Germany Mobile Market - Discounters

[snaimon]

From Teltarif today, March 25, 2006

simyo: Vorl?ufig Ende der Fahnenstange bei Discount-Preisen

Bereits eine Million Discount-Kunden in Deutschland 25.03.2006
15:01

Das Telefonieren mit dem Handy wird nach Einsch?tzung des Discount-Anbieters simyo so schnell nicht mehr billiger.

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"According to MVNO discounter SIMYO (E+) tarifs for mobile phones in Germany will not be rapidly declining any time soon................."

I think this can be seen in connection with another report about the failure of Lidl to enter the market reported & discussed earlier on this forum.

Teltarif has recently quoted the T-MO boss as stating that mobile prices would be falling. They have apparently introduced some new postpaid tarifs that are a bit less pricey. I don't see a contradiction as T-Mo is NOT a discounter and they need to throw out a bone or two to retain their clients. In their PREPAID offers they SEEM to have a nasty way of thowing the bone (NON-STOP and 5 e-cents network internal rates) and then letting those rates expire. I suspect that was a tactic to keep their subscriber #s up. I think the similar offer from Voda PREPAID will also expire soon.

There has been some discussion today on Teltarif about some folks dumping their current providers and switching to SIMYO for substantial savings. APPARENTLY, the discounters have not yet hurt the biggies too much.

Stan