The Russian carrier MegaFon is now reducing the basic roaming rates for Egypt and Israel, including Palestine. The cost of both incoming calls and outgoing calls to Russia and around the host country is now 33 RUR per minute. The price of data transfer and text messaging has gone down as well, MegaFon’s press service reports.

In fact, MegaFon already launched a dramatic rate drop on December 15 on the basic roaming rates for forty-four European countries, including the European part of the CIS and Turkey. The carrier introduced a single Eurorate for all the Russian subscribers to any rate plan; under this Eurorate, calls cost 6 RUR or 16 RUR per minute, depending on the call destination. More information is available via the operator’s website.