During the holiday season, Bulgarian resorts are very popular, and those who go on business trips without 3G mobile Internet do not really want to stay. In this article I will tell you how to provide yourself with 3G Internet in Bulgaria in order to save on gluttonous prices in roaming of our operators.

What equipment to stock up?

3G mobile operators in Bulgaria work in the UMTS standard, this is the next stage in the development of mobile communications. In Ukraine, the operator TriMob works in this standard, while the only holder of a license for this connection. But the modems and routers sold by this operator are in most cases locked and by installing a SIM card from another operator we will not achieve the desired result. Therefore, we need equipment without being tied to any network.
In Bulgaria, such devices are much more expensive, as you can see on the official websites of local operators.

Explanation: using a modem we can use the Internet on a laptop, using a mobile WiFi access point, we can also use a wireless network on a tablet, PDA, phone and similar devices with the appropriate built-in Wi-Fi module

What should be done upon arrival in Bulgaria?

Buy a card of a local operator, which we will talk about. With a fairly quick search, I found two of the most popular 3G operators in Bulgaria. Both have unlimited traffic rates, but a certain number of MB are given at unlimited speed, after which the speed is reduced to 128 Kbps in order to protect the network from heavy loads. Now for tariffs and prices for the Internet.

Note from the author: at the time of writing, the exchange rate against the Bulgarian Lev (BGN) is 0.51 Euro (EUR)

GLOBUL operator

The official website is globul.bg, the whole country is covered by 2G network, more than 80% by 3G technology. In principle, a good choice, and there are representative offices for the sale of starter packages in almost every major population center. For prices:

We are only interested in tariffs without a contract, since connection on a contract basis is possible only for residents of the country.

For 14.90 Lev we get 512 MB of internet for a period of 20 days with unlimited speed, or for 28.90 1024 MB. Strange math, 0.10 Lev can be saved when using two packages of 512 MB, well, that’s right, by the way.

Operator VIVACOM

Official site vivacom.bg, almost the entire country is covered by both technologies, there are also representative offices in many settlements.

For 14.90 BGN we get 1200 MB of internet for a period of 10 days.

As you can see, everything is simple. And even if there is no free WiFi nearby, you can provide yourself with the Internet using mobile Internet, the main thing is to know the sequence of actions and have information.