What services with a monthly fee are currently connected to your SIM card? Does the tariff itself imply such a fee? This question is of interest to every subscriber of any cellular network. There are several ways to find out the answer to it.
Instructions
Step 1
Try to find out the balance, and then during the day do not use any paid services (calls, messages, the Internet) on the phone at all. On prepaid tariffs, the subscription fee for services, if any, is most often written off in equal shares every day. The next day, check the balance again - has it changed? If yes, there is a subscription fee for any set of services. Multiply the difference between yesterday's and today's balance by 30, and you will find out how much you have to pay for these services per month.
Step 2
Please note that some operators charge a subscription fee for a number of services immediately once a month, even with a prepaid tariff. Some third-party content providers charge subscriptions for their services every few days.
Step 3
Call your carrier's support team. Ask which services with a monthly fee you are subscribed to, and whether the tariff itself implies a monthly fee. If necessary, cancel some of these services or change the tariff.
Step 4
If a subscription fee is charged for unlimited Internet, or unlimited calls within the network or to your favorite numbers, or unlimited sending MMS messages, the cost of the service is low, and you actively use it, it is unreasonable to refuse it. Without such a service, you will probably spend much more money than with it (you can even try to calculate how much more).
Step 5
For some operators, you can find out the tariff and the list of connected services through the SIM-menu or your personal account on the website. It remains to look at the parameters of the tariff and the cost of each of the services on the site or ask a consultant for them.
Step 6
If an unusually large amount is debited from your phone every few days, although you have not called anywhere or sent messages, you may be subscribed to the service of a third-party content provider. Unknowingly, children or relatives could sign you, buying advertising on a dubious site and not bothering to first familiarize yourself with its rules. It could also be done on purpose by strangers to whom you once gave the phone to "urgently call for a couple of minutes."
Step 7
Call the operator's support service and ask the consultant to tell you in favor of which particular content provider the amount was debited. If the consultant does not give you the phone number of the content provider, try to find it yourself by name using search engines. Call your content provider's consultant and ask them to turn off all subscriptions. Sometimes it is necessary to do it yourself by sending a message to a special number with the command "STOP" or similar.
Step 8
If the subscription has not ended, call the operator's support service again and ask him to turn on the service of blocking payments in favor of content providers. Different operators call it differently. Please note that if you do this, you may lose the ability to use mobile transfer.
Step 9
Some operators impose paid services by connecting them in advance immediately upon purchasing a SIM card. This can be, for example, voice mail or replacing beeps with melodies. The subscription fee for such an intrusive service does not begin to be debited immediately, but after a period usually equal to two weeks. If you find yourself subscribed to such a service, be sure to unsubscribe by asking a consultant to turn it off or tell you how to do it.
