Mobile connection up to 50% cheaper ?! Reality

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    Greetings.
    I want to tell you how you can save up to 50% on mobile communications. Without using geek's means. Like Skype.

    Foreword

    Few people know that mobile operators receive a huge percentage of income from those who once bought a SIM card, inserted and called. This is because when buying a tariff with an enticing inscription or on the advice of a consultant, most often we don’t think that time is running out, more and more offers are coming out from operators. And at old rates, the price rises.
    Operators specificallyraise prices on old tariffs. Motivating this so that users switch to new tariffs and not stay too old. But in reality, few people monitor changes in tariffs. The opinion is rooted in society that if it is written in a piece of paper 2 rubles a minute, then it will always be so. In fact, everything is different. Operators simply cash in on subscribers. And it's hard to find fault with them, because everything is for us, for our good.
    Unfortunately, really profitable old tariffs remained only for corporate users - connection to such tariffs is possible only in the gray market. For us, ordinary people are constantly raising prices.

    In this topic, the main emphasis is placed on the fact that for some reason your operator is happy with you. And you just want to save money as part of your carrier. Despite the fact that competitors are cheaper.
    However, those who wish can also take advantage of the recommendations from this topic and pick up something from the tariffs of another operator.
    In this topic, the emphasis will be placed only on logistics.
    No secrets. :)

    The main thing to start!


    A small example:


    In 2007, Beeline brought to the market the tariff for the first child. The attractive price of an SMS message was 1 ruble 45 kopecks. Times passed, at first there was an increase in prices in times of crisis to 2 rubles 20 kopecks. Today, the cost of SMS at this tariff is 3 rubles 95 kopecks. Whereas the continuation of the tariff for the first child’s * 2 rubles, 20 kopecks, the popular monster of communication + the price of sms and 1.5 rubles at all.

    Think it over! You bought a box inserted and think that everything is OK. And during this time you began to overpay almost 2.5 times more expensive.

    oh, how do they like *

    All prices are for Moscow and Moscow region


    If, you think, that Beeline only has a similar story, you are very mistaken. All operators of the so-called Big Three suffer from gluttony . But the topic is not what operators are bastards and bastards.
    Hedgehogs cried pricked but continued to eat the cactus. And how to make these cacti less. It’s cheaper to use communication.

    Glue, scissors, paper


    So, to save, we need:

    Mobile phone.
    Half an hour of free time.
    ± 200 rubles in the account.

    If everything is clear with the first two points. That with the third usually a bunch of questions.
    I explain that 200 rubles comes from the calculation of the cost of detailing the account and switching to a favorable tariff. Beeline detailing in 30 days costs 30 rubles. At MTS, Megaphone and TELE2 - for free.
    For the transition to a more favorable tariff, you will also have to fork out. From 90 to 150 rubles, depending on the operator.
    Feel the desire to save immediately somehow disappears. At the thought of having to pay 200 rubles. This is the whole calculation of the operators. Let me overpay, but I don’t want to give back 200 rubles right away. But in reality, the savings from today's investments will be greater than from overpayments on old tariffs.
    For complacency, we can only note that 100 rubles is a new number with a favorable rate. Another hundred rubles you save your number - a fairly inexpensive fee for the opportunity to save.
    In general, we can assume that the net expense of 100 rubles. unnecessarily, the first hundred rubles are inevitable on the path to savings.

    Prices are approximate, for Moscow and Moscow Oblast; for prices in other regions, I recommend contacting your operator’s technical support

    Process


    First, we need to get bill details in order to understand why and how much we pay. And is it possible to save on this?

    Account Details - a detailed description of the charges from your account, indicating the time and type of operation: call, sms, mms, Internet traffic. Mytarif.ru

    service published on its website a wonderful instruction on how to get detailed information from its operator. But in order not to create an extra habraeffect, I transferred this instruction to google docs. To get a password from your personal account, you need to contact the technical support of your MTS operator Beeline Megafon TELE2. So, we received the bill details, spending at the same time 30 ..... 150 rubles.










    Now, it needs to be analyzed using specialized services. On a habr there was an overview of two similar analyzers. These are: Tarifer.ru and MyTarif.ru

    Subjectively, I like mytarif.ru/ more , the interface looks fresher, and easier. However, Tarifer.ru gives more information, someone doesn’t really need it.

    Actually, we fill in the details on both services, and look at what the system advises us. However, if you have recently connected any discounts that significantly reduce the cost of your tariff. The system may be wrong.

    But this is a topic for those who have an old tariff. Here, exactly from the system will be good.
    Also on these sites you can find out what promotions, discounts you can connect. However, the most information about promotions and discounts is available on your operator’s website.
    Also, if you are ready to change your operator, the system may look for offers from competitors.

    After you have decided on the tariff. Which one you want to switch to should go to the operator’s website and clarify the cost of switching to this tariff.

    Then go to it. By typing a special team or in your account, where you ordered a bill details.

    All. This is how easy it is to start saving on such an ordinary thing as a mobile phone.

    Brief conclusions:
    (thanks to shedal and volch )

    1. Perhaps the tariff that you took is not the same as when you took it.
    2. Perhaps your mobile tariff is not optimal for your needs;
    3. Compare tariffs among themselves and choose the most suitable;
    4. To simplify the comparison, ask for details from the opsos and upload to services like mytarif.ru.

    Information from the developer Tarifer.ru Ulex

    On behalf of the developers, tarifer.ru would like to clarify something. We are now testing a new scheme of the service, so some users will not be able to directly download the details to the site. Instead, there will be a field for entering a phone number and password for your personal account (and a brief instruction on how to get a password, if it is not already).

    Why is that? I plan to write a separate article on Habr about this, but I will briefly tell you here:
    First, most people have difficulty getting details, including quite objective ones (for example, the Beeline server periodically lies and cannot fulfill requests).
    Secondly, and this is the main thing - call detailing does not give a complete picture. In most cases, it does not contain information about connected services, most often there is no information about periodic and one-time charges (subscription fees for tariff and additional services, some content services).
    Thirdly, we have expanded the list of features of our service. This is now not just a tariff selection.

    What the service does:
    After receiving the number and password, the robot enters the user's personal account, orders call details for the full calendar month, an account for the same period, analyzes the list of connected services, receives data on the current tariff and a list of tariffs that are available for transfer. After receiving and analyzing the data, several levels of recommendations are formed:
    - A list of “suspicious” services and paid services that could be implicitly connected (operators and content providers have a bunch of ways to do this) plus information on how to disable these services.
    - Recommendations for reducing costs without changing the tariff - which options, packages, favorite numbers to connect at the current tariff and what will be the benefit of this.
    - Recommendations on changing the tariff - which tariff to switch to and which services to connect, while maintaining the current number.
    - Recommendations on changing the tariff with changing the number.

    In other words, we are developing a service that will allow you to do a full audit of mobile costs, which will check whether everything is in order and what there are ways to optimize, as well as protect against scammers and imposed services.

    Today it works in test mode for Moscow subscribers of MTS, Beeline, MegaFon. For the rest of the regions, everything is unchanged so far - it is possible to upload the drilldown file directly to the site and select rates. By the way, today we support 15 regions and about 70 detail formats.

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