Mobile operators in Russia are planning to change the terms of Internet access. According to the newspaper “Vedomosti”, in the near future — this year may be canceled if the option “unlimited Internet”.
So, MTS company intends to cancel the tariff “Bezlimita”. According to the newspaper, she also did not rule out reducing the amount of gigabytes on the normal rates.
Common users who regularly look on your tablet or smartphone to video on YouTube, sit in social networks or communicate with friends Viber consume per month is not more than 5 gigabytes, with a maximum of 7. These figures are called experts of the market of cellular communication. According to the Director of analytical Agency Telecomdaily Denis Kuskov, mobile unlimited Internet is of a fairly small number of Russians is less than 5%.
“But it should be understood that these 5% of the download activity of the network, and prevent, in General, to work in it people who just use the Internet to download a few files, watching videos, and so forth,” — said the expert.
To become said that “Bezlimita” is only for smartphones and tablets, to connect it to the modem and to use a for Internet sharing on home devices can not. However, by simple manipulations both prohibition is easy to circumvent, what are some unscrupulous subscribers. Using modem download up to 100 gigabytes per month and create an increased load on the network.
It will be the main reason that unlimited Internet will soon refuse all mobile operators, said Executive Director and co-founder GetShopTV Sharif Carmo.
Earlier that mobile operators will abandon unlimited tariffs, reported the General Director of “VimpelCom” (brand “Beeline”) Kjell Johnsen. According to him, this is due to technical reasons: the 3G network is overloaded, 4G network loaded very quickly. The first of the major operators from unlimited Internet refused Yota (subsidiary brand of “MegaFon”).
the Representative of “VimpelCom” Anna imasheva told the newspaper that unlimited calling is essentially a marketing tool and real consumption of traffic is slightly higher than the normal rates with limited packages. “Unlimited calling constrain further development of the market, as the consumption of mobile Internet is growing, however, in the case of unlimited plans are equally paid and active users, those who use the Internet a little,” she explained.
Another operator “Tele2″ has no plans to abandon unlimited tariffs, but closely follow the changes in the market.
Bloggers also news about a possible waiver option with unlimited for phones and tablets is concerned.
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