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Originally Posted by peterdoo
As far as I know, the limitation is only valid for German geographic numbers. It should be no problem for anybody to get a German prepaid mobile number including a voice mail.
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Sure, there's no legal hurdle when issuing mobile numbers to foreigners but according to international's
other recent thread he wants to evade roaming fees for incoming calls which are less than € 0.09/min. As listening to voice mail of a German SIM card from abroad is more expensive, this is probably no alternative for him.
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Maintaining a German SIM normally costs about 15 euros per year.
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Afaik you can keep a Fonic or Lidl SIM active for even less as any action subject to charge (outbound call, SMS etc) extends its validiy period of 12 months.
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There are also various VoIP providers outside of Germany offering German geographic numbers starting from about 2 euros per month. Some of them without a requirement for address in Germany (try netelip.com,...).
If it is only for a limited user group, you could get a free German geographic number at rebtel.com and forward it for a moderate per minute cost to your existing voice mail.
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That of course incurs the risk of the numbers getting seized if the regulatory authority learns about this practice and I can tell for sure that they definitely don't tolerate any illegal number assigments to users without a geographic relation to the relevant area.