Talk:Russia/@comment-91.158.123.165-20181229170814/@comment-24682153-20181230195850

Yep. For our listing here, it's not important which SIM card can be ordered from abroad. It's much more important which SIM card can be easily obtained while staying in the country. Here the 4 major Russian providers have a big plus. This is especially true because of the limited English-speaking abilities in Russia. That's why I haven't added any of the new MVNOs so far.

Some of them are online-only. This is again inconvenient for a traveller in the country. The new two bank MVNOs of Tinkoff and Sberbank may be sufficient for a start. You can theoretically get them in the banks without having an account there. But I think no bank employee is going to help you with a phone problem in a different language in Russia. That's why we should make them visible as MVNOs sold by banks.