Mobile Net

Whose mobile Internet cheaper? 

Internet, more and more part of our lives, sometimes replacing the television and radio, and even live communication. And since over time people become increasingly mobile, the worldwide network and seeks to mobilize. Today we look at the proposal of the Moscow mobile operators on the mobile Internet. 

SKYLINK: "Want to twice as fast?" 

Skylink - mobile communication operator of the new generation working in the CDMA 2000 standard 450MHz. Of the many advantages of this standard today we are only interested in one thing - fast mobile Internet. Maximum data transfer rate can reach 153 Kbps. It should be noted that this rate is calculated, in reality, it is certainly somewhat less, but still not comparable with conventional GPRS-Internet.

Tariffs for mobile Internet services with Skylink not the cheapest. For example, on the unlimited tariff plans (TP) value of 1MB as adopted and the data sent is $ 0.41, charging for 1K. In other TP cost 1MB of data is $ 0.30. All prices include VAT.

Skylink also provides a fairly unique service SkyTurbo. The essence of this service is that when working in the Internet server-side SkyLink is compressed data stream, which greatly increases the speed of data transmission. In some cases, the transmission rate can reach 1 Mbps. For this service are not charged any extra money, you just need to change the access settings:

user name (login): mobile@mppc.skylink.msk.ru
password (password): internet

Make sure that your connection supports software compression. For users running Windows 2000/XP: enable "software compression" option in the protocol PPP;
enable "Compressing IP-header" in the additional parameters of the protocol TCP / IP.

WARNING: Please note that the service SkyTurbo not available for OS Windows 95/98/ME.

In fairness, we note that among the TAs of this Addiction, there are enough interesting proposal, in which the cost of Internet access is only $ 0.097 / MB (up to 1 GB per month, the price without VAT).

Beeline: "The subscription fee is somewhere nearby"

One of the leaders of the Moscow region's subscribers, who works in the standard GSM 900/1800, has the largest audience of mobile Internet users in Russia. Beeline is the only operator in Moscow, which charges a subscription fee for GPRS-Internet. She makes $ 3.54 per month for subscribers of the advance or the credit payment system, and $ 0.11 per day for all tariffs BI + and settlement systems Online. Activation of the service costs $ 0.12 for all kinds of tariff plans. Cost of 1MB of data is $ 0.22 around the clock. When using the service in national roaming tariffs remain unchanged.

It should be noted that the BeeLine have long been plans to provide mobile Internet services based on technology EDGE, but the exact timing is still there. This technology will allow GSM operators to achieve in times of high speeds of mobile Internet, compared with the technology of GPRS.
Megaphone: "And at night we can make a profit"

MegaFon provides mobile Internet is not only based on GPRS, but also technology-based EDGE, with data transfer rate up to 200Kbit / s at the peaks. But, unfortunately, EGDE-compatible base stations to date quite a bit:

Address test zones EDGE in Moscow region
Moscow, Berezhkovskaya nab.
Moscow, Vorob'evy gory, MSU
Moscow Exhibition Center "Crocus"
Moscow, Kadashevskaya nab.
Moscow, Neman pr-d
Moscow, Lilac Blvd
Moscow, Shopping center "Gorbushka"
Ul. Nikitskaya
Ul. B. Petushkova
Ul. Vyatka
Ul. Tver
Moscow Region, Dmitrov, st. Hospital
Moscow region, Zhukovsky
Moscow region, Noginsk Str. Working
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevo Str. May Day
Moscow region, Elektrostal
Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk rn, n. Glagolyev
Moscow region, Naro-Fominsk rn, n. Selyatino
Moscow region, Odintsovo, p / o Big Vyazemy
Moscow region, Orekhovo-Zuevsky rn, n. Avsyunino

List of test areas is constantly growing.

However, MegaFon is the first operator, which opened access to EDGE in Moscow. Rates for GPRS and EDGE are absolutely the same, so let's look at the operator's proposals for the GPRS-Internet.

On all contract TA, except TP "Solo", the cost of 1 MB of data is $ 0.53 during the day, and $ 0.06 at night - which is a very good proposal for night users of mobile Internet. Subscription fee for the service there.

The TA "Individual" cost of 1 MB of data is $ 0.24 around the clock. Subscribers TP Series "Light" are provided so-called packages, the cost per package is $ 1.77, it includes 3 MB of data.
MTS: "Subscribers Jeans are full of hope"


MTS company provides mobile Internet services only contract subscribers. All subscribers TP Series "Jeans", which in the vast majority of companies do not have the opportunity to use services based on GPRS. The company has long promised to begin providing services to all subscribers, but so far things are there.

Tariffs for using GPRS on all the TP, except for "Jeans are as follows: from 8 am to 22 pm 1 MB of data costs $ 0.30, from 22 pm to 8 am on weekends and holidays - $ 0.20 per 1 MB of data . Fee for services based on GPRS is not charged.

If we talk about as a GPRS-Internet, it depends on many factors. Determining factor is the fact that all operators precedence in the network is worth it for voice communications, an exception may be only SkyLink, since this network was originally built around the use of mobile Internet. Therefore, the service itself GPRS-Internet provided "as is", which is written in the contract for almost all operators.