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[inquisitor]

Minutel is interesting, but their website says calls are billed by full minutes ("Taktung minutengenau"). Also international calls are quite expensive, costing € 0,49/min even to neighbouring countries. Their comparably cheap domestic rates are offset by the billing in full minutes.
Their only innovative features beyond the versatile recharge options are the free call diversions to landlines in the following countries:
France, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithunia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands.

Actually, in this thread I'm focussing on visitors to Germany, who seek to call home at reaseonable international rates. So from that point of view Minutel isn't really an option.

[Evan]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

Minutel is interesting, but their website says calls are billed by full minutes ("Taktung minutengenau"). Also international calls are quite expensive, costing € 0,49/min even to neighbouring countries. Their comparably cheap domestic rates are offset by the billing in full minutes.

Actually, in this thread I'm focussing on visitors to Germany, who seek to call home at reaseonable international rates. So from that point of view Minutel isn't really an option.

Minutel is certainly an option for international visitors. My mistake, that I didn't write on my previous post that the prices I mentioned are for the "plus" calling plan.

Minutel offers two plans just like Solomo. The "simple" Minutel plan and the Minutel Plus (similar to Solomo Pro).

You are probably referring to Minutel and not the Minutel Plus plan. The "simple" Minutel plan has the rates and conditions you've mentioned but the Minutel Plus offers similar prices with Solomo Pro and Fonic, as I already mentioned. E.g.

- Billing increments are per second (Taktung: sekundengenau)
- National landlines: 0,079 €
- National mobiles: 0,099 €
- International landlines (EU): 0,089 €
- International Mobiles (EU): 0,289 €
- SMS: 0,129 €

http://www.minutel.de/plus/static/tariffs

All the above rates are cheaper than Solomo Pro (except for National landlines), albeit only very slightly cheaper. But they become significantly cheaper than Solomo, given that Minutel Plus charges per second from the first second, especially for German visitors who call international mobiles (given that the majority of mobile calls last less than 1 minute). For example, a 10-second call to an EU mobile number, will be charged with Solomo Pro or Fonic 29 cents while with Minutel Plus will be charged 4.8 cents.