Mobile SIM deals in Russia
Just to update for travellers to Russia this year. A combination of a fall in the FX value of the ruble plus increasing access due to technological advances has deals that European users will consider mind-blowingly cheap.
MEGAFON
Above is the mobile internet tariffs (paid monthly in advance) for mobile internet access for company Megafon (these days its often 4G in the cities and 3G in the countryside).
The "Internet L" package (for example) includes a whopping 36GB of internet per month, for 890 rubles (about 9 GBP). When you are used to the piddly 1 or 2 GB a month you get in the UK, being able to get nationwide 36 GB a month for less than a tenner a month puts the mobile phone ripoff in the UK into perspective.
There are 3 nationwide networks in Russia, Beeline, MTS and Megafon (listed above)
BEELINE
MTS
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