In Russia, the popularity of mobile gadgets is growing every day. Their existence is tightly tied to a stable and accessible internet. Today, our Internet expert will conduct for you, our beloved readers, an objective and independent analysis of the proposals of the country's leading mobile operators.
Freedom from wires or speed?
Let's try to find the fastest mobile internet
high speed internet on the mobile device– a thing, undoubtedly, important and useful. Without fast mobile connection today, nowhere, or rather, anywhere with him: find out if it will rain, lay out the best walking or car route in seconds, find out which movie to go to, and much more.
Can a modem compete with a wire today? Until recently, speed was the prerogative of the cable. The fixed idea of the last five years - to get rid of the wires for real, is becoming more and more tangible every year. Quick wireless Internet encroaches on a piece of the user pie, which for a long time, and, it seemed, forever, is in the hands of companies that open access to the global web via cable. But technology does not stand still, and a real alternative to wires is presented. What it will be, probably, about twenty years ago, and no one could guess.
Perhaps she is already knocking on the door to users with offers that are difficult to refuse. After a couple of years mobile modem should be a convenient alternative for laptop owners. The wireless connection option will firmly enter the lives of users.
What will be the mobile Internet: a look into the future
Fast mobile Internet is very convenient!
I would like to talk a little about the prospects. Last time we chose the tariff for the tablet. It turned out to be a 4G Internet line from Megafon, consisting of four tariffs S, M, L, XL.
Wireless Internet in its fourth incarnation amazes even the public accustomed to various it-benefits. Today it is clear that 4G networks are the future. With their development, users expect big leaps in connection quality and traffic speed. Even the fastest 3G Internet cannot be compared with the new generation of mobile networks. Who knows, maybe 4G will be the killer of the wired connection.
Already, the largest 4G network from Megafon includes more than 160 cities throughout Russia. According to the company's management, this moment a course has been taken to expand the coverage area of 4G and gradually abandon 2G and 3G in general. Perhaps soon other companies will make a qualitative breakthrough in the mobile Internet. Look forward to!
Comparing the speed
Today we will compare the conditions offered by the big mobile three and identify the provider of the fastest mobile Internet.
So, we compare the conditions for providing the maximum quick access to the network from the three largest domestic operators: MTS, Beeline and Megafon. Let's try to find out which of them meets the needs of users to a greater extent, compare the speed and volume of traffic. Only tariffs available throughout the country are taken into account. Go!
MTS
Red-whites offer their SuperBIT tariff. Such a package costs 299 rubles per month, which is slightly less than 3 rubles per day. The description of the tariff contains the phrase "unlimited Internet at high speed." Is it so? We understand: the daily traffic quota is set at around 100 MB. This is enough to check mail and view images (within reasonable aisles). When the quota is exceeded, the speed is reduced to 128 Kbps.
I looked for more: MTS-sheep offer us to connect a wonderful “turbo” service for 19 rubles, which will allow us to remove the traffic speed limit for 20 minutes. To what extent this option is generally effective and justified is up to users to decide. But personally I have she met misunderstanding. What is the use of it personally for you, and whether it is at all, decide for yourself.
Beeline
The flagship offer of fast 3G Internet for the striped is the “Try the Internet” tariff. The available amount of traffic per month is 1 GB. Using the method of simple arithmetic operations, we calculate that this is three times less than that of MTS, and amounts to 30 MB per day. Why in this case the high speed of the Internet? To use up the daily limit in half an hour? Unclear.
What's with the price? It is written in large numbers that access costs 3 rubles / day. Acceptable. We open detailed information about the tariff and find out that 3 rubles / day are the conditions of the first month (so that's why the tariff is called that way!) From the second month and for all subsequent ones the price is 7 rubles / day. Which again is more than twice as expensive as that of MTS. Ahead was Megafon. High-speed Internet from Beeline, to put it mildly, looks unconvincing today.
Megaphone
Megafon tariff, intended for all residents of our vast country - "Internet S + 4G". In our minds, we put a tick in front of 4G (the speed is already completely different). Traffic is provided in the amount of 3 GB per month. Just like MTS.
The subscription fee is 390 rubles per month, which is 90 kopecks per day more expensive than MTS, and, in fact, 3 rubles cheaper than Beeline. However, here, as in the case of tariffs for high-speed connection for a tablet, there is a progressive discount system that makes long-term cooperation profitable.
For example, when connecting the service for a year, the discount will be 30%, and 3.27 kopecks will be charged per day. When connecting the Internet for 6 months, the discount is also quite pleasant - 20%. As a result, Megafon, other things being equal with MTS, can also offer 4G for 30-40 kopecks per day (and this is a nominal speed of up to 50 Mbps). Whether you need very fast Internet from Megafon, decide for yourself.
I hope this article will help you understand a little about the conditions for providing mobile Internet and make your access faster and better. In the next article, we will consider offers on the market for fast Internet modems.
. . Date: October 14, 2016. Reading time 4 min.
Advertising of mobile Internet services is not always worth believing: unlimited tariffs usually cost more than those with a traffic limit, and Tele-2 has no unlimited at all. Most profitable terms Beeline and Megafon, but MTS is more expensive than the rest.
Internet in cell phone you will not surprise anyone: modern models support the high-speed 4G standard. Pages load quickly even if they contain unoptimized content for viewing on smaller displays. However, as before, you have to pay for the services. If you often use your device as a window to the world, you will certainly be interested in information about the best mobile internet. Which company - MTS, Megafon, Beeline or Tele-2 offers the best rates?
MTS
MTS is able to connect up to 5 devices to the mobile Internet. The cost of such a service is 100 rubles. The bottom line is simple: the network is configured on a smartphone and from it you can distribute traffic to other phones or tablets. Moreover, it is not necessary that these devices are next to each other: it is enough that they are connected to a telecom operator in the same home region. MTS has only 3 tariffs: Mini, Maxi and VIP. The difference between them lies in the amount of traffic and cost. But if the limit is used up, you can always buy another day or more.
When traveling in Russia, mobile Internet will cost +50 rubles. per day.
The most profitable mobile Internet for a smartphone, if you plan to use it to the maximum, is at the VIP tariff. Actually, only on it is unlimited as such possible, and then only at night.
Conclusion: MTS services will cost 1,200 per month - not cheap.
Beeline
In the “Everything” family of tariffs from Beeline, there is the possibility of connecting unlimited mobile Internet, on a postpaid basis - payment for calls and SMS after the fact. The cost of the service is 500-1800 rubles per month. However, when connecting, you need to pay 500 rubles. - this is a guaranteed amount that is returned to the client if he pays for services in good faith during the quarter cellular communication. There are no restrictions on the use of the network, regardless of the tariff.
Conclusion: Beeline allows you to use unlimited for 500 rubles. Already available!
Megaphone
Megafon also offers an All-Inclusive tariff line without traffic restrictions. To use all the possibilities, you need to activate the MegaBezimit service for the first time for free, reconnections- 100 rubles. How much you have to pay depends on the tariff.
The Internet without limiting traffic and speed is connected only to the existing tariff, and as a result it will cost the cheapest tariff plan"All inclusive S" - 570 rubles.
Conclusion: Megafon is a little more expensive, but according to the usual payment scheme without unnecessary freezing of the reserve amount.
Tele 2
When wondering which operator has the most profitable mobile Internet, you should not bypass Tele-2 either, because. company offers low prices for services. However, it cannot provide unlimited traffic - all tariffs have a limit on the amount of downloaded information. True, you can always buy more traffic, but this is not the same.
What is the most profitable?
Based on the amount, the proposal from Beeline turned out to be the most budgetary. The company offers unlimited Internet for 500 rubles. per month on the tariff "All for 500" with a postpaid payment system. But if you want to use the usual prepaid method, you can pay 70 rubles. for "All inclusive S" from Megafon.
The fastest mobile Internet in Russia is provided to its subscribers by MTS, the leader in Moscow - Tele2, according to experts from the Radio Frequency Center, subordinate to Roskomnadzor. Other operators do not agree with these data
Photo: Vladislav Shatilo / RBC
MTS is the leader among operators in terms of average mobile Internet speed in Russia. This is the conclusion reached by the experts of the Radio Frequency Center of the Central Federal District, subordinate to Roskomnadzor, said at a conference in Moscow on May 26, Deputy General Director of the center Dmitry Mitrofanov. The study was conducted according to the methodology of Roskomnadzor with measurements in 52 cities: experts recorded the speed of data transfer to the subscriber.
The average speed of mobile Internet at MTS was 6.6 Mbps, in general, it turned out to be lower in the market - 5.4 Mbps. Above the "average Russian" speed of the Internet and MegaFon - 5.6 Mbps. Third place was taken by VimpelCom (Beeline brand), whose network speed was 5.2 Mbps. At Tele2, data is transmitted at an average speed of 4.8 Mbps. The last place was taken by the Crimean operator "K-Telecom" (brand Win Mobile) with an indicator twice lower than the market average - 2 Mbps.
The radio frequency center has been measuring the quality of communication since 2015. It has improved over the year, Mitrofanov says. For example, in Moscow, the average data transfer rate doubled from 3.2 to 6.1 Mbps. This is due to the increase in the number base stations for signal transmission using LTE (4G) technology, explains the deputy general director of the center. According to Roskomnadzor, over the year the number of LTE base stations in Russia increased by 109%, to 72 thousand. MTS has the most of them - 27 thousand. MegaFon has 26 thousand such stations, VimpelCom Tele2 - almost 4 thousand subscribers
The fastest mobile Internet is received by residents of the Central Federal District, and the slowest - by the Far East, Mitrofanov said. In Moscow, experts put Tele2 in first place in terms of data transfer speed, which. It is followed by MTS and VimpelCom. Only MegaFon, which took last place, had a data transfer rate lower than the average for the capital. Mitrofanov did not disclose specific data for each of the operators in the capital.
Representatives of the operating companies differed in their assessments of the study. Only MTS agreed with the conclusions: “The company is the leader both in terms of the number of 4G base stations and in terms of coverage area - our networks fourth generation", - said the representative of the operator Dmitry Solodovnikov. At the same time, according to Solodovnikov, in Moscow “it is incorrect to compare the parameters of the MTS network with the network of a newcomer to the rating”: it has many times fewer subscribers, so the load is five to seven times lower than that of the Big Three operators.
For the first half of 2018, Megafon received the Fastest Network award at the Speedtest Awards. Let's take a look at the report...
In total, in the first half of the year, there were almost 8 million requests for speed checks in the application. Of these - almost 3 million from Megafon subscribers, a little more than 2 million - MTS, a little more than 1.5 million - Beeline, almost 1.3 million - Tele2. At the same time, many users checked the speed of the Internet more than once - with 8 million checks, less than 1.5 million devices were registered.
- The average download speed in Russia is 17.49 Mbps
- Average download speed - 7.95 Mbps
Megafon is the leader in download speed - 24.68 Mbps, as well as in download speed - 10.57 Mbps.
Also, the superiority of Megafon can be traced in two capitals:
In Moscow, Megafon's average download speed is 41.93 Mbps, MTS is in second place - 21.5 Mbps, which is almost 2 times slower. In St. Petersburg, the difference is slightly smaller: 25.74 Mbps for Megafon versus 15.45 Mbps for Tele2 and 15.43 Mbps for MTS.
The numbers are pretty serious. But there are several nuances.
Firstly, some nearest server is always chosen, which makes it possible to obtain extremely high rate speed and response time. You are unlikely to get the speed declared as a result of the measurement when downloading a file or watching a video.
Secondly, mobile operators have traffic priorities. And there is a rumor that Megafon has Speedtest as its main priority. Once again, I emphasize that this is just a rumor, but this is quite possible.
Thirdly, no matter how many times I check the speed of the mobile Internet through Speedtest, Megafon is always advertised there. Here it is right always, on all pages of the application. Before freezing, during and after. Of course, if Speedtest considers Megafon the most fast operator, then why not advertise the company's services, it's not shameful.
Checking the speed of MTS mobile Internet in the SpeedTest application
Personal opinion
Personally, I am skeptical about such tests. There are a number of reasons for this. In addition to the above, I would call “averaging indicators”. For example, my MTS never showed less than 20 Mbps, most of the measurements are more than 50 Mbps. The megaphone demonstrated from 15 to 40 Mbps. This is all from three different points of the city. I personally did not test Beeline and Tele2. In general, of the two operators specifically for me, MTS shows top scores. The same can be with other mobile operators. It is possible that "on average" Megafon is really better, but not in my case.
There are many other indicators, for example, the workload of base stations. For example, at night you can get 100 Mbps, and in the evening - 20 Mbps.
I would recommend choosing mobile operator based on the feedback of your friends and acquaintances who use the mobile Internet in your area - not far from your home, work, pastimes.
Today we cannot imagine our life without mobile communication, which is an attribute of almost every aspect of it. There are several major telecom providers that provide different kind services, and in this article we will help you figure out how to choose the most suitable among them. How to determine which mobile operator better? Especially for you, we have compiled a rating of mobile operators in Russia.
Best Mobile Operators 2018-2019
Demand mobile communications is growing every year, and there are 4 major operators that fully satisfy this demand.
- MEGAPHONE
- BEELINE
- Tele2
Each operator has both its advantages and disadvantages, which we will analyze in more detail in this article. 
The rating of mobile operators is regularly examined by Roskomnadzor, taking into account the opinions of users. The operator Yota, which occupies a significant part of the market, is not included in this rating, since it does not have its own towers and is a subsidiary of MegaFon. Yota rents towers from the leading players in the market, the coverage width suffers from this. The rating is compiled on the basis of many factors, among the most significant are the following:
- Mobile connection quality
- Mobile internet quality
- Percentage of delivered messages
- Service cost
- Network coverage level.
To assess the quality of services of a particular operator, we will use statistics.
cellular
The leader in this category is occupied by Megafon, whose communication quality tends to be absolute, having only 0.7% of failures throughout the network. The second place is occupied by MTS, slightly behind MegaFon, with 0.8% failures. A kind of anti-record holder is Beeline, having as much as 15.1% of failures. At the same time, Tele2, relatively young for Russia, has only 1.2% failures.
Mobile Internet
Regarding the speed of mobile Internet, the difference between operators is more noticeable. MegaFon is also in the lead here, providing a real speed of up to 14 Mbps. It is followed by MTS with 10.1 Mbps, followed by Tele2 with 9.4 Mbps, followed by Beeline (5 Mbps). 
In spite of high speed, MegaFon cannot boast of a good number of successful connections over IP/TCP and HTTP, giving 3% failures in the first case and 4.4% in the second. MTS has the largest share of successful connections, with 0.6% and 0.8% of failures, respectively. However, it is worth noting that the speed of the Internet for each operator varies depending on the region of coverage.
Instant messaging
Here Beeline takes the leading position, showing the result in 100% of delivered messages. Tele2 is next, having 1.2% of undelivered SMS, MegaFon did not deliver 1.7%, and MTS did not receive 2.4%.
Coverage level
In this section, we will only look at 4G coverage, as it is difficult to determine the level of coverage for conventional communication, for the reason that some operators often rent towers from others, and it is difficult to estimate this indicator. Consider the level of coverage in Moscow and the region - it is in this region that the highest density of 4G towers is. 
In terms of 4G coverage, Megafon again showed leadership. The experts explain that given operator was the first to start installing LTE towers, well ahead of its competitors. The coverage density of 4G networks at Megafon takes a share of 32.2%. The second place, according to the research, is held by MTS with 30.9%, the third place in the study was taken by the MTS operator with 30.9%, the third - "Beeline" with a result of 28.8%.
Service cost
Each operator provides a huge variety of tariffs, we will not analyze all of them, but only compare General characteristics. The cost of communication tariffs is dynamic, the average price tag in Russia for a package is 300-350 r / month. According to ComNews Research analysts, when using a small basket (lack of mobile Internet, a small number of calls and messages, focus on on-net calls), the most profitable operator became MTS. In other cases, which cover the majority of users (Internet, calls, messages), the best operator in terms of the cost of services, both according to experts and according to user reviews, is the Tele2 provider. The cost of an average package for all operators varies greatly depending on the region of service, and in the Far East, as well as the northern districts, the values are uneven. If we take an assessment of the trends in the central regions, the cost of an average package varies in this order, from the cheapest to the most expensive.