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Forgot to mention, almost all German prepaids have extortionate international call prices (usually all destinations 2? per minute), with no evident desire on the part of the operators to lower the rate for competitive advantage. The exceptions are Ay Yildiz (but only to Turkey, otherwise 2? as usual) and Blau World (cheap to a lot of poor countries and, for example, Poland and Japan, but 99 cents to France, Britain, the US, etc.) This is compared to a typical international call price of 35-60 cents elsewhere in Europe. I was expecting some operators might have changed this for the World Cup, but no. Vodafone are marketing a prepaid offer to visiting football fans (Moto phone plus 5? credit for 33?, relatively cheap for their stores but not compared to elsewhere), but that means two and a half minutes of calling home. Simply using roaming would be half as expensive for most European users.