AntiMalware•October 2, 2026•🇷🇺Translated from Russian

Beeline Offers One Month Free Access to Six Services for Prepaid Customers

Beeline has announced a limited-time promotion giving prepaid home users the opportunity to test up to six digital services free of charge for 30 days.

The campaign coincides with the operator’s second annual Cellular Independence Day and runs from October 2 to October 9. After the trial period, all selected services deactivate automatically.

Participants may choose any combination of the following services:

  • Virtual Assistant PRO — handles incoming calls, records and transcribes conversations, blocks spam, and terminates calls when fraud is detected.
  • Beeline Unlimited 30 Days — provides mobile internet without data caps that can be shared with other numbers on the same tariff.
  • Sharing PRO — allows internet tethering to other devices without speed throttling caused by the sharing feature itself.
  • My Network Name — replaces the operator name displayed on the smartphone screen with a custom label.
  • Beeline Cloud — offers 250 GB of storage for files with automatic backup of photos and videos.
  • Beeline Books — grants access to a catalog of more than 650,000 electronic and audiobooks.

The free period for each service begins individually upon activation. Customers already subscribed to a paid version of any listed service cannot activate the promotional free trial for that same service. The unlimited data option is not available in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Norilsk.

Users already paying for four or more of the services will instead receive 300 bonus rubles for communication. All other customers can evaluate the services during the trial month and decide whether to keep them.

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