Availability of several existing operators communications, competing in the quality of their services and prices for communications, makes it difficult to choose the most suitable option. But what confuses subscribers most is the ability to change operators without changing their number. However, today there is such an opportunity - thanks to the current legislation of the Russian Federation. And in this article we will tell you how to switch to MTS while maintaining your number. There is nothing complicated about this; everything will take a little more than a week.

MNP service from MTS

Ability to save your number mobile phone guaranteed by Russian laws. And operators have no choice but to religiously comply with these laws, ensuring the technical possibility of transfer. Any category of subscribers, both individuals and corporate clients. Let's see how to switch to MTS with your number and what you need for this.

In this procedure, the most important condition is a complete match of the subscriber data. That is, the ported number must be registered to the person who writes the porting application. Otherwise, it will be impossible to switch to MTS while maintaining the number. It is also necessary to check your passport data - if the contract is issued for an old passport, the data in this document must be updated by visiting the office of the current operator.

If you need to switch to MTS while keeping your number, but the contract is signed to another person, you should find the real owner and go with him to re-register. To do this, both subscribers must take their passports with them. As a rule, re-registration is carried out almost instantly, after which you can go to the MTS office to write a transfer application.

Switching to MTS while keeping your number is not so difficult. But other conditions must be taken into account:

• There should be no debt on your number - be sure to pay off the debt if you want the transfer to be as successful as possible;
• The number with which you need to switch to MTS and save it should not be blocked - neither automatic, nor judicial, nor voluntary;
• More than 60 days must have passed since the last transfer between operators - otherwise the preservation (transition) will be denied;
• The number must be serviced in the current region (in Moscow and the Moscow region) – You won’t be able to switch to MTS with a number from another region.

If your number is registered with the correct passport data, there is no debt on it, it is not blocked and is in working condition, you can safely go to MTS by writing a corresponding application.

Number porting procedure

Let's move on to implementing the practical part of our task - now we will look at how to correctly switch to MTS while maintaining the number. There are two ways to apply:

• At the service office - take your passport with you and go to the nearest office. Here you will need to fill out an application, indicating your passport details, portable number and desired tariff plan. You will be given a temporary SIM card which you will need to install in your phone on a specified date. Control over the process is carried out through received SMS messages;
• Online – if you don’t want to leave your apartment or workplace, you can use courier delivery of your SIM card and documents. To do this, you need to fill out an online application on the MTS website. Indicate the delivery address in the application and wait for the courier to arrive. He will bring a SIM card and all the documents necessary for the transfer. The further waiting procedure is the same as in the first method.

The application is considered within 8 days from the date of its submission. The transition to MTS while maintaining the number is carried out on the 9th day or on the specified date (but no later than 180 days from the date of submission of the application).

If the data reconciliation process is successful, you will receive an SMS indicating what date and time the transition will take place. Once the process is completed, the old SIM card will become inactive.

Some subtleties and clarifications

Now you know how to switch to MTS while keeping your phone number. Let's now look at some of the intricacies of this process. The first subtlety is that the SIM card issued by MTS will be connected to the tariff “ Smart mini». After the transfer is completed, the tariff will change to the one indicated in the application.

The second subtlety is that since previously the belonging of a number to a particular operator could be determined by the federal code, today this method fails. By calling a number with the prefix +7-926 you can get not to MegaFon, but to MTS. You can determine the ownership of the number on the website pentalweb.ru, indicating it in a certain form. The site belongs to the Central Database of Ported Numbers - this is its official resource, despite its simplicity appearance and obvious stereotypes.

You can also determine ownership with the command *916*phone_number# (the number is indicated in ten-digit format). The cost of the request is 2.72 rubles.

The third subtlety is that since you were able to switch to MTS while keeping your number, pay attention to the procedure for paying for communication services. Select the “MTS” item in terminals and ATMs, then feel free to enter your number, even if it belonged to Beeline or MegaFon.

If you're tired of your operator

Guys, we know very well that operators raise prices and force subscribers to connect to services that the latter do not want to use. Fortunately, now there is a great opportunity to move to another operator with your number. There are virtual operators that provide very good rates and cool benefits when porting a number. One of them is Tinkoff Mobile, which is increasingly being chosen by visitors to our site.

I will share my experience of transition from one mobile operator to another while maintaining the number. In my case - from MegaFon to MTS.

The background to the story is quite simple - I have been using MegaFon exclusively for a long time, for which I was even noted by the company - I was given a 20% discount on a fairly good tariff (5 gigabytes mobile internet, 1000 minutes of calls), which I have been using for the last few years, until I realized that 5 gigabytes of mobile Internet was clearly not enough for me.

Having studied the tariffs of MegaFon itself, I realized that there are options:
- pay a little more, but have 7 gigabytes of mobile Internet and the same 1000 minutes - but just two extra gigabytes did not inspire me;
- pay a lot more, have 10 gigabytes of mobile Internet (even better), and 2000 minutes of calls, which I need just like a goat button accordion (1000 was always enough for the eyes).

Prices for Internet packages are now such that all the options from the series “this tariff + this package” a priori turned out to be uninteresting.

Oh yes, I have a discount, I remembered, and went to seek justice in subscriber service. To the question: “Is it possible to keep the discount when switching to another tariff”? They answered me: “no”. Well, okay. After feeling a little sad (I was still used to MegaFon, and in general I was always happy with it - but that’s not the problem, the new tariffs are not convenient for me anyway), I went to “look deeper”, and quite quickly found suitable tariff at MTS. Yes, less minutes (400 and another 400 in the MTS Connect application), but it also costs less, and most importantly - 10 gigabytes of mobile Internet and a whole night unlimited, which will come in very handy - for peace of mind, I periodically, and to be honest, once every couple of days, “back up” the data of all my sites, including this one, and, as I recently discovered with interest, such a backup “weighs” about 10 gigabytes. Well, no one can cancel the need to make backups when I’m out of town. This overnight unlimited made me so happy that I decided to take a risk, despite the fact that only recently.

I also remembered that I have a rather nice number in MegaFon, which I hardly use, and I realized that its time had come - only now, I need to take advantage of the recently appeared service and go to MTS with my number.

Well, on March 30, 2016, I come to the MTS salon, where they tell me that the application must be submitted in the same region in which the ported number was registered(and that’s what happened to me, Moscow and the region are considered one region, if that’s the case), and they send it to MegaFon - check passport details. I'm going to check. Don't underestimate this point. If the data you specified in the application and the data available to the operator do not agree, the application to port the number will be rejected. So I thought that just a year and a half ago I bought a MegaFon number, of course, showing my passport. And, since nothing has changed with the passport during this time, everything should be “ok”. But no, in the MegaFon salon a polite young man, after checking my data, made some amendments and, as a matter of form, persuaded me to stay. That's where we parted ways. I didn’t go back to MTS, there was a line there and I decided to go the next day. And at home I discovered with interest that the entire procedure can be completed remotely on the MTS website and started this process.

03/31/2016 - call from MTS, we agree that a new SIM card will be delivered to me by courier (free of charge) on Tuesday, 04/05/2016.

04/05/2016 - the courier arrived (on time), brought me an MTS SIM card, a contract, as well as a ready-made and completed application to port the number, which I signed in his presence and he took it with him.

I immediately inserted the SIM card into the phone. Until the transfer, it has a “temporary” number, but in general, you can fully use the services. The number porting service costs 100 rubles and is charged directly from the new SIM card, for some reason this is not written anywhere (of course, maybe I missed it), I was only verbally warned that I needed to deposit 100 rubles on this number. Just in case, I “threw” the score at 150 and began to wait for further developments.

04/08/2016 - both SIM cards, old and new, received a message from MTS saying “welcome” and “If there are no debts, the number will be transferred to MTS on 04/16/2016 at 13:00.” That is, my application was processed and the same eight days were given that operators are given to port the number.

A little about money. Money from the old SIM card to the new one is not transferred, and, if anything, you can get them at the office of the old operator by writing a statement (this is in theory, I have never encountered this).

And also, a little earlier, when I had the idea of ​​switching to Tele 2 (which I refused due to the fact that their coverage in the Moscow region was somehow “not ice”, and I didn’t want to have a phone that didn’t work in the country ). So, at the Tele 2 office they told me “in confidence” that MegaFon likes to “paint a debt” to leaving subscribers. Considering that during the entire time I used MegaFon, this operator behaved exclusively honestly and conscientiously, I didn’t really believe it, but the words remained in the subcortex, so I kept an eye on the balance, and soon realized where these rumors came from.

MegaFon has a feature that used to be called “credit of trust,” but can now be found on a website called “pay when it’s convenient.” The idea is that based on your expenses, you are given a certain amount. Previously, this amount could have gone into the red (which is logical), and the phone continued to work. However, some time ago everything changed, and if, for example, your “credit of trust” is 300 rubles, then they are added to the total account. That is, we check the balance - we see 400 rubles. 100 are yours, the remaining 300 are MegaFon. If we see 200, then in fact you have -100. I don’t know what the deep meaning of this system is, apparently some kind of machinations of marketers (although if you think about it, it’s clear what). This has always annoyed me, fortunately, to MegaFon’s credit, you can turn it off at any time.

Just recently changed mobile operator and keeping your number active in another television system was something out of the realm of fantasy. Now anyone can transfer their telephone number, for example from MTS to Beeline. In this article you will find a detailed algorithm of actions on how to transfer to MTS with your number, and also learn about the rules of the transfer system.

Terms of MNP service from MTS

According to the laws of the Russian Federation, any citizen of the country has the right to change the mobile operator and then retain the numerical combination of his phone. Moreover, the procedure is available to both individuals and legal entities, as well as corporate subscribers.

However, to switch to MTS while maintaining your number, you must adhere to the following rules:

• the most important condition for the transfer is the complete identity of passport and subscriber data. In other words, the applicant must be the real owner of the SIM card. Otherwise, manipulation will be impossible;
• if the applicant’s passport was updated for some reason (due to loss, change of surname, etc.), the information on mobile account. This procedure can be performed at the nearest office of the cellular provider;
• If you plan to transfer a number that is not your own, you will need to re-issue the SIM card. To do this, you need to come to the office center of the cellular operator together with the legal owner and passports and declare your desire to change the owner. After a simple procedure, the SIM card will be reissued to the new person, and he will be able to perform all further manipulations with it independently;
• Any subscriber can switch to MTS with his number if there is no debt on his previous cellular account;
• also, the SIM card cannot be blocked in any form: neither judicially nor voluntarily;
• time period of transitions between by different operators cannot be less than 2 months. That is, if the client has already performed this procedure over the last 60 calendar days, a repeat procedure will be temporarily unavailable;
• You can switch from Beeline to MTS only in your home region. That is, if the user lives in the Moscow region and his SIM card is registered there, new registration V mobile network will be carried out only at the place of residence. Interregional transfer is not possible.

If the subscriber meets the above rules, you can freely proceed with the transfer digital series. So, step-by-step algorithm The actions here are as follows:

1. You must come to the office of the mobile operator MTS with all the necessary documents (passport, contract, power of attorney), and you also need to have an old SIM card with you.
2. Next, you will need to write an application to connect to the new mobile network while maintaining the old digital number. In the form you need to indicate your passport details, valid SIM card details, contact information and the reason for the transition (can be anything).
3. Then you need to pay a monthly fee of 200 rubles, 100 of which will be used to pay for the service provided, and 100 will be deposited into the subscriber’s mobile account. You can spend funds at your own discretion.
4. Since transferring the number of another mobile operator to an MTS SIM card will take some time, the client is issued a temporary SIM card with a different phone number series. The subscriber also has the right to use an old SIM card with a TP running on it until it is completely transferred to MTS.
5. The subscriber will be informed about the change of mobile operator via SMS message. As a rule, the SMS arrives a day before the card appears at the cellular provider’s office.
6. As soon as you are informed that your card is ready, your old number series will begin to work on it automatically, and the former card from another cellular provider will be considered invalid.

By the way, you can transfer your number to MTS online by ordering a card via courier delivery. To do this, you need to go to the official page of the mobile operator and fill out the appropriate application. To fill out the form, you must enter your personal data and the address where the SIM card will be delivered. You will also be informed about delivery times via SMS.

Many subscribers are interested in the question of how long they will have to wait for a SIM card replacement. The application itself is considered 7-8 days from the moment it is written and submitted. If all the documentation is in order and the form is filled out correctly, already on the 9th day the client receives a new card with the old digital combination retained.

Immediately after connecting to the MTS cellular provider, the Smart Mini tariff plan will be valid on the card. Subsequently, the subscriber can either retain the current tariff on the card or switch to another one.

Even after receiving a SIM card, it is better to double-check the information about which provider your number belongs to, since any system can fail. To determine which provider owns a particular phone number series, go to the page pentalweb.ru. Here you need to register numeric value in a certain column and press the “Check” button. As you can see, everything is quite simple and fast.

If you do not have free access to web networks, you can also check by sending a system request in the following format: * 916 * mobile number# . Let’s immediately make a reservation that the request is not free; for each send, 2.75 rubles are withdrawn from the subscriber’s account. However, you must admit that it is not that expensive, unless, of course, you plan to check it daily.

It is important not to forget to press the correct keys when paying for communication services at terminals and ATMs. For example, a subscriber who is accustomed to paying for another cellular communication, maybe even after changing the supplier they can transfer money, for example, instead of MTS to Beeline. You need to carefully monitor this, since it will be problematic to return funds back to your account later.

If you have any questions about porting your number, you can always call the mobile operator’s technical support at 88002508250 or contact the MTS telesystem salon for detailed explanations.

How to switch to Yota from MTS and stand on a par with advanced users mobile communications new generation? At first, the operation seems difficult, but in our article we will dispel all your doubts and prove that everything is quite simple and safe.

Why might a transition be needed?

The reasons are the most banal - I want it to get better, namely:

1. Not satisfied with the cost of tariffs of the old operator;
2. Poor connection quality and problems with the Internet;
3. Overall, the provider has become unattractive and costly.

Preparing for the transition

It’s easy to switch to Yota from MTS, you just need to prepare:

1. Find out who the old SIM card is registered to. If it's for you, then it's just great - less hassle. If not, then you will need to come to the MTS office with this person and your passports and renew the contract in your name. This will take approximately 24 hours. It’s bad if your friend or relative cannot be present in person. In this case, you can say goodbye to the idea of ​​switching to Iota and keeping your number. Or, if you are a fan of complications, you can bother with drawing up a power of attorney for re-registration.
2. If your other passport was involved in the execution of the old contract, then the transfer, alas, will not take place either. That is why you should promptly update all your data in all instances.

How to transfer with your number?

Fortunately, mobile slavery has long been abolished, and we can now freely change providers without changing our usual number. This is even stated in the thematic law. The situation is the same with this operator, i.e. you can also switch to Yota from MTS, but you will still have to spend some time on keeping your favorite number with you.

Make sure your SIM card is working:

1. On your account positive balance;
2. Sim is not blocked.

We bring to your attention the following instructions, how to switch from MTS to Yota with your number:

• Go to the official website of the provider and look at the map of the location of sales offices where the MNP service is provided (this is important);
• Take your passport with you;
• In the office, you inform the consultant of your intention and draw up an application;

• You will receive a temporary SIM card, which will later become permanent;
• Active actions will be carried out without your direct participation. You will learn about main events and technical manipulations from messages from the operator. In one of them you will finally see the good news that the transition to a new operator with your number has been completed;
• On the full transition date, which will be sent to you via SMS, remove the old SIM card, insert a new one and check the availability of the network;
• If within a few hours you notice failures or malfunctions in some functions, contact the provider’s support;

• Install mobile app Yota to adjust the tariff and always have an online chat at hand to communicate with a consultant.

How much does a call from MTS to Yota cost?

Many people are interested in how much a call from MTS to Yota costs. And this question is not asked in vain, since the cost of a call to another operator’s number can be prohibitively high. In fact, it all just depends on tariff plan which is used. Thus, the price of calls from MTS to Yota varies from 1.6 rubles to 2.5 rubles per minute.

Despite the fact that there are tariffs with subscription fee or without it. U of this operator everything is more transparent and understandable, so users prefer to switch from other operators to Yota, because the price is really pleasant for our wallet.

Many Russians have the desire to change their mobile operator. At the same time, it is natural to want to preserve your phone number, which all friends, partners, colleagues know. Despite the fact that many Beeline subscribers are satisfied with the quality of services, there are those who want to change the operator and switch from Beeline to MTS. Possible reasons- a desire to save money on communications, especially if most of your friends use MTS, insufficient coverage in the area (at the dacha, in the village) or poor roaming conditions.

So, to switch from Beeline to MTS while keeping the number, there are 2 options

• From December 1, 2013, you can port your number using the MNP service. On this day, the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation on the introduction of the “number portability” (MNP) service in Russia came into force and you can now go through the procedure of moving from Beeline to MTS. By October 2014, more than a million Russians had already used this method! The service costs 100 rubles and will take no more than 8 days, while your phone will be available all the time, with the exception of a technical 30-minute gap. General transfer instructions. In the case of switching from MTS to Beeline for individuals, you should proceed as follows:
  • Check that there are no debts on your Beeline account that the SIM card is issued to you, and your passport details have not changed
  • Then you need to contact MTS so that they submit a transfer request (you don’t need to go to Beeline). This can be done at any MTS branch for individuals. You must have your passport and 100 rubles with you to pay for the service.
  • The whole process will take about 15-20 minutes: you fill out the application, choose new tariff and pay for the transition. Based on the results, you will receive a new SIM card from MTS and a designated transition date, when it will be enough to change the old Beeline SIM card to the new MTS in your phone.
  • If they refuse to tell you the exact transition date- demand it or call hotline MTS for MNP issues 8 800 250 8 250!

  However, MNP has a number of limitations:

  • It will be possible to change operators no more often than once every six months
  • You can change the operator only within your region

If this method does not suit you, then you can do the following:

• Buy a temporary MTS SIM card
• On Beeline, set up unconditional forwarding to this number from MTS (this is done either through the phone menu or on the Beeline website)
• Attention! Re-addressing is paid and is charged as an outgoing call from your old Beeline number to new number MTS (therefore, on Beeline it is better to change the tariff to one where it is cheaper to call MTS). Besides, Beeline unlike other operators big three beret additional fee for the very fact of redirection.
• This way, you will remain accessible using your old number, and you will make outgoing calls from your MTS SIM card. At the same time, you can simply put the Beeline SIM card on the shelf - forwarding will work in any case.