T-mo De Coming Out With New Prepaid Service

[snaimon]

According to various sources including the German T-MO site, they will be offering a new prepaid tarif starting in early October. 49 cents to other mobiles, 29 to D1 mobiles and landlines. If you add 30 Euros, you will have 9 cents a minute to landlines and other D1 phones for a month. All 24/7/365.

PERSONALLY I am not too impressed. Unless most of your calling is to D1 or landlines phones, you might be better off with the discounters' tarifs of 16 or 15 cents to any network 24/7/365.

They also are announcing other changes to post paid rates.

Stan

[Effendi]

It doesn't make any sense, they already have Xtra Click&Go which has 5 cent/min to Tmo+landline and 25 to other mobiles with 92 days of validity... the new tariff seems to be much worse... and Xtra Click&Go is expiring in October...

[Triband81]

Seems quite pointless to me. They're just following the same strategy as Vodafone did almost a year ago. They also introduced the 29 cent plan under the name of CallYa club.

http://www.vodafone.de/privat/callya/82421.html

[Przemolog]

Originally Posted by Effendi

It doesn't make any sense, they already have Xtra Click&Go which has 5 cent/min to Tmo+landline and 25 to other mobiles with 92 days of validity... the new tariff seems to be much worse... and Xtra Click&Go is expiring in October...

And 1 guess that international calls are something around 2 EUR/min as usual :P?

I don't want to compare with other German prepaids, but be aware (if you are not yet ) of the following.
Whatever we could say bad about GT-sim, they charge calls originating in Germany 38 cents/min to mobiles and 26 cents/min to landlines (worldwide destinations, not only German ones!). If we neglect debiting, GT-sim is worse than the announced T-Mo tariff only in case of calls to D1. No comment :P

[snaimon]

Quite a lot of chatter on the German sites about this being a typical T-MO move as market leader. Hype the BIG drop in rates and then of course the offer is mediocre at best. Recall Vodafone offered a similar scheme of low rates for one month if you added 30 Euros.

XtraClick&Go is to renamed XtraClick and starting 1 Nov the low introductory rates will be void and rates will increase. Don't recall the amounts, but I think something like 25 cents internal and 39 external.

XtraNonstop is also to be stopped.

One of the posters said "ridiculous."

[snaimon]

Originally Posted by snaimon

XtraClick&Go is to renamed XtraClick and starting 1 Nov the low introductory rates will be void and rates will increase. Don't recall the amounts, but I think something like 25 cents internal and 39 external.

D1 to D1 sms 15 instead of 5 cents
D1 to D1 calls 15 cents instead of 5 cents
all other calls 30 cents instead of 25 cents

[Triband81]

Originally Posted by snaimon

D1 to D1 sms 15 instead of 5 cents
D1 to D1 calls 15 cents instead of 5 cents
all other calls 30 cents instead of 25 cents

15 cents is ok as a number but certainly a bit much if you consider how much cheaper Aldi Talk is.