Megafon tariff “Turn on! Write" refers to the line of the same name, which is chosen by active users. Fans of text messaging online will not ignore this promotion. Regarding the price criterion, the option is available, but is limited to only the home region.
Tariff “Turn on! Write”, although it has a limited set of options, is offered at an affordable subscription fee. In the “Turn on” line, individual offers have been selected so as not to overpay for unused services to Megafon. Thanks to this division, the quality of service improves and the conditions attract more users of Megafon SIM cards.
Considering that subscribers have different desires, different packages are offered to satisfy the basic needs of users . Tariff “Turn on! Write”, although it has a limited set of options, is offered at an affordable subscription fee. If a network client does without voice calls or rarely uses them, he can choose a tariff that encourages the use of messages - “Write”.
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Description of the tariff “Turn on! Write" from Megafon
This tariff plan is one of the most economical in the “Turn on” line, since its average cost in the country is set at 400 rubles. After connecting to the tariff plan, the client will receive free calls within the network and a package of minutes and traffic provided for by the conditions.
A distinctive feature of this tariff is that the subscription fee when switching or connecting is debited immediately. In the future, write-offs will be made on the day of transition or connection “Turn on! Write."
If the balance on your mobile account is insufficient, the debit will not occur, and the tariff will be blocked until the balance is replenished.
The tariff includes:
| 3 GB | Internet traffic to any resources. Valid throughout Russia. |
| Free | calls to Megafon numbers in the local region. |
| 300 minutes | to numbers of any operators in the local region. |
| 300 sms | to numbers of any operators in the local region. |
| Free traffic | on the Megafon TV . |
| Unlimited traffic to instant messengers | Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, TamTam, eMotion, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat |
The service area covered by the provided package is throughout Russia.
If the limit of minutes and Internet, as well as SMS messages, is exceeded, then the prices will be as follows:
| For free | outgoing calls to Megafon home region |
| 50 rubles | package of 30 minutes |
| 1.8 rubles | SMS messages above the package to local region numbers |
| 3 rubles | SMS messages above the package to Russian numbers |
Ways to switch to a tariff
You do not need to pay for the transition to the tariff plan. The user will be charged a subscription fee of 400 rubles. Make the transition to “Turn on! Write” in several ways.
Personal Area
You can change it through your personal account interface. Login is carried out using a login (mobile number) and password, which you need to obtain by dialing the combination *105*00#.
USSD request
Using the device keyboard, dial the combination *789*2#, press the Call button. Within a few minutes the tariff plan will change.
SMS message
You can send an SMS to the special number 05007892, where you indicate the text YES.
Voice menu
Call the service number 05007892 and use voice prompts to change the tariff.
When traveling around Russia (roaming)
The cost of services for trips around Russia is as follows.
For example. You have the Turn On tariff! Write, you came from Moscow to Voronezh. Your tariff now moves with you. Calls to Voronezh numbers are now considered local. A call to Moscow is now considered long-distance. All incoming calls from local numbers (from Voronezh numbers) are free. Incoming calls from other regions (even Moscow) are free.
| Incoming calls in the Home region | for free |
| Incoming calls from local numbers (when traveling within Russia) | for free |
| Incoming calls from other regions of Russia (while traveling around Russia) | for free |
| Long-distance calls to Megafon Russia numbers | 5 rub/min |
| Long-distance calls to numbers in other Russia | 12 rub/min |
Cost of the tariff “Turn on! Write"
Tariff prices are set depending on the region of residence. Below is a table indicating monthly subscription fees in several cities of Russia
| City | Terms of service |
| Samara | The monthly fee is 250 rubles: 250 SMS messages, 250 minutes for calls to all SIM cards and 3 GB of Internet are provided |
| Bryansk | The client pays 350 rubles as a monthly debit: he is offered 500 minutes for calls, 100 SMS messages and 6 GB of traffic |
| Volgograd | For 300 rubles, the user receives: 300 minutes for calls, 300 SMS and 5 GB traffic |
| Moscow | In Moscow, a subscriber pays 400 rubles per month and receives 300 minutes for making calls to SIM cards of other operators, 300 messages and 4 GB Internet |
| Krasnodar | In this region, the cost of the tariff is set at 250 rubles. The client is offered 300 minutes for calls to SIM cards of any operators, 100 messages and 3 GB for Internet access |
| Omsk | The monthly payment for the tariff is 250 rubles: the subscriber is offered a package of 400 minutes, 400 SMS and 5 GB of traffic. |
Okay, we've sorted out the options. Where are the cons hidden?
As usual, all the pitfalls are not talked about out loud. You will find them only in the full tariff conditions, in small print. Moreover, there are about twenty footnotes - really a page of clarifying points. Here are the main problems:
Overpriced SMS
Let's start small.
It is clear that in the era of instant messengers, SMS is a pathetic rudiment. But three rubles for 70 Russian letters is really too much. MMS is generally worth its weight in gold: the operator wants 7 rubles for one message.
There is a special tariff “Write”, there will be 300 SMS and there will be practically no Internet. Unlimited messages within the package are available in a premium tariff for 3,000 rubles per month. The rest can purchase the same unlimited SMS for 50 rubles.
Apple Music is only available in one plan
But here is a real miscalculation. Unlimited Apple Music is only available in the “Listen” plan.
There is no free traffic in the Apple service even in the most expensive tariff. Yes, there is an additional Music package, but there is no Apple Music there either. Such limited choice creates certain inconveniences.
You will be almost completely turned off at zero
This is not exclusive to MegaFon, but a long-standing problem of the Big Three operators.
If you manage to go into the red, be prepared to be disconnected from all packages. It doesn’t matter whether you have free minutes or traffic within the tariff. The situation is absurd, the account cannot be topped up through the client bank, because there will be no Internet either.
Here you can either remember the SMS commands to top up your mobile phone or connect the Promised payment. True, you will have to pay a small commission for it.
Another option is to activate Autopayment at your bank. But not everyone likes to allow someone to automatically deduct money from themselves.
They impose paid services
The best part: the new SIM card comes out of the box with several seemingly “free” services, which in fact quickly eat up your balance. For example:
Whoever called + is connected automatically and becomes paid after three months of use. They will shoot 1.2 per day. I saw this service immediately and, of course, forgot about it after a couple of months.
Internet and incoming calls in Crimea - the service looks free, but in reality they will charge you money the first time you call/go online from the territory of Crimea. 99 rubles per day for 60 MB of traffic and 30 rubles per day for calls.
Internet auto-renewal is another shareware service. At the end of the traffic included in the package, you will be given 200 megabytes for 30 rubles. They can add several times in a row.
It’s good that all these services can be disabled through your personal account.
“Call at your expense” is now forced
In recent months, I have heard several times from my interlocutor “by the way, you’ve run out of money on your phone.”
It turns out that if my balance is insufficient to make a call, the “Call at a friend’s expense” mode is activated. In this case, you do not need to dial special commands, you just call as usual, and at the other end, after the beeps, they hear “the call is at your expense, press 1 to continue.”
It’s probably cool if you call only relatives or close people. But making an important work call at your interlocutor’s expense is bad manners.
This disservice is for everyone. It is doubly unpleasant that it is not reflected in the list of services in your personal account. It can only be turned off with the command otkaz to number 5084 .
The Internet is not so unlimited
We already know that if the balance is negative, the vaunted “unlimited” Internet will be turned off. Also, it will not surprise anyone that the “unlimited” ends when a certain number of downloaded gigabytes is reached.
But even bonus services that seem to have complete unlimited limits will refuse to work when the package runs out. In the tariff conditions there is a wonderful clarification: “If the Internet for any services has run out, then the use of Internet packages for video, music, and social networks is not guaranteed.”
And calls too
Remember what system everyone is used to? Calls within the network are free, calls to numbers of other operators are a certain number of minutes per month.
So, let’s take off our rose-colored glasses, this hasn’t happened for a long time.
Now minutes are written off from all conversations, no matter with neighbors on MegaFon or with subscribers of other operators. For example, out of 300 minutes you can talk 250 with your wife on MegaFon and 50 with work colleagues. From now on, calls to MegaFon will remain free, but calls to other operators will become paid.
You cannot share the Internet via a modem
In the last couple of years, operators have offered a lot of tasty tariffs with a large amount of free Internet traffic. And in order to somehow sell their tablet plans, they banned the distribution of Internet through mobile SIM cards.
Forget about working with 4G modems and routers. They will simply turn off your Internet. There are special SIM cards for this.
Unused volume of packages is not carried over to the next month
But this method of retaining customers has already been adopted by several operators. But MegaFon does not give up. The remainder here is burned at the end of the month and does not carry over to the next one.
Uncritical, but unpleasant.
How to connect “Turn on! Write"?
For the fact that the subscriber switches or connects to the “Turn on! Write”, the company does not charge funds from the account (connection is free).
From the moment of connection, the monthly fee established for the region where the tariff activation process is carried out will be charged.
Tariff activation methods:
- Dial the short number *789*2# and press the key to call.
- Make a call or send SMS YES to the number 0500789
- Switch to the tariff from the client’s personal account, where you need to select a tariff and confirm activation.
How to connect and disconnect from a tariff plan
You have two options with which you can start using the tariff. In the first case, you have the opportunity to buy a SIM card directly with the current tariff at any point of sale of products.
Agree that not everyone will want to change their phone number in order to use a different tariff, and in principle this is not required. You can easily connect it in less than a minute.
Here are some of the fastest ways to do this:
- Connect on the company website. To do this, you will need to enter your contact phone number, to which the system will send a security code to confirm the transition.
- You can activate the tariff using your Megafon Personal Account.
- By sending a short USSD command to *789*2# you will automatically activate the “Turn On! Write." .
- Another option is to send an SMS message to the operator to the short number 05007892 with a text of any content.
- You can activate the tariff through the voice message service by calling 05007892 . Listen to the voice menu and follow the instructions provided.
Be careful! When you switch from an old tariff to a new one, you do not keep any unused minutes, SMS or Internet traffic. Therefore, do not forget to use it completely, and then make the transition.
disable the “Write” tariff in the same way as any other tariff plan. That is, for example, change to any other if this one does not suit you. You can also simply refuse Megafon services by changing the operator - by switching to MTS or Tele2 with your number, or simply by terminating the contract with Megafon and buying a new SIM card from another company.
How to disable the tariff
If a subscriber wishes to disable the “Turn On! Write”, then he needs to choose the one that is most suitable and take one of the actions provided by Megafon:
- select a new tariff in your personal account and activate it;
- study and select a tariff on the official website, and then launch it with the “ Go to tariff ” button;
- dial the short command *105*3#, and then the call key.
Find out the remaining minutes, SMS and traffic on the “Turn on! Write"
Customers want to stay in touch and monitor traffic balances, so you need to know the ways through which you can get information on this issue. You can check your balances using the following methods:
- dial command on a mobile device *558# and call key;
- by setting up a widget on a mobile device so that the amount of balances is visible on the screen;
- in your personal account, when visiting the “Balances for service packages” tab.
Tariff Notes
Before connecting “Turn on! Write" you need to know the notes to the tariff. These include:
- The initial payment is compensation for the costs of connecting the SIM card to the tariff. It is provided to the client to pay for communication services and cannot be returned. The cost is determined depending on the tariff and where the SIM card is connected.
- After connecting or switching to a tariff, the subscription fee is charged in full. If there are not enough funds in the mobile account, then the debit will occur only after the account is topped up.
- Minutes are accrued according to the tariff in full. If the subscriber connected on the last day of the month, then subsequent debits will occur on this very day.
- The home region is the subject of the Russian Federation where the SIM card was connected.
- Traffic provided in the Russian Federation does not apply in Crimea and Sevastopol.
Tariff “Turn on! Write" is designed for active subscribers who prefer to conduct active text correspondence and at the same time save on mobile communications. Before connecting, you should find out in detail about the “Turn On! Write": its terms and activation rules. This will avoid unnecessary questions when using a SIM card.
Cost of communication services
The subscription fee is charged in full on the same day. The withdrawal date corresponds to the day the tariff was activated. The money is charged in full and immediately after this the subscriber is provided with service packages. If there are not enough funds on the balance to pay, the payment will not be written off and the packages will not be activated. When you top up your SIM card with the required amount, minutes and gigabytes will be provided in full.
Calls
The subscription fee includes 300 free minutes to numbers in your home region. After their end, calls within the operator remain free, and the cost of other connections will be 2 rubles/m. Calls to other cities are not included in the paid volume. Calls to Megafon to any entity will cost 3 rubles per minute, and other connections will cost 12.5 rubles per minute. When traveling within Russia, calls have the following prices:
| Incoming calls, rub./m. | 9,99 |
| Outgoing calls to all phones, rub./min. | 9,99 |
Redirection is carried out at the following rates:
- Inside the operator into the house. region – 1.5 rub./m.;
- To Megafon RF – 3 rubles/min.;
- Other local federal and city numbers – 1.5 rubles/min.;
- Intercity routes – 12.5 rubles/m.
Calls from Abkhazia, Ukraine, the CIS, South Ossetia and Georgia will cost 35 rubles per minute. Conversations with subscribers from Europe will be a little more expensive – 55 rubles/m. Connections with subscribers from Israel or Turkey will have the same cost. Calls to other countries are the most expensive – 75 rubles/m. and satellite communication – 313 rubles/minute.
Before making calls, you need to know your balance. This can be done using the command *100#.
SMS and MMS
The “Write” tariff was created specifically to allow subscribers to write messages for free. This is precisely why 300 SMS are available to them. You can only spend them on numbers registered in your home region. As soon as this quantity runs out, messages to local phones will cost 1.5 rubles per piece. Long-distance SMS to Megafon SIM cards will cost 3 rubles/piece. Messages to clients of other Russian operators have the same cost. To communicate in writing with residents of other countries, you will need to pay 5 rubles/sms. In national roaming, the cost of SMS will change and will be 4.9 rubles/message.
Plan users can also send multimedia messages. Their price for phones of the subject of connection and to other regions of the Russian Federation is 7 rubles. If Mms is sent to South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Ukraine, Georgia or the CIS, then its cost will already be 10 rubles. MMS to other countries will cost 20 rubles per piece.
Internet
The subscription fee includes 3 GB of traffic. Of this number of gigabytes, the Internet is not consumed in such messengers as eMotion, Viber, Facebook, WhatsApp, Tam Tam, Snapchat. All other services and resources waste the main Internet. Once all 3 GB are used up, automatic renewal will begin to activate. As part of this service, the subscriber will receive an additional 200 MB of traffic in addition to the basic package. The cost of such a connection is 30 rubles. Limit of 15 packages until the end of the billing period. Further, access to data transfer can be restored only using the “Extend Internet” option.
This service can give you 1GB or 5GB of extra data at high speed. The cost of a smaller package is 210 rubles. To get 5 gigabytes you will have to pay 450 rubles. These services will operate in the same territory as the main package. In order for auto-renewal or additional functions to be activated, there must be sufficient funds on the account balance. In national roaming in those regions where the Internet package does not apply, the cost of 1 MB will be 9.9 rubles.
Each Internet session is rounded up to 250 KB. In this case, the first access to the network per month will be rounded up to 1024 KB. If the connection turns out to be long, then rounding occurs every hour, also to 250 KB.
