[snaimon]

All:

the NEW page link above is VERY confusing. Right now, 2200 EST Jan 20, the main text tells me for instance 19 e-cents per SMS. The page CLEARLY says starting Feb 1. BUT.... blinking on the left in the middle it says ORDER NOW and SMS 15 e-cents.
Can this be serious?

Andy:

Here SMS is 19 e-cents v 9 with GT-SIM
Calls to German land lines 29 e-cents v 26 GT-SIM [blinking box say 25 e-cents!?]
Other calls to foreign destinations are stated @ 39 e-cents v 26-38 e-cents with GT-SIM

There are indeed similarities but there are differences, too.

At this stage I fully agree with the advice on teltarif about mobile phones --

1. if you DO bite on an offer, may sure you don't sink in too much and
2. keep to short term arrangements

Conditions are changing so fast it seems.... for the German, some other European (FR, CH recenbtly) and the international provider markets.

Consider those foolish folks who shelled out 60 Euros for Aldi starter kits on Ebay.de because they could not wait 3 weeks until the product came back on the market at 19.95! Of course they did not KNOW it would come back.

I (4 or us and all adults) won't be travelling until summer. I have 2 T-MO D1 cards, one with 0 balance and I may either sell that, just let it expire or renew it. It is a Viktor Vox thing and I am not sure if they will come after me to return the SIM card. I know that applies for POST PAID.

The best deal on the German market --- yes, we are OT here -- seems to be the Aldi product with 5 e-cents internal. BUT there are rumored to be other offers in the works. T-MO is matching the 5 e-cent rate, but there is an END DATE on that program -- actually, there was an earlier end date and it was revised to later. I would have to buy new cards as VV won't let me switch to Xtra Click&Go without paying an exhorbitant fee.

Stan