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MATHA531 · 04-07-2006, 10:22

It really comes down to a variety of factors that might be different for everybody admitedly...

I purchased my vodafone.de for relatively little money before united mobile and since I pop through Germany for a few days every half year, have decided despite united mobile to keep it active (its validity is 9 months with a top up)..although it is somewhat more expensive in my case to receive forwarded calls on a German (or most other European networks) than on united mobile, I still prefer using the local network as being more reliable (although I must say my connections to Liechtenstein recently via my ld carrier on call forwarding have been very clear and very reliable; the question of course remains how long will the ld carrier keep 10?/minute USA to Liechtenstein or cbw keep 14?/minute via pin2dest..)

Having said all that, I now use bizon calling card for calls to the USA...2?/minute Germany to USA and they give you local German numbers in several cities so in reality what I pay is the local German cost on whatever plan the vodafone de is on...that meets my needs...may not meet other needs.

The other advantage to me of vodafone and it was very important was the ability to get the English voice prompts which I have and the fact that if it is impo0rtant enough to keep the number I can top up with vodafone vouchers in other countries.

I also added vodafone passport (which is called something else in German) for free although since I have other alternatives I don't particularly use it all that much except to use up some of the top ups that I have paid for anyway.

So for me, the most important thing was the ability to get English language prompts; something I would assume is not available on most of the other German networks even though it might be somewhat cheaper.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	04-07-2006, 10:22 It really comes down to a variety of factors that might be different for everybody admitedly... I purchased my vodafone.de for relatively little money before united mobile and since I pop through Germany for a few days every half year, have decided despite united mobile to keep it active (its validity is 9 months with a top up)..although it is somewhat more expensive in my case to receive forwarded calls on a German (or most other European networks) than on united mobile, I still prefer using the local network as being more reliable (although I must say my connections to Liechtenstein recently via my ld carrier on call forwarding have been very clear and very reliable; the question of course remains how long will the ld carrier keep 10?/minute USA to Liechtenstein or cbw keep 14?/minute via pin2dest..) Having said all that, I now use bizon calling card for calls to the USA...2?/minute Germany to USA and they give you local German numbers in several cities so in reality what I pay is the local German cost on whatever plan the vodafone de is on...that meets my needs...may not meet other needs. The other advantage to me of vodafone and it was very important was the ability to get the English voice prompts which I have and the fact that if it is impo0rtant enough to keep the number I can top up with vodafone vouchers in other countries. I also added vodafone passport (which is called something else in German) for free although since I have other alternatives I don't particularly use it all that much except to use up some of the top ups that I have paid for anyway. So for me, the most important thing was the ability to get English language prompts; something I would assume is not available on most of the other German networks even though it might be somewhat cheaper.