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[bourbonkiller]

I am not going to answer each of your detailed picks, since it's simply not worth battling here. It's not my interrest to fight with you. We have all waited so long for such a Multi-National Data-Roaming offer and it seems, most of you simply make it bad, based on personal flavours.

You are seriously right, that the whole consideration on my side is based (as yours) on my personal needs and it is unfavourable to use the Toggle card outside the Toggle Countries. You can compare it at least with 3 AT old "Roam like home" - if the countries included fit your usage, it's a very good offer.

In my oppinion it's still unfair to compare other billing cycles with each other. You ask me to justify the longer billing cycle. It's not about justifying it, it's just my persuasion that you have to compare the same against it. 100 MB a day is like 1 GB a month. The AVERAGE consumer doesn't need it at all. My average data roaming on my mobile with emails, messenger etc. is 120 - 150 MB a month. If you read the review of the aldi talk sim roaming package on teltarif, they state that there is no exact notification when your data volume is empty. Also there is a break between the packages if you are going to reorder one. In between, data will be billed at usual roaming prices.

If you know you are going to use a high amount of data, to my personal flavour its favouarable to have a higher fixed amount of roaming data on a longer period. Based on MY preferences I travel via Zurich Airport to Germany, Spain or Switzerland or even visit clients in Norway. Toggle covers all of my travel destinations. I live in Austria, but have 3G Swisscom/Toggle coverage at home. If I decide to book 1 GB of data within 30 days I know that I can use it in all countries I visit. It could be used within a day, a week (with no breaks in between packages to be renewed) or at least 30 days.

To close this discussion and answer your last question regarding comparion of different offers with another question: If you want to buy a car, lets say a Golf IV, and you find a offer in the newspaper. Are you going to compare that offer for the Golf with other offers for a Golf or do you compare it with Alfa Romeo, Renault, Citroen and Toyota - if you want to buy a Golf? (Golf stands here for the 1 GB package)

[Donal]

Originally Posted by bourbonkiller

If you read the review of the aldi talk sim roaming package on teltarif, they state that there is no exact notification when your data volume is empty. Also there is a break between the packages if you are going to reorder one. In between, data will be billed at usual roaming prices.

Bourbonkiller may have a very valid point here. My experience of activating a new AldiTalk sim in Germany, is that after you initially book an AldiTalk option, you are informed that it may take up to 6 hours for the newly-booked option to become active. I don't know how long you have to wait when you book one of the EU-Options.

Perhaps people can book the EU-DataOption in different countries and tell us how long they have to wait before the option is activated.

[Donal]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

Anyway my warmest congratulations to your high age especially that you are still using a computer!

Thank you! How kind of you. I look younger than I really am.

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[inquisitor]

Originally Posted by Donal

Bourbonkiller may have a very valid point here. My experience of activating a new AldiTalk sim in Germany, is that after you initially book an AldiTalk option, you are informed that it may take up to 6 hours for the newly-booked option to become active. I don't know how long you have to wait when you book one of the EU-Options.

Having ordered AldiTalk's EU Internet Paket 150 four times during the last week while I was staying in Austria and Hungary, I can report from my own experience that the text message informing you of your allowance being used up arrives within seconds. After that it took 5-15 minutes before I could re-order the next pack. Although I left mobile data activated during these gaps, the costs amounted to a few cents each time (billed at € 0.23/MB). That's indeed inconvenient but automatically recurring subscribtion may become available soon.
In comparison with toggle I would have been billed some € 125 for 150MB in Austria or Hungary.

[bourbonkiller]

It seems, you still don't get the point. Toggle is a Multi-National Data offer, not a EU roaming package. Austria is not even included in their offer, what happens if you take your Aldi-Talk SIM to the US? You pay 99 Eurocent per MB - no package avaiable. But that's kind of irrelevant here...

Some of us are not german based as you are, so to us Germany is roaming country. Again, with focus on the Toggle offer this might not attract YOU. If I travel to Germany with the Aldi Sim, that's not roaming - it's domestic. I will have to order a german domestic data package as well, costing me additionally 6 to 10 Euros, depending on the offer of choice.

Toggle - for those of us who really can use it, is a great offer. It's even valid in their domestic market UK (something Aldi doesn't offer). And it is clear to me, that the Toggle offer doesn't attract you because Germany is no roaming country for you! But still - the value is clear to anyone that NEEDS that amout of data, in countries included.

I think we should stop here, I am quite happy to discuss any Aldi Talk related topics over in the Aldi Talk Forum and will join the Nokia 630 Dual Sim discussion as well, since I own that handset. It may be of no surprise, which two Simcards are in that handset?!

BK

[Donal]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

Having ordered AldiTalk's EU Internet Paket 150 four times during the last week while I was staying in Austria and Hungary, I can report from my own experience that the text message informing you of your allowance being used up arrives within seconds. After that it took 5-15 minutes before I could re-order the next pack. Although I left mobile data activated during these gaps, the costs amounted to a few cents each time (billed at € 0.23/MB). That's indeed inconvenient but automatically recurring subscribtion may become available soon.
In comparison with toggle I would have been billed some € 125 for 150MB in Austria or Hungary.

Other people may not be as fortunate as you when they try to rebook their AldiTalk "EU data paket" option.

Teltarif report that there was a delay of two-and-a-half hours before they could renew their "EU data paket".

http://mobil.teltarif.de/aldi-talk-r...74.html?page=3

[ChrisNeedsToKnow]

Some feedback on tariffs:

Bulgaria/Romania: Incoming advertised on website at 4p/min, however SMS sais it´s free. Effectively it was free.

Serbia: Crazy prices (incoming 213p/min), didn´t even try. At least the SMS said the same as the website.

Lebanon: 96p/min advertised for incoming, however the SIM doesn´t register in any of the two available networks.

So far the SMS always said what is also effectively charged - it just differs from the website.

Tomorrow I´ll check Cyprus

[bourbonkiller]

I've just returned from a multi country trip to Switzerland, Spain and Germany and have tested the new data package from togglemobile UK.

I must say, it's been a fantastic experience with no lags, no coverage holes and no service interruption (like I get sometimes on my old orange AT/3AT contract).

Coverage on holiday vacation in Mallorca was great, roaming on MOVISTAR gave me mostly H / H+ and rarely only 3G. I noticed the before mentioned lag of about 4 seconds on calls, not shure if it's been only on incoming calls that have been routed to the german mobile number through localphone (subscription).

In Switzerland, coverage is exceptional with Swisscom, specially along the rail tracks and even smaller villages. Surfed the web during my train ride from lake constance to Basel airport with no outages. Even tethering to my windows tablet worked well! There is no lag on the Swisscom network for phonecalls!

This weekend I've been to Berlin and Köpenick, roaming on the vodafone network. Data worked like a charm (H+), also NO lags when calling back home to Austria or Liechtenstein.

One big plus for me is the "native local" nature of Togglemobile Sim. I haven't experienced any blocks on ports. The most annoying thing for me on my austrian orange/3 contract is, that "whatsapp" for some reason don't work with several roaming providers (specially when going into Germany). It stops working when roaming and gets back "on" when getting into the home network.

With togglemobile I had not problems neither with "whatsapp" nor with the Blackberry Messenger in all countries I've visited.

Thumbs up for this offer, it works great! Since my Samsung ATIV S doesn't support LTE, I couldn't test availability of LTE services in these networks. Maybe someone else can test this?

BK

[inquisitor]

Originally Posted by bourbonkiller

Since my Samsung ATIV S doesn't support LTE, I couldn't test availability of LTE services in these networks. Maybe someone else can test this?

I haven't heard of any European full MVNO to offer LTE and I doubt they will do so before VoLTE has been deployed because it involves significant capex while such LTE implementation will require substantial modifications once MNOs launch VoLTE instead of CSFB. Not to mention that MNOs are still trying to sell LTE at a premium so they will hardly admit cannibals like Lycamobile to their LTE networks at this time.