The Russians began to talk less on the mobile phone.

KommentariiMobilny antikrizis11.03.2009Kak Russian cellular operators to cope with the economic downturn? Russian customers during the crisis have been less use of cellular communications, writes Vedomosti. Because of the demand reduction net profit of "Sonic Duo", which operates under the brand name "MegaFon-Moscow", fell in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 13.4 percent.
Basically subscribers MegaFon-Moscow "abandon such costly services such as roaming and international communications. The duration of conventional negotiations until reduced by only a few minutes a month.
At the same time, MTS subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2008, referred to 2.3 per cent more than in the third. They began to move to cheaper fares, but the operator has reduced the average per minute from 1.3 to 1.18 rubles.
Operators have begun to respond to reduced demand in the winter of 2009. They have raised prices for roaming, as well as the revised cost of calls on some of the normal tariff. It also became an opportunity to SMS and calls for "your favorite room."
Also, the MTS, Megafon and Beeline has already launched a crisis rates, which dramatically reduces the cost of calls after a few minutes spent on us. MegaFon-Moscow also launched a fare "Just to talk" enables subscribers connected to it to talk with each other for five cents per minute.