[Idyllchat] Jay Cloidt - Re Swiss SIM Card?

[Jay Cloidt]

Oh, and one very important thing I forgot. In most European countries, you
do not pay for incoming cell phone calls. You only pay for the calls you
make. I love that, and I always thought it was a scam that the American
companies were charging you for receiving calls.

  - Jay

On Jan 11, 2008 3:04 PM, Jay Cloidt <jayclimbs at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 mailbox GratisSMS0.10 / 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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