new roaming rates for german E-Plus based prepaid tariffs
 

Starting from July 1st E-Plus is lowering the roaming rates for their prepaid customers and also simplify the tariff zones.

Now there will be only EU and ROW, rates as below:

EU:
outgoing calls: 28ct/min (rounded by second after the first 30 sec)
incoming calls: 8ct/min (rounded by second)
SMS: 9ct
data: 49ct/MB (rounded by 1kb)

Rest of World:
outgoing calls: 99ct/min (rounded by minute)
incoming calls: 99ct/min (rounded by minute)
SMS: 19ct
data: 99ct/MB (rounded by 10kb)

so far this tariff will be valid for the following brands: BASE, Ay Yildiz, simyo, Blau, Aldi Talk, wir Mobil, MTV Mobile.

updated list for all brands where the new roaming rates will be valid:

blau.de
NettoKom
ALDI TALK
blauworld
Netto
blauworld
Nettokom World
Polonia
simVoice
Mobilka
ORTEL
The Phone House
MTV Prepaid
Simyo Prepaid
Conrad Prepaid
Jamba
Schwarzfunk
Kandy
Youni
BVB Fan Fon
HSE24
WirMobil Prepaid
Ay Yildiz Prepaid
E-Plus Prepaid
BASE Prepaid
Vybemobile
ADAC Prepaid
NORMA mobil

another pro about this: Switzerland and Croatia are both put in the EU zone even though no EU members...

Croatia will be an EU member from 1st July 2013.

Non-EEA countries and territories that are surrounded by or have a close connection with EEA countries (e.g. Switzerland, Andorra, Channel Islands) are treated by many UK networks as EU. It doesn't surprise me that E-Plus is doing this as well.

all other german providers happily put switzerland in the world zone and suck their customers blood... thats why i noted it here ;)

I'd be surprised if Regulation (EU) No 531/2012 wouldn't apply to small parts of the Swiss networks' coverage area. For example, are the Swiss networks responsible for providing mobile coverage in Büsingen (Germany) and Campione d'Italia? The latter is part of the Ticino +41 91 area code despite being in Italy. Given that the home networks can't distinguish between roaming in Switzerland and these small parts of the European Union, I imagine they would have to apply the price caps to all roaming on Swiss networks.

in Büsingen you can get all 4 german networks, i guess in campione that would be topographically more challanging ;)

In Campione, and part of Ticino, you can receive the Italian carriers (through overspill...)

In both Büsingen and Campione d'Italia, it depends on whether the Swiss networks actually have transmitters there, i.e. on EU territory. If they have, then roaming there would probably be subject to Regulation (EU) No 531/2012.

even if - i doubt that any billing system of a carrier could cope with that...

Exactly. That's why they would have to treat all roaming on Swiss networks as subject to the price caps.

I guess both Campione and Büsingen are so small, that they can be covered by antennas physically in Switzerland. As such, if you use these networks, you´re still officially roaming, and tariff-wise/legally you´re in Switzerland, not Italy respectively Germany.

Just as if you´re roaming in a foreign network, just because you´re close to the border. That´s the user´s own fault.

I seem to remember that there was a lawsuit ~10 years ago where a technicaly unsavvy lady visited Rügen/Germany, and her phone logged into a Polish network. She then faced huge roaming-charges, refused to pay and sued. The court declared the charges void, as the pricelist mentioned "calls from Germany" which applied in her case. However, checking today's pricelists, most still mention "prices from Germany" and not "calls while in the German network".

This is the question. If Swiss transmitters are physically on Italian or German territory, then the price caps should apply when using those transmitters. Given that it would be hard for a home network to distinguish between roaming on these transmitters and transmitters in Switzerland, they would have to apply the price caps to roaming on Swiss networks anywhere.