MegaFon Voluntary Number Blocking

2021: Launch of "Voluntary Number Locking" service

On October 15, 2015, MegaFon offered a special service for employees using the shift method - for the first time, subscribers leaving for shifts to remote regions will be able to "freeze" communication services for a period of up to 180 days for free and save their number.

This proposal will be relevant for workers in the oil and gas, forestry, transport, construction industries, as well as for seafarers.

MegaFon was the first in the telecom market to provide watchdogs with such mobile vacations. When developing the offer, we focused on the requests and wishes of our subscribers, who need to leave for a long time and for a working shift to refuse the services of their operator. We offered to suspend the service and payment of communication services, while maintaining our number. According to our estimates, the average savings for a subscriber for six months will be more than 2 thousand rubles, "said MegaFon Commercial Director Vlad Wolfson.

According to Rosstat, before the pandemic, officially almost 1.5 million Russians worked on a watch basis, leaving for another region for an average of 2-4 weeks. In 2021, the shift period increased: in the whole country, more than 60% of workers go on watch for 2-2.5 months, and every sixth continues to work away from home for 3-5 months. Such conclusions were reached by MegaFon specialists, having analyzed with the help of Big Data tools impersonal data on the movement of shift subscribers in Russia.

Most often, residents of the country go to the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): the village of Talakan is a popular place of work among shift workers in the Urals, Siberia, the Republic of Bashkortostan and even the Krasnodar Territory. Also in the top is the town of Moore-Belokamenka, Murmansk Region, the villages of Priobsky (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Ugra) and Sabbeta (Yamal), the Urengoy oil and gas condensate field, as well as the village of Nyuchakan in the Irkutsk region.

To connect the free "Voluntary Number Locking" service, it is sufficient to contact MegaFon's salon and set any blocking period within six months. You can use the service an unlimited number of times. You can unlock the number at any time - independently in MegaFon's application or by toll-free number 0500.