Roaming services allow MTS subscribers to significantly reduce communication and Internet costs outside their home region. In this article we will look at the most popular and profitable services that you can connect to when traveling around Russia.
MTS options for roaming in Russia are very important, since with their help you can significantly save money. The services will be especially useful for active people who need to make a lot of calls, send SMS, and often use the Internet outside their home region. Services from MTS for roaming in Russia will allow you to optimize communication costs.
Customers of a mobile operator have the opportunity to choose the best options, tariff plans and other mobile services that will optimize communication costs and make it cheaper outside their home city, on a business trip or travel.
What's free when traveling around Russia?
The MTS company cares about the comfort of its customers when traveling and helps make the trip more relaxing, thanks to useful services. During the trip you can:
- Incoming calls are free throughout Russia (if you are on the MTS network);
- Mobile Internet - throughout Russia at home;
- Outgoing calls in the region where you are located - regardless of the region where you are located - are at home throughout Russia;
- Make a call to the MTS Contact Center. If the subscriber needs to contact the operator, he can do so at any time. Just dial 0890.
- Find out how to save money. By dialing *111*33# on your phone, you can go to the roaming portal and find out about great offers.
- To plug . To call and send messages to MTS subscribers at their expense, you need to dial the combination *880#.
How to disable roaming
If you do not want to use roaming services while traveling around the country or abroad, you must completely disable this service. Moreover, this can be done by any subscriber, regardless of his tariff plan or package. To do this, call the short number 0890 and after connecting with the operator, ask to deactivate the service. There is another way to disable roaming: dial the following combination: *111*2150 # and call, and you won’t have to worry about unnecessary expenses on incoming messages or calls.
Option for roaming Home package Russia MTS (daily payment)
| There is a home package of SMS and calls throughout Russia | 10.5 rub/day. |
| A package of minutes is spent on calls to other numbers in your home region (long-distance) | your package of minutes |
| Incoming calls | For free |
Smart subscribers who have activated this option spend their package of minutes and SMS on numbers of other operators in their home region. This means that if you come from Moscow to Tver, then calls from Tver to Moscow (home) will now be long-distance, and minutes will be spent from your package. And if you don’t activate the service, then the cost of a long-distance minute for operators other than MTS is 6 rubles/min.
A fee of 10 rubles is debited once a day, provided that the client sends messages or calls.
Connection and deactivation of the service is carried out using the command *111*743#.
The service can be activated only on the tariffs “My Unlimited”, “Tariffishche”, “X”, “Smart Unlimited”, “Smart”, “Smart nonstop”, “Smart mini”, “Smart light”
FAS and Roaming
First you need to understand what roaming is. Intranet roaming
is a communication and data service provided by a mobile operator outside the “home region” in the network of this operator.
Your home region is considered to be the region of Russia in which you purchased and issued your SIM card.
Tariffs for mobile communications and data services outside your home region may differ from tariffs in your home region and, most often, this is the case. The FAS has been trying for many months to “convince” telecom operators that intranet roaming is a relic of the past and needs to be abolished. But mobile operators are reluctant, because if roaming is completely cancelled, they could lose a lot of money. By the way, MTS has changed the conditions of national roaming (Crimea, etc.). You can read about this here. What did MTS do? At least there are no statements about the cancellation of roaming this time, and this indicates two things: MTS did not lie in the title, roaming has not been cancelled. But let's figure out what changes await us.
Option Home package Russia plus MTS (payment per month)
| There is a home package of SMS and calls throughout Russia | 104 rub/month. |
| A package of minutes is spent on calls to any Russian operators (long-distance) | your package of minutes |
| Incoming calls | For free |
If a subscriber wants to save money and receive a package of calls and SMS to the numbers of all Russian operators, which can be used when traveling around Russia, then it is better to connect the “Russia Home Package” + MTS. The service costs 100 rubles per month, the fee is debited at the time of activation. This means that if you come from Moscow to Tver, then calls from Tver to any other city will now be long-distance, and minutes will be spent from your package. And if you don’t activate the service, then the cost of a long-distance minute for operators other than MTS is 6 rubles/min.
The service can be activated only on the tariffs “My Unlimited”, “Tariffishche”, “X”, “Smart Unlimited”, “Smart”, “Smart nonstop”, “Smart mini”, “Smart light”
Service Everywhere at home Russia MTS
| Calls to any numbers in your home region for 3 rubles/min. | Subscription fee 5.2 rubles/day. |
| Incoming calls | For free |
To make calls while traveling around Russia at a favorable price - 3 rubles per minute to any numbers in your home region - you can activate the “Russia is like home everywhere” option. The cost of the service is 5.2 rubles per day.
The service cannot be activated on the following tariffs: “My Unlimited”, “Tariffishche”, “X”, “Smart Unlimited”, “Smart”, “Smart nonstop”, “Smart mini”, “Smart light”, “Smart Top”, “Ultra” ", "Smart +"
You can add an option to your tariff and “cancel” roaming in Russia MTS 2020 through your personal account by sending an SMS with the numbers 528 to number 111 or by dialing the combination *111*528#.
The rest of the SMS package can be checked in your personal account or by dialing *100*1#.
Options for calls and SMS
People for whom messages and calls outside their home region are important should know that services from MTS can significantly reduce costs. Among them there are few options that can provide communication on favorable terms, but they are very effective and are used for different tariff plans. These services include:
- All Russia Smart
- Everywhere is like home Smart
- Everywhere feels like home
Now you need to understand in detail each service, its cost, conditions and connection methods.
All Russia Smart
MTS clients who use tariff plans from the Smart line can activate an additional option called “All Russia Smart”. With such a service, users will be able to communicate, send messages, and access the Internet anywhere in Russia, at the same price as in their home region.
This option is available only by prepayment, and the monthly fee is 100 rubles/month. The fee is debited one-time every new month. The first debit is carried out during the activation of the service, and further debits will take place at the beginning of the new month, on the day the service is activated.
To activate this service, you need to dial a short request *111*1031# on your device and make a call. By the way, using a similar combination, you can disable the service if it is no longer needed. Connection and disconnection is also carried out through your personal account.
If you activate the service and use communications outside your region, the 15 rubles per day tariff will not be charged.
On Smart and Hype tariffs, activate the Additional package of 200 minutes.
Everywhere is like home Smart
For users who use certain tariff plans from the Smart family, it is recommended to use the offer called “Smart at home everywhere”. For whom exactly the service is available, you can find out on the operator’s website. With the option connected, you can communicate and send messages, as well as access the Internet while outside your home region, but the tariffs will be similar to your home network.
It is recommended to find out all the details on tariffs for roaming in Russia for a specific tariff plan on the MTS website. It is worth noting that users who have an active Smart, Smart+, Smart Nonstop, Smart Top, or Unlimited plan will not be able to connect to the service. For other offers from the tariff line, activation remains possible. You can activate or deactivate using the service combination *111*1021#. After the introduction, you need to make a call, and then a menu for further actions will be turned on.
The subscription fee for the service will be 100 rubles per month. The first debit will be at the time of activation of the service, and subsequent funds will be charged from the new month, on the date of activation of the service.
Call abroad at the price for your home region! Wi-Fi Calling service
“Everywhere is like home”
This is an excellent offer for roaming in a country that has a subscription fee that is charged every day, but it should be noted that the option is very profitable and the client will be able to “recoup” the amount for one incoming call. Calls at standard rates are higher than the monthly fee. Using the option, users will not pay for incoming directions outside the home network, and the cost of the service will be 7 rubles/day. This service also works in Crimea.
There are still some benefits you need to know about:
- Low price for calls to any numbers in Russia.
- 100 free SMS.
In other words, whoever uses the offer will be able to enjoy preferential communication rates while in any region of the country. Free messages are added every day, incoming calls will be free and calls made will be cheap. Without connecting to the service, the cost of a call will be 8.9 rubles/min. With the service, a minute of conversation will be 3 rubles/min. The disadvantages of such an offer include an activation fee of 30 rubles. It is debited only once, during service activation.
To connect, network users can use their personal account or service request *111*3333#. In addition, there is another quick way to activate - send a message to 111, and indicate the number 3333 in the body of the letter. The service may already be connected, in which case you can clarify the data by message, where nothing is indicated. An empty SMS is sent to 8111. The response SMS will contain information about the status of the service.
After a trip or business trip, services can be turned off so that the subscription fee is not charged. To do this, you need to send a message to 111 and indicate 33330 in the body of the letter.
Super Bit
| 3 GB of Internet traffic in Russia | 350 rub/month. |
Many MTS clients have heard about this option and prefer to connect it when roaming. According to the terms, the subscriber is provided with 3 GB of Internet traffic free of charge per month. After they are exhausted, additional 500 MB packages are “turned on.” The cost of one package is 75 rubles. If necessary, you can refuse additional MB and use the “Turbo buttons”.
The cost of the option is 350 rubles/month. *111*628# is a command to activate the service on your number.
National roaming MTS in Crimea 2021
Especially many questions arise about MTS roaming in Crimea in 2021. Due to the difficulty of traveling outside the country this season, many Russian citizens are planning to spend their summer holidays in Crimea. The most popular questions from MTS subscribers are: how much does communication cost on the peninsula, how to activate MTS roaming in Crimea, what services and options to choose to save money?
Unfortunately, in Crimea there are still special conditions for the provision of communication services to MTS customers. This is due to the fact that the peninsula is under sanctions, as a result of which the cellular operator does not risk installing its towers in the republic. Therefore, when traveling to Crimea there is still national roaming . This means that MTS subscribers, entering the peninsula, automatically use the services of local telecom operators, remaining on their number.
The cost of minutes, SMS, Internet in Crimea will depend on the MTS tariff and connected additional options.
MTS mini
| 7 GB of Internet traffic in Russia | 500 rub/month. |
Subscribers of all tariff plans have access to the “Internet-Mini” option, valid in Russia. It allows you to access the Internet even outside your home region. An MTS client receives 7 GB of Internet traffic per month for 500 rubles.
To activate the service you need to enter the command *111*160#.
MTS VIP
| 30 GB of Internet traffic in Russia | 1200 rub/month. |
MTS customers who are not used to limiting their time on the Internet will like the “Internet-VIP” option, offering 30 GB of traffic during the day and unlimited at night. The monthly service fee of 1,200 rubles is debited at the time of connection. You can add an option to your number by dialing *111*166#.
The “Internet-Maxi” and “Internet-VIP” options also provide a discount on MTS TV. In the first case, clients receive a discount of 30%, in the second – 50%.
It is possible to reduce your communication costs while roaming MTS in Russia thanks to the options that the mobile operator offers its customers. Taking into account your needs, you can connect services that will help you make calls or access the Internet at a favorable price. The main thing is to take care of connecting the appropriate option in advance.
