The roaming service is a convenient way to stay in touch while traveling without changing your phone number. Iota roaming is the most profitable among offers from major mobile operators. People who often travel abroad and travel around Russia should buy a Yota SIM card to save on cellular communications and mobile Internet outside their home region. Let's consider the cost of Yota roaming in Russia and abroad, the conditions for connecting and deactivating roaming, and ways to save money while traveling.
Internet roaming from Yota in Russia and abroad
A unique offer from the Yota operator - roaming in Russia is not valid for 30 days. All this time you can talk and use the Internet at your home rate while roaming in Russia. No matter what region of the country you are in, the volume of paid minutes and gigabytes is saved for your SIM card.
Connected additional services, for example, unlimited SMS or unlimited access to social networks, are also preserved. Outgoing calls within Russia are counted within the paid package; calls to other Yota numbers are always free.
Access to the Internet depends on the quality of coverage; the modern 4G standard will change to 3G and even 2G when moving away from large cities. A map of Yota mobile communications and Internet coverage can be viewed on the provider’s official website.
While traveling around Russia, Yota subscribers can:
- Access the Internet at the maximum speed available for a specific area.
- Change the terms of your tariff, connect additional services while traveling.
- The ability to leave a request for technical support in any region of the country and quickly get answers to your questions
If you do not return to your home region after 30 days, your rate will be increased automatically. According to a recently adopted law, mobile operators in Russia are prohibited from charging additional fees for roaming within the country.
But Iota phone roaming works differently. This cellular operator sets different prices for each region of the country. Increasing the price of calls and the Internet on a long trip is a protection against the purchase of cheap tariffs by residents of a region with more expensive communications.
Yota roaming in Russia turns on and off automatically. By registering your card in mobile networks, the system determines which region you are currently in. There is no need to connect or disconnect roaming services; this happens automatically during your travel.
The main communication benefits that customers of the Yota operator receive:
- Possibility of access to high-speed Internet.
- Free incoming calls;
- Quite ordinary characteristics of the tariffs provided;
- There is a complete absence of pitfalls associated with hidden options; they can be enabled without the user’s knowledge.
- An excellent opportunity to change the tariff and connect various services at a convenient time.
- There is no need to wait until the end of the month to change the tariff and many other important advantages.
Examples of tariffs and prices for Iota roaming abroad
One of the popular travel destinations is European countries. The average cost per minute of an outgoing call from Europe to Russia for Yota subscribers is only 19 rubles. The cost of receiving an incoming call is 9 rubles per minute.
A call from one foreign country to another costs from 120 rubles per minute of conversation, this is the most expensive service in international roaming. Sending an MMS message in most countries costs 20 rubles, sending an SMS costs 9-19 rubles, regardless of the recipient’s country.
Great Britain
Let's take the UK as an example. Here, one minute of an outgoing call to Russia will cost 19 rubles, receiving an incoming call from Russia - 9 rubles per minute, a call to another European country - 120 rubles, mobile Internet - 20 rubles for 20 MB. After every 20 MB you receive the next 20 MB as a gift. Thus, the real price of accessing the Internet is 20 rubles for 40 MB of traffic.
Türkiye
A popular country for summer holidays is Türkiye. Here the cost of incoming and outgoing calls will also be 9 and 19 rubles, respectively. Calling from Turkey to another country, not Russia, costs 129 rubles per minute of conversation. The tariff for mobile Internet is the same as in Britain - 20 rubles for 20 MB, the next 20 MB as a gift.
China and USA
Roaming tariffs are the same in two large countries that are world leaders. These are the USA and China. Here, the cost of one minute of negotiations with Russia will be 79 rubles, regardless of whether you are making an incoming or outgoing call.
Travelers in the USA and China are better off buying 30 minutes of incoming calls for 39 rubles from Yota to save money. The standard tariff for mobile Internet is 20 rubles for 40 MB. A call to another country, not to Russia, will cost 129 rubles per minute of conversation.
Abkhazia and Kazakhstan
Two neighboring countries with the same prices for Yota roaming. Here, for one minute of telephone conversations with Russia, incoming or outgoing, as well as for local calls, 33 rubles will be debited from the subscriber’s account. A call to a country other than Russia is charged at a rate of 129 rubles per minute. In Kazakhstan and Abkhazia, there are high Internet tariffs; for 10 MB you will have to pay 790 rubles.
Australia
The farthest country from us with the most expensive calls. The price of an incoming, outgoing or local call is 119 rubles. Compared to this figure, the cost of a call to any country except Russia no longer seems high - 129 rubles per minute. The price of mobile Internet in Australia is standard for Europe: 40 MB for 20 rubles.
Ways to save with Yota abroad on the Internet and calls
Yota roaming abroad is the cheapest compared to offers from other mobile operators. So you can save money by simply buying an Iota SIM card. Messengers (Whatsapp and Viber), as well as social networks, will help you reduce your mobile communications costs. The cost of unlimited use of one service ranges from 10 to 60 rubles per month.
While in Russia, you can pay for unlimited access to instant messengers and social networks, and it will be valid even abroad. Instead of telephone conversations, use the mobile Internet to avoid paying for incoming and outgoing messages. Especially if you want to call from one foreign country to another, then online correspondence will save you hundreds of rubles.
Yota subscribers have the opportunity to receive 30 minutes of incoming calls for only 39 rubles. This option will be convenient for travelers who often receive calls from home or work. The Yota mobile application for smartphones and tablets will help you control your costs for cellular communications and the Internet. The mobile application is not suitable for a computer; instead, you should use your personal account on the provider’s website.
Mobile Internet will be automatically suspended if you have used 40 Mbit of traffic. During each stop, you will be able to make a choice whether to continue using the mobile Internet or whether it is time to disconnect. The main problem for travelers is the uncontrollable costs of paying for traffic, which will bypass Yota subscribers. Even if some smartphone application decides to update at the wrong time, it will not be able to do so completely without your confirmation.
Command to connect
If there is no money in your account, then you do not have to look for a terminal or log into your personal account to top up your account and check payments.
To communicate with another subscriber, you can send him a request using the following command:
After performing a simple manipulation, a message will be sent to your friend’s number asking you to call him.
More detailed information about this service can be obtained from the operator working in the support service.
How to disable roaming on Yota
Yota international roaming is disabled automatically immediately after the SIM card is returned to Russia. If the shutdown does not occur for some reason, the subscriber should contact Yota technical support. The easiest way to do this is to write to a consultant via online chat in the mobile application.
Other ways to contact Yota technical support:
- Call 8-800-550-49-55 . Within Russia the call will be free. To talk to a live consultant, listen to the voice menu and wait your turn to connect with an operator. The wait can range from 5 minutes to 45 minutes, depending on how busy the hotline is.
- Send SMS to 0999 . This short number is an analogue of an online chat with a consultant for those cases when the subscriber’s mobile Internet does not work. Messages are answered by real people, not bot programs, so there is no need to write text according to a template. Briefly and clearly state the essence of the problem that has arisen.
- Write an email to [email protected] . The letter format is convenient because you can describe the problem in detail and attach screenshots to the text illustrating the technical failure. The waiting period for a response from technical support ranges from one day to several hours.
To disable roaming, you do not have to go to the Yota communication salon. Choose any of the methods to contact technical support remotely. You can solve this problem online, saving your time.
Temporary SIM card blocking
If you do not want your SIM card to be included in roaming abroad, you can temporarily block the SIM card while traveling. Any of the methods given above will do this. When contacting Yota technical support, do not forget to clarify that you are blocking the SIM card temporarily and plan to restore it after returning to Russia. If due to an accident the number is blocked forever, as if the card is lost, it will no longer be possible to restore it.
When you return back to Russia, you can unlock the SIM card and restore all services connected to it. To do this, it is not necessary to contact a consultant in the same way that you used to block the SIM card. Regardless of the chosen method of communication with support, any consultant will be able to solve any problem.
How much does a call from Tele2 to Yota cost?
We are trying to call but an obsessive thought haunts us - how much does it cost to call from Tele2 to Yota?
It is worth especially noting here that both operators began to actively promote tariffs with included packages of minutes for calls to numbers of other mobile providers. What you need to take into account is that the call must be made within the Russia region.
Are you preparing to go abroad with Yota? Be sure to read this post-story.
If you are a regular user of the Yota operator
and are going abroad, the story below will help you get rid of the headaches associated with the SIM card, network problems, lack of roaming.
Evgeniy shares his grief experience
(author's text preserved in original):
Editorial, hello!
I have been a reader of the resource almost since its inception and offer my story about how I had to fly from Minsk to Moscow to change my Yota SIM card.
You have already published articles about the work of this operator, I want to warn users against unnecessary expenses and nerves, because... the operator does not inform about possible problems in roaming.
Here's what happened:
On vacation, my wife and I decided to go by car from Moscow to Europe. On March 6, 2021, we entered Belarus, my wife’s operator immediately found a connection, but my Yota was in no hurry. No steps to set up the connection helped. Having reached the hotel in Minsk and connected to wi-fi, I contacted a Yota consultant. He said that apparently **my SIM card is “old model**” and does not meet all the updates made by Yota.
The solution is to replace it with a “new model” SIM card. As you understand, this is not so easy to do abroad: Yota sales points are only in Russia. The consultant suggested forwarding calls to my wife’s number, and this would have saved the situation if my number had not been linked to the company’s bank account.
SMS forwarding cannot be configured, and without messages I would not receive codes to confirm banking transactions. By the way, Yota cannot forward calls on a weekend, and there were 2 more holiday weekends that would be without communication.
The Yota sales point closest to Minsk in Smolensk was closed on the weekend of March 7–8. To the next one - in Bryansk - the journey was almost the same as to Moscow. There was nothing left - I had to take a plane ticket and fly back to Moscow. In the morning I replaced the SIM card and flew to Minsk, where, fortunately, the connection worked.
It remains a mystery to me why Yota did not inform its customers about the need to replace the SIM card due to the likelihood of lack of roaming abroad. At the same time, the operator is aware of this problem; you can easily find similar cases on the Internet.
Be carefull! If you are going abroad, change your SIM card just in case.
We turned directly to the operator himself and asked to clarify the situation. Yota representatives commented on the situation as follows:
We are aware of the problem of connecting to the roaming partner network for some clients. This is due to the fact that a small number of SIM cards do not have the latest applet installed.
. Yota technical specialists are currently working to resolve this issue.
If such situations arise, we recommend that users contact Yota support through the mobile application or on the website yota.ru. Specialists will be able to update SIM settings remotely. In rare cases, the SIM card may need to be replaced.
You need to prepare for long trips. And the preparation of a smartphone is apparently no exception. Draw conclusions. For our part, we can recommend contacting any nearest service center and replacing the SIM card with a new one. Do not put off this simple manipulation until tomorrow, otherwise you risk facing the same problem as our reader.
We thank Evgeniy for the warning and the press service of the Yota operator for the prompt response.
website Are you preparing to go abroad with Yota? Be sure to read this post story. If you are a regular user of the Yota operator and are going abroad, the story below will help you get rid of the headaches associated with the SIM card, network problems, and lack of roaming. Our reader Evgeniy shares his grief experience (the original text is preserved): Editorial team, hello! I have been a reader of the resource almost since its inception...
When going abroad, every person wants to stay in touch with their family and friends. Whether it’s calls while roaming or access to the network, communication must be of high quality and inexpensive. Mobile operator Yota allows its customers to communicate without borders, wherever they are.
What USSD commands does Yota have?
Any operator, be it MTS or Megafon, creates different USSD commands for its customers that make mobile communications convenient, comfortable and affordable. The Yota operator also has many commands that can be easily connected and disabled if necessary. To activate a command, everyone most often uses combinations of numbers, letters and symbols.
The main USSD commands include the following:
- checking the balance status - *100# ;
- checking the remaining minutes, SMS, etc. — *101#
- checking your own number *103#
- *144*XXXXXXXXXX#
- Blacklist - *903#
These are the commands most often used by the operator’s subscribers.
How to disable and change the old service package?
This option is available to subscribers who connected to a specific tariff plan before January 25 of the current year. They can change their old tariff to a new one. To do this, you need to use the following command: *105*N# (N is the number of minutes for unlimited tariffs).
It should be noted that since the beginning of this year, the company’s tariffs have undergone significant changes and have become even more profitable and economical for the operator’s subscribers. At the moment, Yota provides clients with a unique opportunity to take advantage of profitable package offers, the essence of which is a one-time (once a month) account replenishment to receive traffic, a certain number of messages and minutes.
Types of popular ones and their features
Like other Russian operators, Yota has, which is also called a beacon, “bum,” and so on.
Every person in life may experience an unpleasant situation when they need to make an important call, but there are no funds in their account. Don't despair, because the yota operator took care of its clients and did it for them.
If you don’t know how to connect, you can always contact support by calling a toll-free number from your mobile phone
After connecting with the operator, you can ask him any question related to it. For example, the operator will tell you what new tariff plans are available for your number, listen to your personal opinion about the company’s services, and also tell you how to change the tariff and how to activate roaming.
Is it possible to find out the tariff via a modem or router?
To do this, you need to insert a SIM card into the modem and use your personal account. There is a speed regulator that displays the data necessary for the Iota client. In addition, you can find out or change the tariff with the help of technical support by calling
The company's official website has a task area and a control panel where you can find all the necessary information. To do this, go to the “Support” section, select the type of your device (for example, smartphone) and contact the online chat. A window will open in front of you that needs to be filled out (personal account and your name, location, that is, city of residence and the question to which you want to receive an answer). After performing these simple manipulations, you must wait until the operator is free and can talk to you.
Payment for car parking
offers residents of Moscow such a useful service as payment for parking.
It's called "Moscow Parking". In order to take advantage of this useful option, you need to send a message from your phone to the number “7757**parking number*car number*number of hours from 1 to 24.”
It looks like this: 1207*С001СС177*2
. In order to extend the time a car stays in the parking lot, you need to use the following command: send a text (if you need to extend it for 4 hours, then X4) to number 7757. If you need to leave and leave the parking lot early, then send a text with the letter to the same number "WITH".
Important: this service is currently available only to residents of the capital.
