On December 11, 2021, the mobile operator MTS launched “Netariff” - one of the most interesting tariff solutions on the Russian market in recent times. “Netariff” is a flexible constructor where each subscriber can fine-tune the volume and list of communication services on his number. You will no longer have to overpay for options and features that a person does not use. Let's figure out how the “Netariff” works, what is included in it, how profitable this offer is, and also how it can be connected or disabled.
How does Netariff work?
“Netariff” from MTS is very similar to the standard constructor of the popular “virtual” Yota. Its operating principle is as follows:
- The subscriber configures the amount of minutes and gigabytes using a special slider.
- The cost of the tariff varies depending on the selected values.
- After selecting the optimal option, the subscriber clicks on the “Connect” button, and the selected tariff plan is connected to the number.
An important feature of the MTS offer is an expanded number of additional options. While Yota only offers unlimited coverage for various services, MTS allows you to add paid subscriptions, spam blocking and other services to your tariff.
Tariff comparison
We invite you to compare the tariffs of the largest Russian mobile operators:
| minutes | Internet | Text messages | Cost of calls when limits are exceeded | Subscription fee | |
| MTS Netariff | 580 | 20 GB | 50 SMS | From 1.75 rub./min. | 539 rub. |
| Beeline SuperCity | 500 | 25 GB | 300 SMS | From 3 rub./min. | 550 rub. |
| Megafon Without Overpayments Internet | 400 | 20 GB | No free text messages | From 3 rub./min. | 500 rub. |
| Tele2 Everywhere online | 500 | 40 GB | No free text messages | Information is absent | 450 rub. |
| Tinkoff Mobile | 600 | 8 GB | No free text messages | Information is absent | 528 rub. |
The tariff plan for Tinkoff Mobile was created using a tariff calculator. With it, you can increase or decrease packages of free minutes and gigabytes, add free text messages, messages on social networks and instant messengers.
Possible content and cost
The content of the tariff plan depends on the subscriber himself. Here are the service packages that can be activated within the “Netariff”:
- Mobile traffic: from 5 GB to 30 GB per month with settings up to gigabyte. You can also connect to completely unlimited Internet. Traffic is valid both in the home region and when traveling around the country.
- Minutes: from 200 to 2,000 minutes to all Russian phones, accurate to the minute. The package of minutes is also valid when traveling around Russia.
- SMS messages: 50 or 200 pieces to choose from. There are no customization options.
The cost of the tariff plan depends both on the selected set of services and on the region. For example, in Moscow, 10 GB of Internet, 440 minutes and 50 SMS will cost 510 rubles. per month, and in St. Petersburg the same set will cost 381 rubles. per month.
When you first connect, payment is debited in installments: 50% of the subscription fee is charged at the start, and another 50% after 15 days of use. If there is not enough money, access to communication services will be suspended until the account is replenished. In addition to standard service packages, you can add a lot of interesting additional options to the “Netariff”.
Roaming services in Russia
According to the new rules, subscribers receive the following conditions for mobile communications when traveling around the country:
- Calls within your region of residence are subject to home network conditions.
- Long-distance calls – 5.5 rub/min. (for tariffs with per-minute billing or after the package is exhausted).
- SMS within the home network – 1.95 rubles, within Russia – 2.95 rubles. (if there is no package).
On some tariffs, long-distance is included in the package - for all numbers or only for calls to MTS subscribers in Russia. Choose the most suitable travel option if you change your location frequently. For rare trips, special options are suitable - they can be connected and disconnected as many times as you like.
Unlimited options
If you don’t want to overpay for completely unlimited Internet, you can add unlimited traffic to your tariff only for certain groups of applications. In total, 3 unlimited options are offered within the “Netariff”:
- Social networks: VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter do not consume the Internet package. In almost all regions, the option costs 60 rubles. per month.
- Communication: messengers WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Discord, Skype and ICQ can be used unlimitedly. In Moscow, this service is completely free, but in many other regions it costs 30 rubles. per month.
- Entertainment: no gigabytes are wasted when using video hosting sites YouTube, Twitch and TikTok. The cost of the service is 100 rubles. in 30 days.
All unlimited options work only in official applications or browser versions of websites. If a VPN is used on the device, the traffic will start to be consumed again. Unlimited applies to text messages, audio and video calls, viewing images and videos in the service itself. Transitions to other services are charged according to the standard “Netariff” conditions. You can connect one or several unlimited options at the same time.
Paid subscriptions
The tariff plan can include additional subscriptions to MTS services or operator partners. There are a total of five options to choose from:
- “Super” subscription to the MTS TV service. Offers over 100 TV channels, thousands of films and TV series for 199 rubles. per month.
- “Super+” subscription to the MTS TV service. An improved version of the previous subscription. It already includes 150 TV channels, as well as many movies, cartoons and television series for 299 rubles. per month.
- Subscription to MTS Music. This is the operator's music service, competing with Yandex.Music, Spotify and Apple Music. In the application, subscribers will find millions of tracks of various genres, as well as the possibility of built-in music recognition, like in Shazam. Cost - 169 rubles. per month.
- Subscription to online cinema IVI. It allows you to watch a huge number of films, TV series and cartoons in the highest quality, without advertising and without speed limits. Subscription costs 349 rubles. per month and is valid on five devices at once - you can watch movies with the whole family without interfering with each other.
- “Books” subscription to the MTS Library service. This option includes over 270,000 books of different genres. You can read not only fiction, but also useful literature - for example, popular science books or business manuals. Subscription costs 349 rubles. per month.
Paid subscriptions can be combined with each other in any combination. The only limitation is that it is impossible to purchase “Super” and “Super+” for MTS TV at the same time, because these options are mutually exclusive.
When purchasing a subscription, the subscriber also receives completely unlimited traffic in the selected service when using mobile Internet from MTS.
Who is suitable for NETARIFF from MTS?
NETARIF is a flexible offer that allows you to meet the needs of almost every cellular subscriber. This is the best option for those who do not want to use unnecessary services that are often imposed as part of other tariff plans.
At the same time, NETARIF is hardly worth considering for people who do not use the Internet and rarely make calls. Even with flexible settings, the subscription does not allow you to completely disable the package of minutes, gigabytes and SMS. Thus, the client will still pay a subscription fee.
Also, the tariff is not suitable for those who often communicate with friends and relatives from abroad, since the cost of foreign calls on NETARIFF is the same as on other tariff plans. To save money, you will need to select the appropriate tariff plan or activate an additional option.
In all other cases, NETARIFF is definitely worth recommending for connection. Today this is one of the most profitable offers from MTS, which is at least worth a try.
Services
In addition to unlimited and subscriptions, MTS offers to add several other additional options to the tariff:
- “Unlimited calls to MTS Russia
. The service makes it possible to make free calls to other subscribers of the operator throughout the country after the package of minutes within the tariff ends. Cost - 100 rubles. per month. - “Blocking spam calls.”
The option automatically blocks all calls from suspicious numbers listed in the MTS database as spam and scammers. Cost - 30 rubles. per month.
A city number can also be considered an additional service of the designer. In Moscow and the Moscow region, its use will cost 304.8 rubles. per month.
Standard settings
If a subscriber purchases a new SIM card with a pre-installed “Netariff”, the following set of options awaits him inside:
- 10 GB Internet;
- 440 minutes to any numbers throughout the country;
- 50 SMS messages.
Exactly the same parameters are specified in the default constructor. The cost of this option in Moscow and the Moscow region is 510 rubles. per month. If a subscriber switches to this tariff plan from an old SIM card, but does not set up the conditions himself, he will receive the following set of packages:
- 20 GB Internet traffic;
- 460 minutes to any Russian numbers;
- 50 SMS messages throughout the country.
This option in Moscow and the Moscow region will cost a little more - 529 rubles. per month. Additional unlimited options, subscriptions and other services are not included in the standard “Netariff” packages.
After the packages are exhausted
When service packages within the “Netariff” come to an end, the following communication prices will be used:
- Calls to mobile numbers of any operators, as well as to landlines within the country - 1.75 rubles. in a minute;
- SMS messages to all subscribers in Russia - 3.5 rubles. a piece;
- SMS to any foreign numbers - 8.5 rubles. a piece;
- MMS to numbers of Russian operators - 10.3 rubles. a piece.
Internet traffic is not paid per megabyte. When the Internet package runs out, an additional 1 GB is connected for 160 rubles. If this option is disabled, the Internet speed is reduced to 64 Kbps.
Communication on trips is now like home
Roaming appeared almost as soon as mobile networks were built. Operator companies, in order to recoup costs, created an additional income stream in the form of national roaming, which implied an increased cost for using mobile communications. For a long time, the authorities turned a blind eye to this and allowed them to make money from the population in this way.
Essentially, the presented service transfers to the network of another operator company with which MTS cooperates. If a company does not have its own network in a specific area, then it sends a request for the provision of services from a cooperating company, which entails unnecessary costs for the operator.
But it is worth considering that MTS has its own infrastructure in all regions of Russia. That is, when moving across areas, you simply move between local networks of one company. The operator does not tolerate spending and does not request services from partners. For this reason, it can be stated that national roaming is a fictitious option.
In 2021, the FAS put forward demands regarding the complete abolition of this service. Within the framework of the law, each operator must refuse to use roaming. The transition period lasts until July 2021, during which the terms of tariffs must change and all offers for connection must be adjusted.
Limitations and Disadvantages
“Netariff” has several important limitations and disadvantages that can greatly affect the profitability and ease of use of this tariff:
- Unlimited Internet is fully operational only in your home region. When traveling around the country, you can use no more than 30 GB, after which the connection speed will be reduced to 64 Kbps.
- As part of the Netariff, MTS does not offer unlimited calls with its other subscribers. Even if you activate a paid option, calls to MTS phones will consume a package of minutes, which is in many ways inconvenient.
- You can distribute the Internet via Wi-Fi, but not more than 10 GB, regardless of the package size. Distribution of traffic over the limit is paid, and you will have to pay 80 rubles for it. per day;
- You can use torrents and file hosting services, but not for free. You can download no more than 5 GB per day, and you will have to pay 75 rubles for it. The offer, to put it mildly, is not the most profitable.
- Packages cannot be transferred to the next billing period. Anything not spent within a month will be burned. However, thanks to the flexible constructor, such situations can be avoided - just reduce the package next month so as not to pay for excess.
Special conditions also apply to change the volume of packages. All changes take effect at the beginning of the new billing period, so it is not possible to refund money for excess packages in the current month.
Net-tariff or tariff, which is better?
As already stated above, unlimited Internet on Netariff will cost 603 rubles . And unlimited on Tariffishche is possible only with an additional payment of 100 rubles, and will amount to 780 rubles !
Below is a more detailed comparison of tariffs.
Attention! There is currently a promotion on Tariffische for new clients; you get unlimited Internet access for free. This condition does not apply to clients who have already connected previously; they are provided with 50 GB of Internet! Unlimited can be purchased for an additional 100 rubles.
If you are connecting to MTS for the first time, then the Tariff will be more profitable!
| Non-tariff | Tariff | |
| Internet | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| minutes | 223 | 700 |
| Price | 603 rub/month | 680 rub/month + 100 rub/month for unlimited internet |
| Option 2, with more minutes | ||
| Internet | 30 GB | 50 GB |
| minutes | 700 | 700 |
| Price | 605 rub/month | 680 rub/month |
How to download from torrent trackers?
The cost of using torrent trackers is 75 rubles daily. For this amount, 5 gigabytes of traffic are available; their consumption leads to the shutdown of file-sharing networks. The main danger is automatic debiting of funds when connecting to torrents. On many computers, the tracker is turned on automatically; if the smartphone is used as a modem, you can accidentally lose a considerable amount. Not a very humane decision on the part of the operator; it was quite possible to set a limit of several hundred kilobytes so that the user would have time to turn off the torrent client before the payment was debited.
If we talk about Internet distribution, it is free if you use packages. For example, 30 gigabytes can be distributed even in a day without additional payment. If you use a scheme with unlimited Internet, then the maximum per day is 10 gigabytes, excess requires an 80-ruble surcharge. As in the situation with torrents, this amount is written off immediately as soon as the limit is exceeded.
How to switch to “Netariff”
The instructions for switching to a new MTS offer are no different from connecting to any other tariff plan.
Here's how to activate the “Netariff” tariff on an old SIM card:
- Open the official offer page at . Configure all parameters in the designer, and then click on the “Connect” button. Log in if you have not done so previously and confirm the selected set of packages and services.
- Log into your personal account on the operator’s official website at mts.ru. Go to the “Tariffs” tab, click on the “Change tariff” button and find the one you need in the list. Customize it to your requirements and connect.
- Open the “My MTS” mobile application and go to the “Tariffs” menu. Select “Non-tariff” from the proposed options, change the scope of services to suit your needs and add additional options if needed. Click on the “Connect” button and confirm your actions.
You can also purchase a new SIM card with the desired tariff plan or switch to MTS with your number if you are currently using the services of another cellular operator. To perform such actions, you will need to visit the nearest MTS communication store with your passport. To disable the “Net Tariff”, switch to any other tariff plan using the same instructions.
