Germany and France

wco81 · 17-06-2007, 22:29

I was thinking of getting Aldi Talk (medionmobile.de). The site doesn't have English pages so it seems the only way to buy is once I'm in Germany.

On the billing, I'm confused by the terminology. In the Germany pages, they talk about billing and have notations like 1/1 or 60/30. But in the France pages, they refer to a "Debiting Method" which I assume is the same thing?

And I'm guessing that 60/60 denotes billing per second? So if you do have a 75 second call, you get billed for 75 seconds, not 2 minutes?

I see that you collect a lot of country and international SIMs. Which works better for you? What did you think of E-Plus or Aldi? They're the cheapest around but perhaps their network wasn't up to snuff? Have you sed a prepaid in France?

Finally, are there any reasonable postpaid plans for UMTS at all? Lot of people are saying the iPhone won't fly in Europe without 3G. Yet if the UMTS charges for prepaid is indicative of UMTS pricing, can anyone be using a lot of data on the go?

snaimon · 17-06-2007, 23:00

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Originally Posted by wco81

I was thinking of getting Aldi Talk (medionmobile.de). The site doesn't have English pages so it seems the only way to buy is once I'm in Germany.

On the billing, I'm confused by the terminology. In the Germany pages, they talk about billing and have notations like 1/1 or 60/30. But in the France pages, they refer to a "Debiting Method" which I assume is the same thing?

And I'm guessing that 60/60 denotes billing per second? So if you do have a 75 second call, you get billed for 75 seconds, not 2 minutes?

Aldi Talk. Yes, only there and in Aldi stores.
Debiting same as billing. The first # is for the first minute and is in seconds. The second # is for subsequent minutes and also in seconds.
So with 60/60 the 75 second call is indeed billed as 2 minutes.

You can buy SIMYO or SUNSIM, among others, online in advance SHIPPED TO A GERMAN address like a hotel. You will know your # in advance.

If there will be more trips to other locations, the international SIM may be better IN THE LONG RUN (meaning next trips). I think the local SIMs may be the way to go if it will be just this once or just this once for quite some time. Of course I don't believe any of the internationals have UMTS service yet.

Bon voyage.

Stan

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wco81 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 304 Join Date: 17 Jun 2007 Country:	17-06-2007, 22:29 I was thinking of getting Aldi Talk (medionmobile.de). The site doesn't have English pages so it seems the only way to buy is once I'm in Germany. On the billing, I'm confused by the terminology. In the Germany pages, they talk about billing and have notations like 1/1 or 60/30. But in the France pages, they refer to a "Debiting Method" which I assume is the same thing? And I'm guessing that 60/60 denotes billing per second? So if you do have a 75 second call, you get billed for 75 seconds, not 2 minutes? I see that you collect a lot of country and international SIMs. Which works better for you? What did you think of E-Plus or Aldi? They're the cheapest around but perhaps their network wasn't up to snuff? Have you sed a prepaid in France? Finally, are there any reasonable postpaid plans for UMTS at all? Lot of people are saying the iPhone won't fly in Europe without 3G. Yet if the UMTS charges for prepaid is indicative of UMTS pricing, can anyone be using a lot of data on the go?