[Idyllchat] Jay Cloidt - Re Swiss SIM Card?

[Jay Cloidt]

We purchased Sunrise SIM cards in the Sunrise store in the Zurich airport. I
believe it was 40CHF for the 2 SIMS and they came with 15CHF credit. Sunrise
is a Swiss company who only seems to be in Switzerland competing against
SwissComm. Orange is just breaking into Switzerland and their coverage map
was not very encouraging with regards to the Berner Oberland or I probably
would have gone with them. None of the other big European wireless companies
(Vodafone, O2, etc.) seem to be in Switzerland, though if you had one you
could probably roam there no problem. We went to Italy and were roaming on 2
different Italian networks (iWind and TIM) with no difficulties. Sunrise and
SwissComm both have very good coverage throughout Switzerland.

The problem with prepaids is that the minutes can expire depending on the
company and plan. All together we had 3 people with working cell phones
which was convenient when we split up. There was almost always one phone in
each group.

One of the reasons I would have picked Orange over the Swiss companies is
that it would be easier to top off the minutes in say the UK if I was going
there. I believe I can do it through the internet though, so I only have to
pay at the roaming rates which is like 0.65CHF per minute, and I have to
dial everything using the international access + country code.

I forget what Orange does if you use a Swiss SIM in the UK. They might
consider it roaming anyway.

Sunrise has a phone number you can call to get information in English. Their
online store is only in German, French, and Italian. For example, I got
these rates in Italian:
Tariffe valide in Svizzera Rete fissa e rete Sunrise Mobile0.25 / min.Altre
reti0.45 / min.Ascolto Sunrise mailboxGratisSMS0.10 / SMSMMS0.50 / MMSInternet
mobile0.10 / 20 KB
This means it is 0.25/min on the Sunrise network and 0.45 / min. on other
networks.
Listening to Voice mail is free. It is 0.10 per text message, 0.50 for
multimedia messaging, and 0.10 per 20Kb when surfing the web.



On Jan 11, 2008 1:51 PM, Ed Comer <remocmail-travel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jay Cloidt, you mentioned "While in Switzerland, my wife and I has
> local SIM's for our phone ".
>
> Where did you purchase your SIMs? I assume that you purchased prepaid
> SIMs. In any case, please explain where obtained, type of service, cost,
> etc.
>
> Thanks.
> Ed Comer
>
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