered a very advantageous offer from Megafon - “Call all countries”, now you don’t have to fork out money for calls to your business partners.”
Irina: “In connection with my move to Germany for permanent residence, I was very worried about how I could keep in touch with my mother, but Megafon was a great help in this situation - the “Call all countries” option is an excellent solution to such problems.”
Oksana: “My work involves frequent business trips, during which I very often had to save on communications, because my colleagues and relatives had to shell out quite a lot of money in order to contact me. Now this is in the past - I got many people hooked on it - now I can talk with my husband for hours (of course, he is not always happy about this, but that’s another story).”
Tariff plan – “Warm welcome”
Each telecom operator has a sufficient number of tariff plans in its arsenal. In addition, such tariffs include packages that minimize and save funds on your balance when communicating with other countries. MegaFon keeps up with this trend and offers its customers a profitable line of plans called “Warm Welcome”. The family of plans allows you to talk on favorable terms within the territory of Russia, as well as with other world countries.
Regarding the “Warm Welcome” tariff, subscribers will not pay a subscription fee. But this privilege applies only to this plan. Tariffs “S and M” include a monthly fee. All tariffs from the line provide inexpensive calls within the network, as well as relatively cheap calls between other cities and countries.
It should be noted that our article describes the conditions for Moscow and the Moscow region. Rates for your region can be found on the official website megafon.ru.
What is this tariff?
When developing this service, it was divided into several separate tariff plans, where one of them did not include a subscription fee, while the other two did. This Megafon tariff involves making low-cost calls to certain destinations, namely countries such as:
- Abkhazia and South Ossetia;
- Azerbaijan and Belarus;
- Armenia and Georgia;
- Ukraine and Moldova;
- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan;
- Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
When you connect to the service, prices for such calls will become significantly lower and will no longer be prohibitive.
Prices and description of the tariff plan
This package does not provide for the removal of the subscription fee. This means that there will be no unnecessary write-offs. Calls are billed on a per-minute basis, each minute is paid for, but at a certain price. This scheme is standard for similar plans.
It is worth noting that an additional service can be installed in addition to the tariff, which will provide unlimited service within the MegaFon network. Of course, the distinctive feature of the plan is its cost for communicating with different countries around the world.
Line of “Warm Welcome” tariffs and their differences
If the “Warm Welcome” plan does not provide for package services, as well as a subscription fee, then the “S and M” tariffs include a whole range of services provided. Naturally, you will need to pay for them. Payment is made according to a fixed monthly fee.
"Warm Welcome S" includes 150 free messages per month to send them in your home region, as well as to people in the CIS. In addition, it is possible to talk for free for 300 minutes with different operators throughout the country. Unlimited calls within the network. The package also includes 2 GB of traffic for accessing the Internet. This tariff implies payment of only 10 rubles/day, which is 300 rubles/month.
“Warm Welcome M” is larger than its younger brother. Of course, the cost of the package is higher and amounts to 16.67 rubles/day or 500 rubles/month. It includes:
- 550 minutes of free calls within Russia;
- 350 SMS for sending to CIS countries, as well as for use on a home network;
- 5 GB of Internet traffic.
Cost of services according to plan
- To make calls in the SIM card activation region, the cost of services will be:
- A minute of communication with users who have subscribed to this tariff is 1 rub.
- Communication within the network – 1.5 rubles/min.
- Communication with subscribers of other telecom operators – 2 rubles/min.
If you connect from Megafon, then the cost of communicating with subscribers using “Warm Welcome” is 0 kopecks/min. This service provides 100 free minutes for talking with people at the same rates. The cost of the service is 4 rubles/day.
To communicate with people outside your home region, the cost of calls will be:
- For MegaFon operator numbers – 2.5 rubles/min.
- For calls to other Russian operators throughout the territory – 10 rubles/min.
- Internet tariff is very expensive. Payment is made per megabyte used. Thus, the cost of 1 MB will be 9.9 rubles.
To optimize Internet costs, it is better to use a special option from the company called “Internet XS”. With its activation, the payment will be 7 rubles/day. For this money, 70 MB of traffic per day will be provided.
Warm Welcome messages will cost:
- One text message in your region – 2.5 rubles.
- One text message, regardless of region, but only to subscribers using MegaFon communications – 3 rubles.
- For other subscribers in Russia, the price per SMS is 3.55 rubles.
- Exchange of SMS with residents of Ukraine, Georgia and the CIS – 3 rubles.
- One message sent to other countries – 5 rubles.
- The price for MMS messages within Russia is 7 rubles.
- The price for MMS messages sent to the CIS, Ukraine or Georgia is 10 rubles.
- The price for MMS messages sent anywhere in the world is 20 rubles.
For cheaper messaging, it is better to activate the Unlimited SMS service.
How to switch to Megafon “Warm Welcome” tariff
You can connect to a plan in different ways. Since this tariff is used to a greater extent by people who have come to the country for a certain period of time, for such subscribers it is suitable to purchase a starter package at a communication store. Its cost is low - 200 rubles. The money that will be paid for the starter package, after its activation, will be transferred to the phone balance. Thus, the purchase is free. The main thing is to have your passport at hand. With its help you can make a purchase. If subscribers want to replace the current tariff with “Warm Welcome”, then you can use the following methods:
- You will need to dial the service code on your phone, which will activate the tariff on the number. The dial looks like *105*896# . After entering it, you should make a call and wait up to 24 hours for the plan to be activated. An SMS notification will be sent as confirmation.
- You can also send SMS with or without any text. The dispatch number is toll-free 0500946 . And by calling a toll-free number, you can call up a voice menu, with the help of which you can activate the tariff on your number.
- If you have access to the network, then it is better to use your personal account on the MegaFon website. Connecting through the cabinet will be more clear and simple. But before entering, you will need to go through a minute-long registration and receive an access password.
- If the subscriber uses an application from a telecom operator on his phone, then switching to a plan is possible through it. If the application is not installed, you can see the download link on the website or go to the market and download there. The application is very convenient, and all the necessary information on the SIM card is always at hand. Specialists at any company store will always help you switch to the tariff. There is no charge for activating the plan, but the SIM card owner must have a passport.
Even taking into account the fact that there is no monthly fee when switching to a tariff, you need an amount of no less than 300 rubles in your account. The transfer itself costs 0 kopecks.