Germany's Mvno List Grows

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Originally Posted by snaimon

Lidl is the main rival to Aldi in Germany. According to teltarif, Lidl has been contemplating a low-price mobile offering for some time. The hope was for 9.9 e-cents per minute. This is more speculation than cold, hard facts in my opinion. Time will tell.

OT:

It is somewhat amazing to me, a relative outsider, that in the last 7 - 12 months there has been such a change in the German prepaid mobile market. TRUE, Europe has free incoming, but rates in Germany are reported to be or have been relatively stable and relatively high for YEARS.... until Spring this year (2005).

Stan

Stan,

Your observations are very solid. What amazes me is that most of these MVNOs are on E-Plus. This means that future MVNOs could also choose to move to O2 since that is the only other smaller network with less than 20 million customers and one that hasn't even reached capacity yet.

As for LIDL joining the MVNO club, there hasn't been a solid announcement just yet but I would expect them to follow in the next couple weeks. The price shakeup was quite overdue for the entire German market but the fact that outgoing calls were so expensive was due to the fact that the costs of offering free incoming calls had to be recovered elsewhere.