Disabling Voka TV
Voka TV is a service that provides subscribers who have installed a special application on their phone with the opportunity to use it as a TV or cinema. All sessions and broadcasts are available around the clock.
The service can be used by individuals and legal entities located on the territory of Belarus and who have entered into an agreement with Welk for the provision of communication services.
How to turn off Voka TV on Velcom:
- in the mobile application in the “Subscriptions” tab;
- directly from the voka.tv website.
A notification that the Voka TV service on Velcom has been disabled will be sent to the subscriber’s number via SMS message. You should use the services of mobile operators as carefully as possible to avoid unnecessary expenses and connect only what you really need. To do this, it is enough to take into account the recommendations and instructions given in this material.
MTS - description
The operator himself claims that the presented option is a real guide in the client’s life. The service informs users about:
- Current and profitable services.
- Interesting news that is happening in our world.
- Useful information.
- Current poster of current entertainment.
The program receives all information from the main resources, including the following sites:
- TUT.BY.
- interfax.by.
- News service Yandex.
- lenta.ru.
- euronews.com, etc.
Thanks to this option, you will not miss a single important event. In addition, MTS Belarus clients can independently download various games and music.
MTS users complain about the sudden connection of the Zabugorishche service. What's happening
MTS users began to complain en masse on Twitter that the operator had secretly enabled the paid option Zabugorishche.
Costs 390 rubles per day. There were a lot of dissatisfied people. Everyone is outraged. Is everything really as bad as users write? Let's figure it out.
Have you seen what MTS is doing? We connected everyone to the Zabugorishche paid service. Check it out for yourself! I'm arguing with support
— Mashka Orlova (@MashkaOrlova1) April 18, 2020
Guys, WHO HAS MTS. Attentively! Go to “my mts” and check your paid services. Some people were connected and if you don’t disconnect, tomorrow they will charge you 400 rubles! I had this, thank God I was warned in time
Everyone who has MTS, check their paid subscriptions. For some reason they connected Zabugorishche to everyone, as if now is the time to travel abroad... Are you completely cuckoo there? pic.twitter.com/BNk5NLAbTc
And there are a lot of similar dissatisfaction.
The first and most important thing that many users say is that they have activated the paid option, which means they will now charge me money on a daily basis. “It’s good that I managed to turn it off.”
The bottom line is that write-off occurs only when you are outside of Russia . This service gives you access to the Internet abroad under the terms of your home tariff.
Moreover, it is not connected by the operator without your knowledge. The option is included in the initial service package and is activated when upgrading to it. This applies to the tariffs “Our Smart”, “Smart”, “Tariffische”, “Smart+”, “Smart Unlimited”, “Smart NonStop”, “My Unlimited”, “X”, “Smart Top”, “Ultra”, “My Smart", "All MTS", "All MTS Super TV".
MTS itself says this:
This option is free in the home region and on the territory of the Russian Federation; it is included in the initial package of services on the tariff and is activated when switching to it. The fee will be charged only if you use communication services and the Internet when traveling abroad
In other words, nothing bad happened. In some tariffs, the service is provided automatically. Money for it is written off only after using mobile communications and/or the Internet outside the country.
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4.48 out of 5, rated: 25)
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As in the case of the “Beep” option, this offer is not available to subscribers for free. The financial terms of the service are as follows:
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- Activation fee: none;
- Activation of a category 1 package: 3 rubles in daily format;
- Activation of a category 2 package: 6 rubles in daily format;
- Activation of a category 3 package: 25 rubles in a monthly format;
- Activation of a category 4 package: 30 rubles in a monthly format.
What is the price?
The cost of a subscription in the radio coverage area of Mobile TeleSystems JLLC for access to any thematic section of the Fanbox voice portal is 0.09 rubles. per day including VAT.
Attention! Access to each thematic section of the portal is paid separately.
When you subscribe to a thematic section for the first time, you are given a free trial period of 3 days.
Outgoing calls to the short number 2222 are not charged. The service is not provided in international roaming.
By calling the short number 2222, you confirm that you have read these Rules and express your agreement with them.
Disabling SMS “What’s New” from Velcom
The Wellcom operator provides its subscribers with an SMS newsletter called “What’s New”. This is what representatives say about this option. It begins to function by default after a person puts a SIM card in his mobile phone. Regularly, after ending an incoming or outgoing call (or sending an SMS), notifications on a variety of topics pop up on the device’s display. Subscribers who are interested in the content of the SMS newsletter simply click “OK” and study the detailed information, as well as use Velcom’s entertainment services.”
There is no subscription fee for using SMS messaging, but if the user accidentally presses the “OK” button, he may suffer serious financial losses. The most vulnerable in this situation are the elderly and young children, who may, without reading the notification, confirm the action only to close the interfering window. This can lead to spending more than a thousand rubles for receiving some trivial news. You may have to pay a fee for using traffic.
It is quite difficult to disable Velcom advertising sent by SMS to your phone. This cannot be sorted out in the subscriber’s Personal Account, but it’s still worth logging in to activate the “Disable newsletter” and “Disable SMS newsletters” options.
Such actions will help disable some of the intrusive advertising on Velcom, but not the “What’s New” SMS newsletter. There is also no universal SMS or USSD request to block or completely disable unnecessary messages sent via SMS.
How to disable "What's New":
- Enter the Welkom sim menu.
- Click “What’s new” -> “Settings” -> “Service activated” -> “Disable” -> “OK”.
Judging by the reviews of Velcom subscribers, not everyone can disable SMS messaging in this way: on some mobile phones the operator menu does not have the items described above.
The only option that will definitely work is to call the call center (numbers 410,411) and ask to unsubscribe from the mailing list and turn off the “What’s New” SMS newsletter.
Additionally
The service has few features, but there are still some nuances:
- it is provided throughout Russia, but is available for adding only in the Central and Moscow coverage areas;
- Due to the option, the answering machine is sometimes unavailable. If you want to leave a voice message, delete the tone replacement;
- Music tracks are not available when the called number is on call hold when the other party is unavailable or busy;
- if GOOD'OK is set on the called subscriber's number, the user "MF" will hear tracks from the last service;
- The proposal is incompatible with MTS Radio and all types of Content Ban.
Disabling Melofon
Finding information about the function called “Melofon” provided by the Velcom operator is quite difficult. Description of tariffs, the procedure for connecting and disabling options, a full description of the service - none of these sections includes information that Melofon is activated by default on the numbers of all people who have recently become Velcom clients.
Only by making an effort, you can find the “Rules” section on the official website of the Velcom company, and then find the necessary one in the extensive list of documents – “Procedure for the operation of the Melofon service.”
It says here that it is connected by default immediately after concluding an agreement on the provision of communication services at Velcom tariffs (all except Internet tariffs).
Why do you need Melofon: when other people call the subscriber to whose number it is connected, instead of beeps they hear music. Naturally, not everyone needs this option, but it is connected everywhere.
Important! Using the option will cost the client 7,900 Belarusian rubles per month (only the first thirty days are free). If we recall the budget tariff offers of the Velcom operator, for example, “On the Line” with a subscription fee of 13,900 rubles, then we get an almost fifty percent increase in this amount. Therefore, it must be disabled.
It is not possible to remove “Melofon” online using ISSA - the list of connected services displayed in your Personal Account does not include it.
You must disconnect in one of three ways:
- register on a separate website of the service and switch it off there;
- send the message “rbtoff” to 424;
- send USSD command *425*5*1#.
What it is
But first, let’s find out what our current needs are? Knowing this, you can understand whether you need them or not. Maybe you can do without them completely? Velcom's USSD requests, like those of any cellular operator, are nothing more than a means of subscriber self-service.
With their help, you can control your phone balance, check and change the tariff plan on your SIM card, perform various functions, as well as disable and activate certain services and options. The main advantage of such combinations is that they are free and can be activated at any time of the day or night. The main thing is to know what exactly you need.
Disabling paid services and subscriptions by calling the operator
You can contact the MTS operator by number 0890
. When you are connected to support, you have the right to demand that ALL paid subscriptions on your MTS phone be disabled. If your money started disappearing and you didn’t connect anything, or you downloaded a malicious program onto your phone and your money started disappearing, please immediately disable your paid subscriptions.
It’s worth trying to request a refund for the entire subscription period if the amount is more than impressive. You can also find out the full amount charged for subscriptions from your operator.
Connection
You can order the Musicfun service only on partner websites. The list of portals includes https://ooo.fm, https://chanson.fm, https://moscov.fm/ and https://radlo.fm/. To connect, the user must:
- go to one of the specified sites from a phone with an MTS SIM;
- launch your favorite content;
- Click on the “Music Fan” button located next to it.
If you did everything correctly, the number will be detected automatically. Then all you have to do is agree with the offer and confirm your intentions. A report with the results of the operation will come in the form of SMS.
How to disable the Musicfun service on MTS
It is useful to know how to disable Musicfun on MTS for reasons of economy. The service is most often activated accidentally by inexperienced users, and people are forced to pay a daily subscription fee for unnecessary functions. We'll tell you how much money is actually written off for music instead of beeps and how to save yourself from these expenses.
How to subscribe?
In order to use entertainment services on the Fanbox voice portal, you need to dial the short number 2222, follow the instructions in the voice menu, select the service you like and activate a subscription to it. The service is activated in each thematic section of the portal by pressing the “1” key.
It is also possible to activate the service in the following additional ways, following the instructions in the voice menu:
- when dialing a number starting with the following characters *0..., *1..., *2..., *3..., *4..., *5..., *6..., *7..., *8..., *9..., excluding codes type *100, *0ХХХ, *1XXX, *2ХХХ, *3ХХХ, *4ХХХ, *5ХХХ, *6ХХХ, *7ХХХ, *8ХХХ, *9ХХХ where X are numbers from 0 to 9;
- when dialing a 5-digit IVR number in the range 10000-99999.