Blau (Germany) and Simyo (Netherlands): little update

petkow · 05-04-2010, 11:18

This thing with international SMS being cheaper when roaming is a funny business. (The same is often true of calls as well). I find it so stupid that for example Vodafone Spain charge 69c for an SMS sent to the UK from their own network in Spain, but if you happen to live near the border to Portugal and pick up a mobile phone signal from there then that same message will cost you just 13c!

So in the Netherlands, if you happen to live near the border with Germany or Belgium, it is worth switching over onto a foreign network if you plan on sending lots of international SMS's. I suppose in some areas, you get a choice of 3 countries mobile phone networks. (e.g. Aachen in Germany, or Basel in Switzerland)

Hank C Burnette · 05-04-2010, 12:28

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Originally Posted by petkow

This thing with international SMS being cheaper when roaming is a funny business...

Indeed, luckily i'm not sending international SMS on a daily basis (and i can send cheap SMS via Skype) but some choices are quite funny.

One example: T-Mobile NL charges a international sms 7 ct. if you got a prepaid (the 24/7 tariff) but if you got a postpaid the price raise to 24 ct.

[Add-on for my first post: Simyo allows also MMS at 50 ct. per message]

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	05-04-2010, 11:18 This thing with international SMS being cheaper when roaming is a funny business. (The same is often true of calls as well). I find it so stupid that for example Vodafone Spain charge 69c for an SMS sent to the UK from their own network in Spain, but if you happen to live near the border to Portugal and pick up a mobile phone signal from there then that same message will cost you just 13c! So in the Netherlands, if you happen to live near the border with Germany or Belgium, it is worth switching over onto a foreign network if you plan on sending lots of international SMS's. I suppose in some areas, you get a choice of 3 countries mobile phone networks. (e.g. Aachen in Germany, or Basel in Switzerland)