When going abroad, every person strives to keep in touch with their loved ones and friends who remain in Russia. However, sometimes it is difficult to do this, because for this it is necessary to activate roaming, which costs a tidy sum for a person. For example, the Megafon company offers roaming abroad at the most favorable rates(subject to activation of special options), however, these tariffs are also very high for average Russians. That’s why people are looking for ways to save on international communications, and instead of classic roaming, they use other options for this, such as video calling via Skype, purchasing local cards mobile operators, as well as purchasing tourist SIM cards.
Skype communication: advantages and disadvantages
The Internet opens up unlimited opportunities for people to communicate and today in almost any foreign country there are many free access points to Wi-Fi networks, where you can use the Internet to communicate with family and even make a video call on Skype.
Advantages this method obvious: no fee and the opportunity not only to hear, but also to see loved one. However, there are many more disadvantages of such a connection:
- inability to receive incoming calls;
- binding to a specific location;
- low internet speed due to excessive network congestion, which sometimes makes it impossible to establish a connection at all
SIM cards from local operators
The second way to save on international calls is to buy a SIM card from a local mobile operator. Prices for international communications in this case will be quite low, but using them is associated with a number of inconveniences. Firstly, it’s difficult to understand the SIM card menu, because it’s on foreign language. Secondly, it is impossible to receive incoming calls, since the number of such a SIM card can only be communicated to the closest people. And thirdly, the quality of cellular communications from local cellular operators leaves much to be desired (in some regions it is completely absent), so it is unlikely that you will be able to fully communicate in this way.
Tourist SIM card: an indispensable traveler's assistant
Not long ago, tourist SIM cards appeared on the domestic market, which immediately gained popularity among people who regularly travel abroad. The reason for its popularity is simple - the opportunity to use cheap international cellular communications and mobile internet anywhere in the world.
This SIM card also has a number of other advantages, such as the ability to save a Russian number, unlimited time actions and stable communications in more than 200 countries.
International telephone communications For many decades, it has provided us with a unique opportunity to communicate with family, friends, and business partners located outside the country. Services in this market segment are provided by almost all fixed-line and mobile communications, the tariff for long-distance calls depends on the operator providing the service, the country you are calling to and the number to which the call is made - mobile or landline. Unified recommendations “how to call cheaper” does not exist due to frequent changes in tariffs, all kinds of “promotions and offers”, it is advisable to ask this question directly to the operators, since communication with call centers is free, you can also find out whether you have access to international communications, some operators have the service by default inactive.
How to call abroad from a landline phone.
If you want to call abroad from a landline phone, it is worth considering that international telephone communications in different countries have significant differences in terms of dialing numbers, this is due to the fact that at one time the international telephone communications of the USSR were subordinate to the Ministry of Communications, and functioned exclusively through the central node in Moscow. There were uniform recruitment rules that remained unchanged for Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, So, you can call abroad from the listed countries using the following combination:
8 - 10 - country code - settlement— subscriber number.
After the collapse of the Union and the declaration of independence by the republics, the question arose of developing national standards and integrating them into the international system, in connection with this, fixed-line operators Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, dialing order has been changed telephone numbers, and international calls from these countries are carried out in the following sequence:
0 - 0 - country code - locality - subscriber number.
How to call from a mobile abroad.
If you call abroad from mobile to mobile it is not possible special problems, cellular tied to international standards, you will get through by dialing the same combination both in Russia and in Zimbabwe, then when you call to landline phone difficulties are possible. Main mistake it may be that the subscriber could provide you with a phone number based on the rules of long-distance communication of the country of his location, and as mentioned above, they have significant differences, for example. Your friend in Germany may well dictate a phone number in which the first digit will be “ 0 ", and the same number received from a friend from Belarus will begin with the number " 8 "and both will be right, just like " 0 " And " 8 "- this is an intercity connection, only from different countries. Solving such a problem is not particularly difficult if we know
