Pre-pay phones for skiing

[Martin Hicks]

I bought a "mucho talk a lot" card or something when I was there this
summer.  Same idea as what Arnd found.

The rates to the rest of the world were cheap  (0.09CHF to canada, I
seem to recall), but the rates within switzerland were more like
0.40/min

mh

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>
>> Anthony and I were just chatting to Anthony about cell phones for the
>> ski trip.
>>
>> I checked with Swisscom and they offer pre-paid phones, with a SIM card
>> and CHF 10 in credit for CHF 49. Normally they charge CHF 40 for the SIM
>> card itself, so it's not a bad deal.
>
> Not sure if Orange works up in the mountains, but CHF 40 still seems a lot.
> Orange has CHF 5 SIM cards with CHF 10 balance included:
>
> http://shop.orange.ch/en/subscriptions+prepay/prepay/icat/prepayplans/
>
> They advertise 'calls to Europe and the USA at the Swiss local rate',
> which probably makes it very interesting to most visitors. They also
> have CHF 9,- phones for the poor folks on Verizon/Sprint.
>
> For people that have a SIM-lock on their phones, I can recommend
> http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12167 .
>
>        Arnd
>
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