MOSCOW, July 1 - RIA Novosti. In Russia, amendments to the Law “On Communications” come into force on July 1, according to which all incoming calls will be free. The calling subscriber will pay for these calls.

The innovation specifically applies to calls from landlines to cell phones, which are currently free for the calling party and paid for by the receiving party.

The cost of a call from landline phones to mobile phones, according to the decision of the Federal Tariff Service, will not exceed 1.5 rubles per minute, with the exception of the northern regions, where this service will cost 1.7 rubles, in Chukotka - two rubles, and in Yakutia - 2 .47 rubles.

The FTS decision also established minimum levels of tariff increases, which are defined as 50% of the maximum. Operators can set tariffs within minimum and maximum values.

Moreover, until January 1, 2007, tariffs for telephone connections of subscribers fixed line with subscribers mobile communications, having straight lines subscriber numbers, will remain unchanged, that is, they will correspond to the tariffs for local telephone connections.

Many subscribers cellular communications expressed fears that operators, in order to compensate for their costs, will increase the cost of outgoing calls and SMS messages from July 1.

Mobile operators surveyed by RIA Novosti said that this will not happen from July 1, but did not rule out raising tariffs in the future.

“From the first of July, fees for incoming calls will be abolished. And only then tariff plans will change as they are ready,” Megafon press secretary Marina Belasheva told RIA Novosti. “As expected, according to the law, we will notify our subscribers about changes to the existing tariffs for ten days."

According to the press secretary, it is necessary to “carry out serious calculations to see how much the volume of incoming and outgoing traffic will change.” And only after this the company will develop a “new business model,” Belasheva noted. At the same time, she admitted that an increase in tariffs is inevitable, but this will happen in stages and in different regions in different ways.

MTS spokesman Kirill Alyavdin said the company “does not yet have any specific plans” to increase tariffs. “The only thing that can be said with 100% certainty is that from the 1st all incoming calls will become free,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

“From July 1, tariffs will not change, with the exception of the abolition of incoming fees. And during July we will clarify our tariff policy,” said VimpelCom press secretary Yulia Ostroukhova.

VimpelCom has already calculated that the costs of Beeline network subscribers as a result of the abolition of incoming fees will be reduced by an average of 8%, and the tariff increase will be less than 8%. “If there is an increase, it will not affect all tariffs and will be insignificant,” Ostroukhova said.

Are incoming calls free?

Calls from landline telephones

The first and probably the most important category of calls is from a landline phone to a federal mobile phone (we'll talk about landline mobile phones a little later). Everything here is quite transparent: the owner of the mobile phone does not pay anything, and the money is withdrawn from the person who dials the number and initiates the call. But how much?

· If the call is made from home phone, then for a minute of conversation you will have to pay 1.5 rubles, which approximately corresponds to 5.6 cents. In principle, such a call is cheaper than, for example, a call from a mobile to a landline. Especially taking into account that the real 5.6 cents does not correspond to the cents indicated in the operator’s tariffs.

· If they call from a street payphone, then a minute will cost 4.5-15 rubles, depending on which payphone card is used. This, of course, is much more expensive than calling from home or even from a mobile phone, but in some situations there is no other choice. For example, if the account runs out of money or the battery runs out.

· On landline phones where eight is disabled, you will have to use IP telephony cards. Here everything will depend only on the operator whose services you use. Accordingly, the cost of a minute will range from 1.9 to 4.2 rubles. Again, dialing a number via a “card” takes much longer than simply dialing a number via “eight”.

· From a work (office) phone, a call to a federal mobile phone will cost 1.77 rubles. But the most pleasant part of calling from work is that you have to pay bills legal entity, that is, the company in which it is registered landline number. However, office phones often have a 8 blocker... in this case, see above.

· Many modern phones allow you to send SMS. The cost of a message to a mobile phone is 1 ruble, to another home message – 75 kopecks.

In principle, prices do not bite very much. In most countries where CPP has long been the norm, prices are much higher. For example, in Ukraine, which switched to the “All Incoming Free” system more than two years ago, a call from a landline to a mobile costs 19 cents. And until July 13, 2006 it’s even worse – 23 cents. Compared to our southern neighbors, we are still doing very well.

As a result of long negotiations and a kind of “tug of war”, compensation to mobile operators for incoming traffic was determined - 95 kopecks. Those. Of the 1.5 rubles that a city network subscriber pays per minute of conversation, 95 kopecks go to the operator’s piggy bank. The remaining 55 kopecks go to the city telephone network account. Let's find out what cellular and wireline operators think about this.

Expert opinions

Some of the largest players in the domestic market expressed their opinions regarding CPP in Russia specifically for Ferra.ru:

MGTS (press service):

It is too early to talk about any concrete results from the introduction of the SPP system. We will be able to get the first results only at the end of July/beginning of August, and then they will be very approximate. This is for us and for everyone telephone operators In general, Russia has the first experience with the “All Inbox Free” system. Any figures that can be called general results, the results of the introduction of the SRR, will not appear very soon.

In essence, we are subject to the law; MGTS has not shown any initiative regarding the introduction of new rules. However, we believe that this change in the market is at least fair for mobile subscribers.

The cost of 1 minute (1.5 rubles) was determined not only by us. In general, tariffs are determined by the FTS (Federal Tariff Service). To determine the final cost of the interconnect, several meetings were held at which all parties that would be affected by the new changes were represented. Nothing can be said at this time regarding further increases or decreases in prices. But the FTS states that until January 1, 2007, everything will remain unchanged.

MTS (Kirill Alyavdin, press secretary):

The obvious advantage of introducing the “caller pays” principle for MTS subscribers was the elimination of fees for incoming calls.

However, due to the low tariff for interconnection (inter-operator connection), which was established by the Federal Tariff Service, MTS is going to introduce a connection fee in a number of tariffs at the level of 35 to 50 kopecks (including VAT) depending on the region and tariff plan for outgoing calls lasting more than three seconds.

It should be noted that in general, MTS subscribers will spend less on communications after the introduction of CPP and connection fees. Because all incoming calls will be free. In any case, the introduction of connection fees will not exceed the level of reduction in user costs after the abolition of fees for incoming calls. And we must not forget that many millions of people with low incomes living in Russia will have the opportunity to be constantly in touch without spending a penny on it. And their friends and relatives who call them will not be afraid that their call will cost the person dearly. Therefore, since we have millions of subscribers with small incomes, the introduction of CPP will even have a positive impact on their loyalty to MTS, taking into account our wide coverage and presence throughout Russia.

Sky Link (Olga Pestereva, Director of Public Relations):

This is a common practice accepted throughout the world. At this stage, we have simply canceled the fee for all incoming calls for our subscribers on all tariffs throughout the entire territory of our presence, without increasing the cost of services in any of the tariff plans introduced before July 1, 2006.

It was quite easy for us to bring existing tariffs into line with the new requirements of the regulator, since the vast majority of our tariffs are unlimited, and incoming calls to them were not initially charged (for example, in the Moscow region, incoming paid calls accounted for only 7% of the voice traffic structure).

So far, no revolutions have occurred in our tariff policy, including our unlimited tariffs remain in effect (as before, they all include a certain amount of data traffic, and more than half of our subscribers use the mobile Internet). There will definitely be tariff news in the future, as serious structural changes are taking place that affect all market participants. We will make decisions depending on the development of the situation.

The attitude is positive, the market is developing and change is inevitable. In this situation, we are particularly interested in the content market. For us, the obvious advantage is that CPP catalyzes the development of Sky Link as an operator that can technologically provide 3G services based on high speed mobile data transmission, including multimedia services.

The initiator of the introduction of SRR was the Ministry of Communications and the State Duma. And although the operators themselves were not the first to rush into battle, most of them assessed the new rules positively.

Operators and their “subtleties”

It is not surprising that MGTS consider CPP a “fair” innovation - they only make profit from calls. 55 kopecks per minute. For mobile operators, the situation is not so rosy, because the 95 kopecks they receive from a call from a landline is the same 95 kopecks that they have to pay as compensation to “fellow operators” for a call from their network to their federal number. The so-called interconnect works not only according to the “city number - federal mobile” scheme, but also according to the “mobile from network A – mobile from network B” scheme. So operators will have to compensate quite a lot of costs. At meetings where it was decided what and how much it would cost new system, MTS representatives named the approximate losses of the mobile communications market - $1 billion per year. This amount is most likely overestimated, but there is no doubt that operators will have to somehow make up for the 10% of profit they received from incoming ones. Let's try to consider the main ways of “compensation”.

Roaming

Probably the easiest way to increase the cost of communication without unnecessary panic for the majority of subscribers is roaming. Many people are too lazy to connect to the local network on vacation/on a business trip; many simply cannot change their work number, and for them there are no alternatives to roaming. Therefore, under the slogan “for the convenience of subscribers,” operators, a few weeks before the transition to the new “rails,” changed the very system of calling tariffs for subscribers located outside their “home” region. Now the entire globe is divided into several huge roaming zones. Undoubtedly, this is more convenient than before, when each country had its own prices, but, alas, conversations abroad have not become cheaper. Let’s compare the prices of the main operators using the example of the “Europe” tariff zone.

Prices from operators are indicated differently, in different currencies. For example, Megafon has completely switched to rubles, Beeline uses both dollars and rubles, and MTS adheres to dollar prices. For greater transparency and clarity, all prices are converted into rubles including VAT and rounded to the nearest 0.1 ruble.

It should also be noted that the “Season of Warm Words” promotion is valid for Megafon subscribers until the end of September. In fact, a very advantageous offer for vacationers abroad: incoming and local calls will cost 19 rubles, and a call to Russia will cost 49 rubles.

Old tariffs in a new way

Another action on the part of Megafon (however, not at all as pleasant as the “Season of Warm Words”) was the modification of old tariffs. The Olight and FIX tariffs, which were extremely popular at one time, have risen in price, since Megafon simply cannot afford to leave the prices the same. Olight now costs 1.20 rubles. per minute of call to another mobile (including Megafon), one SMS costs the same. An outgoing call to a city or region will cost 6.49 rubles. Of course, bonuses for incoming calls have stopped working, but this is not surprising. Another thing is surprising - why didn’t Olight rise in price even more? After all, Megafon must pay 0.95 rubles per minute of interconnection. It turns out that the profit per minute of conversation will be 25 kopecks. The benefit is doubtful. The company probably expects that Olight users will conduct most of their conversations within the network the old-fashioned way.

There are other changes with the FIX tariff - now you will have to pay a subscription fee of 295 rubles per month. But outgoing calls to mobile phones in the Moscow region are 3.16 rubles, and calls to landlines and to the region are 6.32. However, as before, there is still a connection limit of 30 minutes. It is interesting, however, that even with two half-hour calls a day, subscription fee no longer compensates for the costs of interconnection. Consequently, by introducing a subscription fee, Megafon most likely wants to get rid of low-budget FIX users, of whom there were a lot at one time.

MTS and Beeline did not resort to such measures as tuning old tariffs at the time of preparation of this material, for which subscribers are very grateful to them. But there are much more veiled and accurate ways to raise communication prices without scaring off subscribers. Let's look at some of them.

Well, a very conventional unit

It has already been said that operators indicate their prices differently. Megafon is the only company that has completely switched to “rubles including VAT”. Beeline and MTS still have tariffs that are calculated in “dollars”. The quotation marks are not accidental, because the dollar, according to the exchange rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, costs 26 rubles. 70 kopecks (as of July 13, 2006), and the conventional unit of mobile operators this summer stopped at 28.7, i.e. 2 rubles more expensive. Of course, when calculating the cost of one minute of conversation, this difference is insignificant, but if you compare the income of operators in real dollars with conventional units based on the results of the month, you get “strange mathematics.” For example, MTS profit per subscriber averages $6.5 per month . Thus, the subscriber loses only 12-13 rubles due to the difference in rates - nonsense! On the other hand, MTS's subscriber base includes more than 62 million users. A couple of clicks on the calculator and the (of course, highly averaged) profit from such “conventions” becomes visible - $28 million. And until all these more than conventional “dollars”, “euros” and the very mysterious “cu” ." will not leave price lists and price lists (that is, until the beginning of 2007), we will have to diligently study the notorious “strange mathematics”.

End of promotions, end of cheap services

The most inconspicuous and at the same time one of the most effective ways return of money that began to actively disappear with the introduction of the SRR. MTS, for example, canceled the 50% discount on outgoing calls, replacing it with a 25% discount. And for those who chose a 50% discount on incoming messages, the compensation is even less - outgoing ones will become only 15% cheaper. Those who are not happy with this situation are given the opportunity to try the new prices in action until the end of the summer and, if they do not want to continue the contract, terminate it without penalties.

Payment mobile Internet has also undergone some changes. For example, Megafon used to count GPRS Internet traffic as follows: once every 3 minutes with a rounding accuracy of 8 kbytes. Now the counting of incoming/outgoing data has changed: once every 15 minutes there will be rounding up with an accuracy of 100 kbytes. Thus, those who use GPRS to browse websites, read live magazines, etc. may not notice much of a difference. But young people who sit on ICQ and check their email every half hour will shell out very well. For example, for checking empty mailbox 48 times a day before, the user gave some 65 kopecks. per day. Now such pleasure will cost at least 7 full rubles.

The “bee” operator is not without sin. From the first of July, you cannot make a number “favorite” if it is not a Beeline number. So now you can talk at half the price only with subscribers from your own network. But for some users this is not so important, because there are quite a lot of tariffs in which outgoing calls to mobile phones within the network cost half as much as calls to phones from other operators.

CCD

Another trick, which in principle is not new, is connection fees.

It’s not that it was somehow veiled, hidden - no, it’s just that CCD gives opportunities to the strong advertising campaign. After all, in commercials, on posters and on the radio, only the cost of a minute is reported, which can be really small. And then it turns out that you will have to pay the same amount (if not more) for simply hearing a voice from the speaker. It should be noted that CCD works very well in conjunction with per-minute billing, since most calls usually do not exceed 1-3 minutes. Recently information appeared that MTS is introducing CCD on old, archival tariffs. It is expected that the connection fee will be 35-50 kopecks. There is nothing listed in the “archive” on the site yet, so you should wait for either an update to this section or an official statement from the company on this matter. But if you remember the once very popular “Jeans” tariff with per-second billing, then its profitability, in fact, will not decrease - because previously you had to pay 10-15 cents for a minute of an incoming call, but now it will be free. So Jeans subscribers should be advised to change their habits a little and give up the usual 5-second conversations in favor of longer communications. But until official data appears, let’s not guess on the tea leaves.

It also became known that Beeline is going to introduce a connection fee on its old archive tariffs. It is not yet clear what its size will be, but VimpelCom said from the very beginning of the introduction of the SPP that 95 kopecks is not serious compensation. However, only the old dollar tariffs will suffer. The new ruble line remains unchanged for now.

City mobile is no longer quite urban

Another problem that was brewing before the introduction of CPP, but was resolved painlessly - direct mobile numbers. It goes without saying that a person calling from a landline phone does not have to pay for a call to the same seven-digit city number. On the other hand, the owner of a mobile phone also, according to the new law, does not owe anyone money for incoming call. The question is: who pays for communications? And how to distinguish a seven-digit mobile phone from a seven-digit landline phone? MGTS does not have such an opportunity. Therefore, the Ministry of Communications passed a new law stating that all seven-digit numbers, in fact, belong to the city network, and all mobile numbers must be 10-digit. Thus, it becomes possible to distinguish between calls to mobile phones and other home calls. However, no one will take away beautiful numbers from subscribers - everyone will be given a federal “backup” to which calls will be forwarded. Those. if you had a number 555-55-55, then an MGTS subscriber calling from a landline phone is redirected to the federal number (***) 555-55-55, where *** is the prefix mobile operator. It is interesting that the caller still does not pay a penny, and money is withdrawn from the owner of the mobile phone for the so-called forwarding.

We see this situation in the tariffs of Megafon and Beeline. MTS, which spoke very unequivocally about introducing such measures, has so far refrained from them. So if you are the owner of at least the simplest contract like “Profi 30”, but with a city number, all incoming calls are truly free for you. With Beeline, this is the situation: for all tariffs of the “Live Easy” line, a fee of 10 cents per minute of forwarding is set, which, when converted into rubles including VAT, will be 3 rubles. 39 kopecks For the “Free Style” tariff, forwarding is free, which is not surprising - that’s why it’s unlimited.

Megafon is not that rich at all tariff plans, providing the possibility of direct landline number. To be more specific, there are two of them: “Challenge 2XL” and “Challenge Xtreme”. For both, a fee of 3 rubles per forwarded minute is set. Interestingly, “Extreme” is an unlimited tariff, but you will have to pay for incoming calls with a direct number. Thus, a funny situation arises: an “Xtreme” subscriber, receiving a call from a landline phone, will say “I’ll call you back now!”, because outgoing calls to the phone of the MGTS network are free for him. And this is in the era of “Free All Inbox.”

However, not quite “Everything”

It is also worth considering those moments when the owner of a federal mobile will still have to pay for an incoming call. Fortunately, there are not many of them.

· When they call you using the “Call at the expense of the called subscriber” service. In the West, such a service has existed for many years and is called Collect Call. A person who, for some reason, does not have money, but needs to call him urgently, dials the operator’s number, the subscriber’s phone number says. The subscriber receives a call from an operator who offers to accept the conversation “at his own expense” or refuse it. It is not yet entirely clear when this service will become available, but it will be introduced here too.

· If you received a call back from the paid help desk where you ordered information. For example, from 009.

· If you receive a call from a number that has an “access code” (like a hotline number, like 8-800-…). Perhaps your friend works on one of these phones, and then a call from him to you will be charged for both. Although, of course, you would rather call hotline than she is to you.

· Roaming Everything is clear here, for more specific information about prices, see above.

Whose life has become easier?

The introduction of SRR is undoubtedly a natural and logical step. A step towards a civilized, developed mobile telecommunications market. It is still quite early to judge how civilized the implementation of the new bill will be. Most likely, prices for both city networks and mobile operators will change. The prices for communication that we are offered today are just preliminary. Dozens of market studies must be done before we see (and experience) the final tariffs. So for now we should rejoice at the quite acceptable one and a half rubles and not at all draconian measures on the part of mobile operators. And life has become easier mainly for those who receive calls, which, in principle, is obvious. Those who solve questions, help with problems and just listen a lot. Of course, it has become easier for the owners of direct numbers and their friends with landlines. And, of course, life has become easier for wired telephone networks, which, albeit a little, earn money from every minute of conversation.

Results

Probably the main conclusion for today is the fact that the abolition of incoming fees did not make anyone much worse. Yes, someone will have to shell out an extra few hundred rubles a month for calls to mobile phones, but you should be glad that it’s not a few hundred dollars (which, as you know, is never extra). Everything is much better than it could be!

Device owners are faced with the problem of call recognition different manufacturers and mobile platforms. If you cannot detect incoming numbers, then there is a possibility that you will have to try several methods. However, they are all quite simple, especially for an advanced user. All these methods will be relevant for subscribers of different operators (MTS, Megafon, Beeline, Tele2).

Why are calls not showing up?

In most cases, for subscribers with this problem, all calling numbers are defined as “Unknown”. Contrary to the assumption of many, this happens not only through the fault of the user. List possible reasons:

• incorrect number format;
• problems with flashing or updating;
• lack of operator service – Caller ID;
• duplicate numbers.

If the cause is established, then recovery will take a minimum of time.

Where to begin

For subscribers who have recently purchased a number and not only, it is recommended to start by checking the list of services of the telecom provider. “Caller ID” for some operators is a separate service; there is a possibility that they forgot to activate it. Look into Personal Area on the website or download branded application, where you can study the list of available and disabled services.

Number identification - demon payable service for Beeline, MTS, Tele2, Megafon. Note! There are more and more cases when operators disable all services, including free ones, for subscribers whose balance is in the red. If this includes caller ID, it will also be disabled, so study this point.

Don't rule out the possibility of a prank. It is likely that one of my acquaintances purchased the number hiding service and tried to call several times. From the outside it may look like incoming numbers are not being identified, although in reality it is one person.

Let's move on - let's look at the numbers

There is a possibility that calls from contacts whose numbers begin with code 8 will be unknown or not identified as phone book numbers. Write down the numbers in the new format, starting with the code +7. In some cases, spacing is required, but this is quite rare.

• For Android and iOS, all kinds of dialers, of which there are plenty in the markets, can help for a while. For example, True Phone, PixelPhone or exDialer.
• Many manufacturers produce their own shells. Disable its optimization. This can be done in the Developer menu - disable this mode. This point is typical for Xiaomi with its own MIUI.
• Perform a wipe of data (cache memory) in the “Phone” application and con.android.phone. Do this through “Settings” - “Applications”.

By the way, read this article too: Why Xiaomi does not update over the air - all solutions

Let's sum it up

There are many ways to correct the situation, but it all depends on the operator, device model, installed firmware, shell and other factors. If the proposed methods did not help, which happens in isolated cases, and incoming numbers are not identified completely (writes Unknown) or partially (does not associate the caller with a phone book contact) - all that remains is to take the gadget to the service center. Do not forget to first contact the support of the operator and the manufacturer.

To block incoming calls, you will need to create a list of those users whom you do not want to hear - the so-called “black” list. You can enter absolutely all contacts into it, thereby prohibiting incoming calls from familiar people. The “black list” option can be found in basic settings phone, and newer models even have advanced capabilities. If this option is not available on your device, you can use third party applications or the services of mobile operators to block incoming calls. Let's take a closer look at how the blacklist works and what to do if such an option is not provided on your phone.

How to block incoming calls in a regular push-button phone

A built-in barring function for incoming calls exists in almost every phone model. The only difference is in the interface - the ways to create a blacklist can differ significantly.

To add an unwanted contact to your regular blacklist push-button telephone(using the example of Samsung E2252), we go this way:

• We go to the main menu of the phone.

• We execute a series of commands: “Settings” – “Calls” – “All calls”.

• Open the “Black List” tab.

• The “Black List” itself and the “Off” button will appear on the screen.

• Then click “Black list” and add unwanted contacts to it.

• You can add it from “Contacts”, “Call Log”, or enter a phone number into the blacklist manually.

• After adding unwanted contacts to the blacklist, change the “Disabled” option to “Enabled”.

• Blacklist enabled. Calls from people on the list will be automatically rejected, you will only be able to see missed calls from these callers.

How to block incoming calls on Android touch phones

In some touch phones With operating system Android has a special option for banning and managing unwanted contacts. “Block Mode” is a built-in feature that has advanced capabilities for managing notifications from those people who are on your blacklist. Let us remind you that these settings may differ for different manufacturers of telephone devices. How to set up barring of incoming calls using “Blocking Mode”:

• We go to the main menu.

• Open “Settings”.

• We look for and open “Block mode”, it should be in an inactive state.

The following text will appear on the screen: “When you enable this mode, notifications for the selected functions will be disabled. You will only receive notifications about calls from people on your white list."

• We activate “Blocking mode” and customize it to suit your requirements.

• Select the functions you need (“disable incoming calls,” for example) and check the box next to them. In blocking mode, we set the time when the blocking will be in effect.

• The most important thing: we manage contacts. We create a list of users to receive calls and notifications from those people who are on the white list. You can create a white list manually (Favorites), you can select the “All contacts” option or block absolutely all calls.

How to block incoming calls through the Google play market service

For devices with the Android operating system, there are special applications that can be used to block incoming calls and messages. Let's take a closer look at the installation and operating features of the Black List program. Install the application on your Android device in this way:

• Go to the main menu, find the built-in icon Google programs play market.

• Opening Google service play, enter the name in the search bar desired application- "Black list".

• A list of similar programs will appear on the screen; select “Black List”.

• Open the application, click “Install”, confirm permission to install the application on your phone.

• After successful installation, the active “Open” button will appear on the screen, click on it.

• The application will open in the “Black List” tab, in the lower right corner you will see a “+” sign for adding contacts.

• Press “+”, the screen will show extra menu“Add”: from the contact list, enter a number (manually), starting with an alphanumeric combination or numeric (you will need to define the search parameters).

How to block incoming calls using your mobile operator

If there is no integrated function for barring incoming calls, you can use the services of your mobile operator or install a special application to manage incoming data (the “Black List” application, for example).

To block incoming calls from specific number, dial the service combination of numbers and order the service from the mobile communications manager. Incoming call barring is a paid service; please check with your operator for pricing.

We looked at setting up a blacklist in a regular phone step by step, setting up a ban on incoming calls using the internal functions of a newer phone model, installing a program for managing unwanted contacts on an Android smartphone, and connecting a blacklist service through a mobile operator.