Simyo DE cuts international calling rates

Motel75 · **Simyo DE cuts international calling rates -** 19-11-2009, 20:32

It's about time - they've dropped the call rates from the previous EUR 1.84/min to 12 cents (landline to Morth America and Europe) and 29 cents (mobile Europe). It's not as cheap as Solomo or Fonic, but hopefully it's the start of a trend.

simyo - Aktionsseite > Preissenkung > Telefonieren ins Ausland

FWIW, the 1.84-1.99/min price charged by the major operators has remained unchanged since the introduction of prepaid in 1996 (3.99 DM = 1.84 EUR - most operators in fact raised the price after the euro was introduced, to 1.99) even though times have changed since then - at the time Deutsche Telekom had an expensive landline monopoly, and international calls were based on 23 pfennig (12 cents) units depending on the distance of the target country. A unit to Argentina or Australia lasted 5.33 seconds. This was abolished in 1998, and prices dropped dramatically, but not for mobile users, especially not prepaid users.

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Motel75 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 573 Join Date: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Berlin Country:	Simyo DE cuts international calling rates - 19-11-2009, 20:32 It's about time - they've dropped the call rates from the previous EUR 1.84/min to 12 cents (landline to Morth America and Europe) and 29 cents (mobile Europe). It's not as cheap as Solomo or Fonic, but hopefully it's the start of a trend. simyo - Aktionsseite > Preissenkung > Telefonieren ins Ausland FWIW, the 1.84-1.99/min price charged by the major operators has remained unchanged since the introduction of prepaid in 1996 (3.99 DM = 1.84 EUR - most operators in fact raised the price after the euro was introduced, to 1.99) even though times have changed since then - at the time Deutsche Telekom had an expensive landline monopoly, and international calls were based on 23 pfennig (12 cents) units depending on the distance of the target country. A unit to Argentina or Australia lasted 5.33 seconds. This was abolished in 1998, and prices dropped dramatically, but not for mobile users, especially not prepaid users. Current DE: Vodafone, Netzklub; PL: Klucz, Virgin; UK: Giffgaff, Vodafone; US: T-Mobile; CA: 7-Eleven; IT: Vodafone; UA: Kyivstar; FR: Bouygues; GR: Vodafone Former DE: Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2, Blauworld, 01051mobile, Solomo, Lycamobile, Simyo, Congstar, Fonic, Edeka Mobile, Lidl Mobile; PL: Heyah, Era, Virgin, Sami Swoi, Orange, POP, iPlus, Carrefour Mova, Telepin Mobi, Play, Lycamobile, T-Mobile; UK: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Virgin; US: T-Mobile, AT&T, Lycamobile; CZ: Vodafone, Oskar; ES: Lebara; GR: Vodafone, Wind; UA: Vodafone; IL: Orange; TR: Turkcell