Germany's Mvno List Grows

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Originally Posted by MATHA531

Well high international rates are what keep Enlinea and callbackworld in business...and another important question I always have with any sim is

As well as direct dial or calling cards businesses ... Yes, I know all this but here I wonder why there is no effect of competition on imternational rates from German sims...

Originally Posted by MATHA531

1. The ability to set voice menus (as opposed to phone menus) to English, one of the reason, despite the higher rates, I keep my Vodafone DE sim...

Yes, it's very important and I don't think it's very expensive for service providers to add such a feature. But I think that the reason of implementing voice prompts in local language(s) only may be very simple - to discourage foreigners from buying such a SIM and to rip off them on roaming.

Originally Posted by MATHA531

2. The ability to make calls into long distance cards...of course with lower internal rates that makes this a very desirable way to make international calls....

You mean issues like e.g. restricted availability and costs of 00800 numbers in Poland what I said about in http://www.prepaidgsm.net/forum/index.php?showforum=5 ?

OT. The two issues you mentioned are not satisfied by any prepaid SIM in Poland . 00800 and (some, not all) 0800 numbers can be accessed from Orange SIMs only.
But Polish Orange prepaid SIMs have voice prompts in Polish only (but before rebranding they had - in English and German!). And voice menus are the only way to turn on/off voicemail and CLIR. Prompts in VM can be set to English anyway, but it requires registering the SIM on the Polish-only website, and can be done only through this website! :P