Many of us love to communicate on a mobile phone. Often, communication with friends and close relatives is delayed. Such conversations can lead to significant costs for mobile communications. However, subscribers of the mobile operator MTS received an excellent opportunity to forget about all these difficulties. Now everyone is able to communicate on the MTS network with their loved ones for up to 100 minutes a day. What made it possible to create such conditions for beneficial communication?
Today MTS offers its subscribers a unique option called “Call for free to MTS. As part of this option, you can communicate up to one hundred minutes on MTS per day with all network subscribers in your home region and throughout the country. Agree that this number of minutes is quite a lot. There are more than enough positive reviews about the option in question, because the benefits of activating it are obvious. Although some subscribers have questions about how to disable the service without unnecessary difficulties. What needs to be done for this? But first you need to understand what benefits it gives users.
Every subscriber who uses a tariff plan called “Super MTS” can activate the option. If you are one of the users of this tariff, you can activate “Call for free to MTS Russia 100”. Within its framework, you will receive 1 hour and another 40 minutes for your communication per day. The service will be relevant for those who prefer live communication within the network quite a lot, and also if you have enough relatives and friends in different regions of the country. And on holidays, the option is completely indispensable.
The cost of activating the option is very low and amounts to only 3.5 rubles. A subscription fee is charged for each day of using the option, which similarly amounts to 3.5 rubles. Payment is debited in advance for the next day at night. To connect the option, you can use one of the methods that suits you. Among them:
- Personal account, where you need to find the “Service Management” section and in the “Connecting new services” item, set a “cross” in the “Connect” line on this option.
- Send a short request * 868 # from your mobile phone.
- Send an SMS from your phone to 111 with the special text 866.
Disabling the option discussed in this article
In fact, disabling 100 minutes on MTS is extremely simple. If necessary, everyone can deactivate this option without unnecessary difficulties. There are several ways to do this, among which you will definitely be able to choose the most optimal option. It should be noted that all these methods of deactivating the service are similar to the methods of connecting it:
- Log in to your Personal Account" and deactivate the option using the "Internet Assistant".
- Use a simple USSD command * 111 * 868 #.
- Take your mobile phone and send a standard SMS message to the special service number 111 with the text 8680 written in it.
Everything is quite simple and clear. If you have difficulties with the procedure for connecting or disabling the option discussed in this article, then you can always count on the help of specialists from the MTS subscriber support center.
Free packages of minutes included in the tariff plan often end at the wrong time. To prevent this from happening, you can constantly monitor the status of your account by checking the balance. But there is a more convenient way - to extend communication by using the “Auto-renewal of minutes” service from Beeline. The operator will monitor the status of the balance and as soon as the main package of minutes is used up, the option will instantly add an additional one to your number, and you can continue the conversation, the main thing is that there is money on the balance.
Description and cost of the “Auto-renewal minutes” service
All “ALL” tariff plans with a subscription fee include packages of free minutes, SMS and Internet. Some users have enough of them, while others run out of packages ahead of time. It is for the second category of subscribers, so that they do not have to overpay for calls, that the “Auto-renewal of minutes” option was created.
Each additional package for 50 minutes is provided for 50 rubles.
There are no subscription fees or connection fees. Money is debited from your account only when additional minutes are activated. After the first package is used up, the next one will be automatically added.
If at the time the package is exhausted there is not enough money in the account to renew it, the service will not be activated. If you top up your balance, the service will resume only in the next billing period. That is, new minutes will be activated as early as the next month, and only after the main package included in the tariff plan has been used up.
The service is valid only in the home region and in domestic Russian roaming. When traveling abroad, the cost of calls will depend on the conditions of your tariff.
To automatically renew Internet traffic, a similar option “ ” is used, and to replenish the balance - “ “.
The option is enabled by default on all tariff plans of the “EVERYTHING!” line. Subscribers who use old tariffs can add the option themselves.
How to activate free minutes on Beeline?
Do you want to activate the “Auto-renewal minutes” option on Beeline? Use one of the following methods:
- Call 06740920 and wait for an SMS notification about successful activation.
- Use your Personal Account or application for smartphones and tablets
- Go to one of the new tariffs “ALL!” from another Beeline tariff plan
If you can’t figure out the connection yourself, call the operator at 0611 and ask a consultant to activate the service.
How to disable “Auto-renewal of minutes” on Beeline?
All methods are the same as connecting. The easiest way to disable the auto-renewal service for a package of minutes on Beeline is by calling 06740921. After the voice assistant answers, follow its prompts, and after the call, wait for an SMS about the successful completion of the operation.
Also, the option can be easily disabled in your Personal Account or in the “My Beeline” application. In order to use the help of a company specialist, you can visit the operator’s sales office, or call the support service at 0611.
For those subscribers who do not have enough minutes for calls in their tariffs, MTS has “provided” the “Additional packages of minutes” option. I will talk about the cost, limitations and methods of connecting and disabling this option in this short article.
“Additional packages of minutes” from MTS: detailed description
What tariffs are available for additional minutes?
The option can be activated on the following tariff plans:
- All tariffs of the “Smart” series, except for tariffs that contain “My Smart”, “MAXI Smart”, “Smart mini 102014” and “Smart mini 112013” in their names;
- All tariffs of the “Ultra” series, except for tariffs that contain “MAXI Ultra”, “Ultra 2010”, “Ultra 2011” and “Ultra 2012” in their names;
- Tariff "X" or "IKS" (formerly "Hype");
- Tariff "Smart device";
Terms of use of packages
- Minute packages are valid for calls to the same directions and principles as in the main tariff. For example, if the tariff includes a package of minutes for calls only to mobile phones in your home region, then the additional package will work the same way.
- When you activate a package, 100% payment for it is debited from your account immediately. Next payment is debited monthly until you disable the service. Do not forget this point, disable packages if you no longer need them.
- If you have activated an additional package, and there are still unused call minutes left in your tariff, then the additional package is consumed first, and only then the minutes from the tariff.
- Unused remaining minutes in additional packages for the next month not transferable.
“Additional packages of minutes” MTS: summary table
| Volume of minutes | Cost per month |
| 200 minutes | 150 ₽ |
| 400 minutes | 250 ₽ |
| 700 minutes | 450 ₽ |
| 1000 minutes | 600 ₽ |
How to connect additional minutes
- The option is activated through the subscriber’s personal account on the official MTS website (
The MTS bonus program offers excellent conditions for accumulating bonus points and subsequently exchanging them for interesting gifts and bonuses. In order to start accumulating points, you need to register in the bonus system and start spending money - details are listed on the MTS website. After accumulating points, you can start exchanging them. How to order minutes on MTS as part of the bonus system?
Brief description of the bonus program
Subscribers connected to the MTS bonus program receive special communication privileges. The more they spend, the more points are added to their mobile phone bonus balance. In the process of generating points, costs for mobile and home Internet, other communication services, as well as for purchases in MTS stores are taken into account. The accounting period is the previous calendar month.
Points are credited to the bonus balance no later than the 15th day of the month following the billing. That is, we will receive points for March before April 15. In order to find out the size of the bonus balance, you need to send the USSD command *111*455*0# or call the short service number 4555.
The easiest way to find out your bonus balance is through your “Personal Account” or through the “My MTS” mobile application. The application is also available on the social networks VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Facebook.
Have you received bonus points? Then it's time to spend it. There are a lot of bonus rewards, information about them is given on the official pages of the bonus program, in the “Rewards Catalog”. We are interested in rewards in the form of bonus minutes - there are two of them in total:
- “30 minutes to MTS numbers” for 210 points;
- “60 minutes to MTS numbers” for 300 points.
Using simple mathematical calculations, we can note that the second reward is much more profitable than the first, based on the cost of one minute expressed in bonus points. Let's now see how we can order this or that reward.
Order minutes through “Personal Account”
Before you start ordering minutes, you need to make sure that we have activated the Mobile Assistant service. To do this, we can visit the “Personal Account” and send an SMS with the number 0 to service number 8111. As soon as confirmation of the availability of the connected service is received ( provided without subscription fee), you can start ordering rewards.
We have already said that the easiest way to order additional minutes on MTS is through your “Personal Account”. We log in using your username and password and go to the section with the bonus program. Ordering rewards is also available on the official page of the program, but here we will again need a login and password from the “Personal Account”. Having chosen the reward you need, you should wait SMS with confirmation of crediting bonus minutes. After this, we look at the bonus balance - it will decrease by the corresponding number of points.
To order bonus minutes, you can use the My MTS mobile application - tools for ordering other rewards will also be provided here. How to check the remaining minutes on MTS, read our previous review.
Ordering bonus minutes on MTS is not possible when using tariff plans from the Smart line.
Order minutes via USSD commands
If you don’t have Internet access at hand, but you need to order bonus minutes, use the following USSD commands:
- *111*455*11# to order a package of 30 minutes;
- *111*455*12# to order a package of 60 minutes.
Bonus minutes will become available immediately after ordering them– an SMS notification will notify you of successful enrollment.
To check the remaining bonus minutes, you can use the USSD command *100*2#. It is possible to connect several bonus packages at once.
The mobile operator market exists in a competitive environment. And competition, in turn, implies that companies must fight for their subscribers and do everything possible to earn their loyalty. In reality, everything happens differently, and Russian mobile operators are not averse to once again reaching into the pockets of their subscribers to increase their profits. There are many ways to do this, and one of the most common is changes in tariffs, and MegaFon recently did something similar. The point is to extend the available package of minutes, which can be costly for subscribers.
The changes threaten additional costs for those subscribers who use tariff plans with a monthly subscription fee. Imagine that you have just such a tariff plan connected. And your tariff has an affordable package of minutes for a month. Once you spend this package, then, according to the updated terms of service, the connection will not be disconnected, as it usually happened. Instead, the package is automatically extended for another 30 minutes. If 30 run out, another 30 will be connected. And such an extension has no limit.
And this would not be a problem if, along with additional minutes, 50 rubles were not instantly debited from the account. The most curious thing is that the mobile operator MegaFon decided not to notify its customers about such an innovation. The news section on the official website is also in no hurry to expand on this topic. Apparently, the “caring” mobile operator has once again decided to be guided by the principle: the less you know, the better you sleep.
According to subscribers who have already experienced the innovations for themselves, it is impossible to disable the automatic renewal of the package of minutes on the tariff plan by any means. However, there is still one nuance that allows you to save your money, and we recommend that you pay attention to it and remember it. The additional package of voice minutes is not activated if there is not enough money in the subscriber’s account - that is, there is less than 50 rubles.
The current situation certainly cannot be called pleasant. Now all MegaFon subscribers with tariff plans that require a subscription fee need to regularly check the number of remaining voice minutes, otherwise there is a risk of getting auto-renewed for 50 rubles. And if there are several such extensions, then you will have to pay both all 100 and all 150 rubles. Well, or keep a symbolic 49 rubles in your account so that there simply isn’t enough for auto-renewal.
Previously, we talked about how the mobile operator MegaFon launched a “Smart Service” that allows subscribers to receive .